Lewis J. Smith, MD, is professor of Medicine and associate vice president for Research. He has been on the faculty at NU since 1979, serving as division chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine and associate director for Education and Training in the Office of Clinical Research and Training. He established and continues to direct the MSCI degree program. His current research interest is airway diseases and the role of nutrition in asthma. He is principal investigator of the American Lung Association’s Asthma Clinical Research Center (ACRC) in Illinois, now in its eighth year, and he is principal investigator or co-investigator on several NIH-supported multi-center studies including Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) and Multiethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). He chairs the Pulmonary Committee of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)-funded CARDIA study. He has mentored several students in the MSCI program and teaches one MSCI course, Drug Development, and co-teaches another, Ethical Issues in Clinical Research.

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