Jodi M. Smith, MD, MPH

Jodi M. Smith, MD, MPH, is an attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Dr. Smith is a graduate of McGill University Medical School and Pediatric Residency. She graduated from the Seattle Children’s nephrology fellowship program with a MPH degree in 2002. She is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and an Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. She is the Medical Director of the Kidney Transplant Program at Seattle Children’s Hospital and the Medical Director of the Research Integration Hub of the Seattle Children’s Research Institute. She is the current President of the American Society of Pediatric Nephrology. Dr. Smith is on the Board of Directors of the North American Pediatric Renal Trials and Collaborative Studies and is the Senior Staff for Pediatrics for the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. In addition, she serves as an Associate Editor for the journal Pediatric Transplantation. Her research focuses on improving kidney transplant outcomes in the pediatric transplant population through the study of viral complications, development of alloimunity, and organ allocation policy.