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Joyce A. Smith, PhD, RN, ANP
Joyce A. Smith, PhD, RN, ANP

Bio

Joyce Smith came to the University of Rochester School of Nursing in 2005 as a graduate student in the MS-PhD program. During her PhD program, she received a SPICE (Supporting Providers in Comparative Effectiveness) Fellowship and received the Rochester Academy of Medicine Community and Preventive Medicine Award in Honor of Dr. Robert L. Berg for her original paper entitled "Lead Poisoning in Children: Still an Issue?"

Prior to her career in nursing, Joyce attained a bachelor's in biology and psychology and a master's degree in computer science. She worked in biomedical research for 25 years, initially at the Kennedy-Krieger Institute where she was involved with researching lead poisoning in children, then at the University of MD Shock Trauma Center where she worked researching hypovolemic shock and sepsis. She then went to the New Jersey Trauma Center, where she studied motor vehicle crash injuries.

Upon completing her PhD in 2013, Smith joined the faculty at the School of Nursing and uses her basic science, nursing, and computer skills to support other nurse researchers. Her expertise lies in research using existing data, large data sets, SAS statistical programming, and medical claims analysis.



Professional Experience
Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing, University of Rochester School of Nursing, Rochester, NY, . 8/2013 - Current

Sr. Information Analyst, University of Rochester School of Nursing (research facilitation), Rochester, NY, . 9/2006 - 8/2013

staff RN, Strong Memorial Hospital (flex team med-surg), Rochester, NY, . 6/2005 - 9/2006

Research Associate, UMDNJ (NJ Trauma Center), Newark, NJ, . 6/1993 - 5/2005

Research Associate, University of MD/MIEMSS (Trauma Research), Baltimore, MD, . 7/1985 - 6/1993

Laboratory Technician, Kennedy-Krieger Institute (Pediatric Lead Poisoning Research), Baltimore, MD, . 10/1980 - 7/1985

Awards
Service Award
Sigma Theta Tau, 2013

Supporting Providers in Comparative Effectiveness Fellowship
CTSI/SPICE, 2011

Community and Preventive Medicine Award in Honor of Dr. Robert L. Berg for original paper entitled “Lead Poisoning in Children: Still an Issue?"
Rochester Academy of Medicine, 2009

Presentations
The Impact of Smoking on Probability and Amount of Opioids Prescribed for Low Back Pain
26th Annual ENRS Scientific Sessions, ENRS, 2014
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A Revision of the Family Role Rewards Scale
Collier Research Day, University of Rochester, 2009
Rochester, New York

Spine and Spinal Cord Injury in Motor Vehicle Crashes: A Function of Change in Velocity and Energy Dissipation on Impact With respect to the Direction of Crash
Safety 2004, 2004
Vienna, Austria

TNF Enhances the Skeletal Muscle Metaboli Response to Systemic Inflammation
13th Annual Conference on Shock, 1990
Durango, Colorado

Publications
Holland, M. L., Groth, S. W., Smith, J. A., Meng, Y., & Kitzman, H. (2018). Low birthweight in second children after nurse home visiting. Journal of Perinatology. PMID: 30214029 DOI: 10.1038/s41372-018-0222-8

Meng, Y., Groth, S.W., stewart, P. & Smith, J.A. (2017). An exploration of the determinants of gestational weight gain in African American women: Genetic factors and energy expenditure. Biological Research for Nursing.

Smith, J.A., Fuino, R.L., Pesis-Katz, I., Cai, X., Powers, B., Frazer, M., Markman, J.D. (2017). Differences in opiod prescribing in low back pain patients with and witout depression: A cross-sectional study of national samp from the United States. PAIN Reports, Latest Articles. DOI: 10.1097/pr9.0000000000000606

Groth, S.W., Holland, M.L., Smith, J.A.m Meng, Y., Kitzman, H. (2017). Adolescent Gestational Weight Gain, Prepregnanct BMI Percentile and Offspring Outcomes at Age 18. Journal of Adolescent Health. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.05.005

Groth, S.W., Holland, M.L., Smith, J.A., Meng, Y., Kitzman, H. (2017). Effects Gestational Weight Gain and Prepregnancy Body Mass Index in Adolescent Mothers on Weight and Body Mass Index of Adolescent Offspring. J Adolesc Health. DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.05.005

Enoch M.A., Kitzman H., Smith J.A., Anson E., Hodgkinson C.A., Goldman D., & Olds D.L. (2016). A prospective cohort study of influences on internalizing and externalizing behaviors across childhood.. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 55 (5), 376-382.

