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Office
701 Park Ave
ER-R2
Minneapolis, MN 55415Phone+1 612-873-5683
Summary
- Stephen W. Smith, M.D.
[Twitter (@smithECGBlog)
Dr. Smith has been on the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare since 1991,and full Professor of Emergency Medicine since 2014, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He has published widely in Emergency Cardiac Care, including dozens of articles on use of
troponin for rule out of acute MI, but especially on the ECG in Acute MI, including a 38-chapter book and many other chapters and textbook sections, and over 60 peer-reviewed articles. In 2008, he began writing “Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog,” a free open access site now with over 1600 posts highlighting complex ECG cases, mostly relating to subtle acute coronary occlusion. The blog has 25 million pageviews from readers around the world. His ECG insights are sufficiently novel and cutting edge that his site has over 50,000 Twitter followers and over 350,000 Facebook followers. Since 2014, he has been lecturing on the “False STEMI / NonSTEMI Dichotomy,” and in 2018, he and colleagues introduced the Occlusion MI paradigm as its replacement. In promoting this new paradigm, he gave the Annual Keynote “Rijlant” Lecture at
the 2021 International Society of Electrocardiology, the 2022 “Kenichi Harumi” Plenary Address at the International Society of Computers in Electrocardiology, and Grand Rounds all over the world, including at the Mayo Clinic Department of Cardiology. He is now working on training AI systems to diagnose Occlusion MI on the ECG.
He has trained theQueen of Hearts PM Cardio AI App. It is now available in the European Union (CE approved) the App Store and on Google Play. For Americans, you need to wait for the FDA. But in the meantime:
If you want this bot to help you make the early diagnosis of OMI and save your patient and his/her myocardium, you can sign up to get an early beta version of the bot here. It is not yet available, but this is your way to get on the list.
https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/18cAH0ZK0RoiVG3RjC5dYdwfyfsg
Education & Training
- Hennepin HealthcareResidency, Emergency Medicine, 1987 - 1991
- Northwestern University The Feinberg School of MedicineClass of 1987
Certifications & Licensure
- MN State Medical License 1989 - 2025
- American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Fellow (FACEP) American College of Emergency Physicians
Clinical Trials
- Use of Abbott High Sensitivity Troponin I Assay In Acute Coronary Syndromes Start of enrollment: 2014 Feb 01
- Paced Electrocardiogram Requiring Fast Emergent Coronary Therapy (PERFECT) Study Start of enrollment: 2016 Jun 01
- EKG Criteria and Identification of Acute Coronary Occlusion Start of enrollment: 2018 May 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- No false negative paradox in STEMI-NSTEMI diagnosis.José Nunes de Alencar, H Pendell Meyers, Jesse T T McLaren, Stephen W Smith
Heart. 2024-10-10 - Artificial Intelligence Driven Prehospital ECG Interpretation for the Reduction of False Positive Emergent Cardiac Catheterization Lab Activations: A Retrospective Coh...Peter O Baker, Shifa R Karim, Stephen W Smith, H Pendell Meyers, Aaron E Robinson
Prehospital Emergency Care. 2024-09-12 - OMI/NOMI: Time for a New Classification of Acute Myocardial Infarction.Martiola Kola, Naltin Shuka, Harvey Pendell Meyers, Elizana Zaimi Petrela, Stephen W Smith
Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024-09-02
Other
- Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) dependence and withdrawalSmith SW, Zvosec DL
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/gamma-hydroxybutyrate-ghb-dependence-and-withdrawal
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-08-07 - Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) intoxicationSmith SW, Zvosec DL
http://www.uptodate.com/contents/gamma-hydroxybutyrate-ghb-intoxication
UpToDate, Wolters Kluwer Health - 2012-08-07
Authored Content
- Dr. Smith's ECG BlogApril 2021
Press Mentions
- Dear Carolyn: “I Take Issue with the Heart Attack Terms STEMI and NSTEMI”November 21st, 2021
- No Dawdle in Switch to High-Sensitivity TroponinDecember 1st, 2019
- ER Doc: Stay off Electric ScootersSeptember 16th, 2019
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Professional Memberships
- Fellow
Other Languages
- French, German
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