The Dreyfus Health Foundation of the Rogosin Institute 205 East 64th Street Suite 404 New York, NY 10021, USA Phone: +1 (212) 750 5075 Fax: +1 (212) 371 2776 E-mail: b.smith@thf.org   Barry Smith received his undergraduate education (B.A.) at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Class of 1965; his Ph.D. in Biology/Neurobiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 (where he worked under Professor F.O. Schmitt); and his M.D. from Cornell University Medical College in 1972. He did a surgical internship and a year of general surgery residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City before entering neurosurgical residency at New York Hospital and then Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Awarded a Schering Fellowship from the American College of Surgeons in 1975 for further basic and clinical neuroscience studies, he returned to M.I.T. and the Neurosciences Research Program, where he became Program Director in 1976. In 1978 he moved to the National Institute of Neurological, Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS) at N.I.H. in Bethesda, Maryland, as a Commissioned Officer in the US Public Health Service. He developed a research program in normal and malignant glial cell biology and therapeutics there and became Deputy Chief of Surgical Neurology. After his N.I.H. years (1978-83), Dr. Smith moved to Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, where he continued his research and clinical work in glial cell biology and tumors. He also became Scientific and Medical Director of the Dreyfus Medical Foundation in 1984, and Director of The Health Foundation (now The Dreyfus Health Foundation), a division of The Rogosin Institute at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City in 1988, a position which he holds at present. He is also Professor, Department of Surgery, Cornell University Medical College. Research interests have included molecular mechanisms of the action potential in the squid giant axon, axoplasmic transport in the giant fibers of the cockroach, glial and neuronal trophic factors, normal and abnormal glial cell biology and cancer therapeutics, positron emission tomography, neuroimmunology of central and peripheral nervous system tumors, mechanisms of action of "anticonvulsants" (especially phenytoin) in seizure and non-seizure disorders, and diabetes and diabetic neuropathy. He has also, through The Health Foundation, worked to further the enhancement of basic and clinical science health care problem-solving skills among a variety of health professionals (more than 1500) in some 14 countries around the world. He is the author or co-author of some 100 scientific and clinical papers and has been or is an editor or member of the editorial boards of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1976-82), Neurosurgery (Neuroscience for the Neurosurgeon, 1978-83), the Encyclopedia of Neurosciences (First Edition (1983-1988), Neuroscience Year (1988-92), and the Journal of Neuro-Oncology (1992-present). Dr. Smith is a member of the Society for Neuroscience, the International Brain Research Organization, American Pain Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, New York Academy of Science, International Organization of Psychophysiology, Alpha Omega Alpha, Sigma Xi, the American Medical Association, the Global Health Council, and the American Public Health Association, among others.                Copyright © 2004 Elsevier. All rights reserved.