Lowey, S.E., Smith, J.A., Xue, Y., Powers, B.A. (2015). Opioid use in the last year of life among Medicare beneficiaries with advanced illnesses: A retrospective cohort study. Journal of Hospice and Palliative Nursing, 17 (3), 242-248. DOI: 10.1097/NJH.0000000000000155

Olds, D.L, Kitzman, H., Knudtson, M.D., Anson, E., Smith, J.A., and Cole, R. (2014). Reduced maternal and child mortality following home visiting by nurses: Results of a two-decade follow-up of a randomized controlled trial. JAMA Pediatrics, 168 (9), 800-806.

Herendeen, P.A., Blevins, R., Anson, E., and Smith, J. (2014). Barriers to and consequences of mandated reporting of child abuse by nurse practitioners. Journal of Pediatric Healthcare, 28 (1), e1-e7.

Belwadi, A., Siegel, J.H., Singh, A., Smith, J.A., Yang, K.H, & King, A.I. (2012). Finite element aortic injury reconstruction of near side lateral impacts using real world crash data. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 134 (1), 11006.

Smith, J.A., Wilde, M., & Brasch, J. (2012). Internet recruitment and retention for a 6 months longitudinal study. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 44 (2), 165-170.

Belwadi, A., Siegel, J.H., Singh, A., Smith, J.A., Yang, K.H, & King, A.I. (2012). Finite element aortic injury reconstruction of near side lateral impacts using real world crash data. Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 134 (1), 0011006.

Xue, Y., Smith, J., Freund, D.A., and Aiken, L.H. (2012). Supplemental nurses are just as educated, slightly less experienced, and more diverse compared to permanent nurses. Health Affairs, 31 (11), 2510-2517.

Siegel, J.H., Belwadi, A., Smith, J.A., Shah, C., and Yang, K. (2010). Analysis of the mechanism of lateral impact aortic isthmus disruption in real-life motor vehicle crashes using a computer-based finite element numeric model with simulation of prevention strategies. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 68 (6), 1375-1395.

Siegel, J.H., Yang, K.H., Smith, J.A., Siddiqi, S.Q., Shah, C., Maddali, M., and Hardy, W. (2006). Computer simulation and validation of the Archimedes lever hypothesis as a mechanism for aortic isthmus disruption in a case of lateral impact motor vehicle crash: a Crash Injury Research Engineering Network (CIREN) study. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 60 (5), 1072-1082.

Smith, J.A., Siegel, J.H., and Siddiqi, S.Q. (2005). Spine and spinal cord injury in motor vehicle crashes: A function of change in velocity and energy dissipation on impact with respect to the direction of crash. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 59 (1), 117-131.

Siegel, J.H., Smith, J.A., and Siddiqi, S.Q. (2004). Change in velocity and energy dissipation on impact in motor vehicle crashes as a function of the direction of crash: Key Factors in the production of thoracic aortic injuries, their pattern of associated injuries and patient survival. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 57 (4), 760-778.

Siegel, J.H., Fabian, M., Smith, J.A., Kingston, E.P., Steele, K.A., and Wells, M.R. (2003). Oxygen debt criteria quantify the effectiveness of early partial resuscitation after hypovolemic hemorrhagic shock. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 54 (5), 862-880.

Siegel, J.H., Smith, J.A., Tenenbaum, N., McCammon, L, Siddiqi, S., Presswalla, B., Pierre-Louis, P., Williams, A.W., Zaretski, L.L., Hutchins, K.D., Perez, L., Shaikh, J., and Natarajan, G. (2002). Deceleration energy and change in velocity on impact: Key factors in fatal versus potentially survivable motor vehicle crash (MVC) aortic injuries (AI): The role of associated injuries as determinants of outcome. Annual Proceedings/Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, 46, 315-338.

Siegel, J.H., Fabian, M., Smith, J.A., and Costantino, D. (1997). The use of recombinant hemoglobin solution in reversing lethal hemorrhagic hypovolemic oxygen debt shock. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 42 (2), 199-212.

Vary, T.C., Siegel, J.H., Tall, B.D., Morris, J.G., and Smith, J.A. (1988). Inhibition of skeletal muscle protein synthesis in septic intra-abdominal abscess. Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care, 28 (7), 981-988.