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Robert C. Smith is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research centers on medicine, with a specific focus on cardiology and cardiovascular medicine, general health professions, surgery, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and psychiatry and mental health.

The topics most frequently addressed in their work include:

  • Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments
  • Cardiac pacing and defibrillation studies
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
  • Empathy and Medical Education
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Surgical Simulation and Training

Recent published papers associated with or relevant to the broader research context include:

  • Making the biopsychosocial model more scientific-its general and specific models, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Archway Phase 3 Trial of the Port Delivery System with Ranibizumab for Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration 2-Year Results, 2023, Ophthalmology
  • A Novel Expert Coaching Model in Urology, Aimed at Accelerating the Learning Curve in Robotic Prostatectomy, 2022, Journal of surgical education
  • Assessing the quality and making appropriate use of historical negative control data: A report of the International Workshop on Genotoxicity Testing (IWGT), 2023, Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis
  • Addressing health inequities for children in immigrant families: Psychologists as leaders and links across systems., 2023, American Psychologist

Frequent collaborators in their scholarly work include:

  • Miles Dalby
  • Rand Wilcox Vanden Berg
  • Jonathan Coleman
  • Behfar Ehdaie
  • Alvin C. Goh

In terms of publication venues, the scientist has substantial contributions in:

  • Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • UNC Libraries
  • American Heart Journal
  • Journal of Thoracic Oncology
  • National Review of Black Politics

Best Publications

  • Validation of the International Restless Legs Syndrome Study Group rating scale for restless legs syndrome

    Jun Horiguchi;Magdolna Hornyak;Ulrich Voderholzer;Meir Kryger

  • Toward a better definition of the restless legs syndrome

    Arthur S. Walters;Michael S. Aldrich;Richard Allen;Sonia Ancoli‐Israel

  • Interventions for providers to promote a patient‐centred approach in clinical consultations

    Francesca Dwamena;Margaret Holmes‐Rovner;Carolyn M Gaulden;Sarah Jorgenson

  • The patient's story: integrating the patient- and physician-centered approaches to interviewing.

    Robert C. Smith;Ruth B. Hoppe

  • The Effectiveness of Intensive Training for Residents in Interviewing: A Randomized, Controlled Study

    Robert C. Smith;Judith S. Lyles;Jennifer Mettler;Bertram E. Stoffelmayr

  • Psychosocial factors are associated with health care seeking rather than diagnosis in irritable bowel syndrome.

    Robert C. Smith;David S. Greenbaum;Jeffery B. Vancouver;Rebecca C. Henry

  • "Tell me about yourself": The patient-centered interview.

    Frederic W. Platt;David L. Gaspar;John L. Coulehan;Lucy Fox

  • An evidence-based patient-centered method makes the biopsychosocial model scientific

    Robert C. Smith;Auguste H. Fortin;Francesca Dwamena;Richard M. Frankel

  • Primary Care Clinicians Treat Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Robert C. Smith;Judith S. Lyles;Joseph C. Gardiner;Corina Sirbu

  • Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on cognition, symptoms, and smoking in schizophrenia: A randomized controlled study.

    Robert C. Smith;Sylvia Boules;Sanela Mattiuz;Mary Youssef

  • Recognition of depression by internists in primary care: a comparison of internist and "gold standard" psychiatric assessments.

    Paul D. Gerber;James Barrett;Jane Barrett;Eric Manheimer

  • Hyperglycemia associated with the use of atypical antipsychotics.

    Jean-Pierre Lindenmayer;Ann-Marie Nathan;Robert C. Smith

  • Patient-Centered Interviewing: An Evidence-Based Method

    Robert C. Smith

  • Exploration of DSM-IV criteria in primary care patients with medically unexplained symptoms.

    Robert C. Smith;Joseph C. Gardiner;Judith S. Lyles;Corina Sirbu

  • Classification and Diagnosis of Patients with Medically Unexplained Symptoms

    Robert C. Smith;Francesca C. Dwamena

  • The relationship of presenting physical complaints to depressive symptoms in primary care patients.

    Paul D. Gerber;James E. Barrett;Jane A. Barrett;Thomas E. Oxman

  • Goodpasture's Syndrome Associated with Influenza A2 Virus Infection

    Curtis B. Wilson;Robert C. Smith

  • Treating patients with medically unexplained symptoms in primary care.

    Robert C. Smith;Catherine Lein;Clare Collins;Judith S. Lyles

  • Gender differences in Manning criteria in the irritable bowel syndrome.

    Robert C. Smith;David S. Greenbaum;Jeffrey B. Vancouver;Rebecca C. Henry

  • A strategy for improving patient satisfaction by the intensive training of residents in psychosocial medicine: a controlled, randomized study.

    R C Smith;J S Lyles;J A Mettler;A A Marshall

  • Evidence-based guidelines for teaching patient-centered interviewing

    Robert C. Smith;Alicia A. Marshall-Dorsey;Gerald G. Osborn;Valerie Shebroe

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Trenkwalder
Claudia Trenkwalder University of Göttingen
Ulrich Voderholzer
Ulrich Voderholzer Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jeffrey B. Vancouver
Jeffrey B. Vancouver Ohio University

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