COVID-19
At AdventHealth our goal is to continue fighting COVID-19 until it is a thing of the past. Ongoing clinical trials and research studies help by contributing knowledge to the fight against COVID-19.
Chief Scientific Officer, Senior Vice President of AdventHealth
Translational Research, Infectious Disease
Dr. Steven R. Smith is Senior Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of AdventHealth guiding the research vision for AdventHealth. Smith also serves as the Associate Center Director, AdventHealth – Moffit Cancer Center Partnership. Smith’s scientific work within the TRI bridges the gap between cell/molecular biology and clinical care. Translational science involves translating discoveries in the basic sciences to the clinic and importantly informing basic science with clinical phenotyping and biospecimens.
Dr. Smith’s research is focused on obesity, diabetes and the metabolic origins of cardiovascular disease. He is specifically focused on how individuals differ in their ability to adapt to diets high in fat and understanding how obesity leads to type 2 diabetes. Using the translational medicine approach, Dr. Smith discovered that many obese people have an inability to burn fat and a new hormonal control system to increase fat and energy metabolism. Most importantly, the discovery that the inability to burn fat is programmed into muscle cells provides a novel way to identify and test new treatments for obesity and diabetes.
In the clinic, Dr. Smith has a special interest in the identification and development of drugs for the treatment of obesity and diabetes. His translational work demonstrated that each person is unique at the molecular level suggesting new ways to match therapies to the individual; this is the goal of field ‘personalized medicine.’
OBESITY SCIENCE & PRACTICE
2021
Obesity
2021
CIRCULATION
2021
JOURNAL OF THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY
2021
DIABETOLOGIA
2021
Obesity
2021
FRONTIERS IN GENETICS
2021
PLOS ONE
2021
Obesity
2021
JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
2021
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX
Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Ochsner Clinic and Hospital, New Orleans, LA
Obesity & Diabetes