Associate Professor
Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah
J.D. Smith, PhD is Associate Professor in the University of Utah Intermountain Healthcare Department of Population Health Sciences in the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. He directs the Dissemination and Implementation Science Core (DISC) of the Utah Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute and is MPI and Co-Director of the CIRCL-Chicago Implementation Research Center, funded by NHLBI, that aims to reduce disparities in hypertension control among African Americans on Chicago’s South Side. As an implementation scientist and clinical psychologist, Dr. Smith leads the implementation science activities of projects focused on interventions for obesity, hypertension, cancer prevention and survivorship, mental health, HIV prevention and treatment, and other conditions. He chairs the implementation science working groups of NCI’s IMPACT Consortium and NHLBI’s DECIPHeR Alliance. His research has been supported by the NIH, CDC, AHRQ, HRSA, USDA, and foundations. He serves on a number of national committees and advisory panels on implementation science, and is currently the Associate Editor of the journals Prevention Science and Families, Systems, and Health. He completed his PhD in clinical psychology at the University of Tennessee Knoxville in 2011 followed by a T32 postdoctoral training program at the University of Oregon and a fellowship at Arizona State University. Previously, Dr. Smith was Associate Professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University where he was Associate Director of the NIDA-funded Center for Prevention Implementation Methodology for Drug Abuse and HIV and Co-Director of the CTSA's Program in Dissemination and Implementation Science.
