Joseph P. Smith, MD

Bio

Dr. Smith's interests include clinical education, clinical administration, and quality improvement. In all areas of interest, he prioritizes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and seeks out areas to improve health equity. Dr. Smith has been involved in course direction of the Internal Medicine Subinternship at IU School of Medicine since 2017 where he has been involved in curricular development. Additional teaching interests include communication skills training for IU Talk where he trains students, residents, fellows, advanced practice providers, and faculty physicians in communication of difficult news to patients and families. His clinical administrative roles have included prior roles as the Indianapolis VA MICU and RT Medical Director as well as the Section Chief of Pulmonology at Eskenazi Health and current roles as the Section Chief of Critical Care Medicine, Medical Director of Respiratory Care, and the Medical Director of Critical Care - MICU at Eskenazi Health. He also acts as the Co-Chair of the Critical Care Committee and the Physician Lead for Donor Council. In pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion as well as health equity, Dr. Smith has co-created a workshop to train learners in responding to racism, microaggressions, and discrimination, led the overhaul of pulmonary function testing (PFT) at Eskenazi Health and IU Health to race-neutral pulmonary function testing interpretation, published articles on the need to confront racism in Pulmonology as well as a national survey of PFT interpretation practices after guidelines recommended race-neutral PFT interpretation, and has been a member of both the AAIM DEI Advisory Group and AAIM DEI Taskforce.