NAME: Stephen A. Smith
TITLE: Professor
(BS, MS, DVM, PhD)
AREA OF SPECIALIZATION: Aquatic Medicine/Fish Health
EXTERNAL RESEARCH GRANTS AS A PI OR CO-PI (PAST 3 YEARS):
2002.
Fish and Shellfish Technologies
2002-2003. $434,943.00. 1 year. USDA/CSREES Funds, (PI G. Flick, Co-I
G. Boardman, C. Coale, E.McLean, S. Smith, L. Marsh, S. Craig, G. Eaton and
E. Hallerman).
2002.
Aquaculture Virginia 2002-2003. $93,536.00. 1 year. USDA/CSREES Funds, (PI
G. Flick, Co-I G. Boardman, E.McLean, S. Smith and L. Marsh).
2001.
Determination of dietary requirements and their effects on the immune status for cultured summer flounder.
$24,497.00. 2 years. National Sea
Grant, Marine Aquaculture Initiative. (PI S. Craig, Co-I M. Schwarz and
S.A. Smith).
2001. Immunomodulatory effects of a recominant
mycobacterial vaccine in fish. $18,000, 3 years. Animal Health and Disease
grant, USDA. (PI S.A. Smith, Co-I D. Pasnik and G. Schurig).
2001. Developing horseshoe crab stock assessment
information. $161,000, 2 years.
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation. (PI J. Berkson, Co-I S.A.
Smith).
2001. Pharmacokinetics and tissue residue analysis
of oxytetracycline in summer flounder, Paralichthys
dentatus, maintained at different production salanities. $117,167.00, 2
years. Virginia Sea Grant College Program. , (PI S.A. Smith, Co-I K. Hughes
and R. Duncan).
2001.
Reducing the mortality of horseshoe crabs in the biomedical industrys bleeding
process. $92, 052.00, 2 years. Virginia Sea Grant College Program. , (PI J.
Berkson, Co-I S.A. Smith).
2001. The effects of conventional and alternative
processing operations on the presence and public health significance of Cryptosporidium parvum in eastern
oysters (Crassostrea virginica).
$132, 859.00, 2 years. Virginia Sea Grant College Program. , (PI G. Flick,
Co-I S.A. Smith and D. Lindsay).
2000. Establishment of a horseshoe crab research
center. $62,000, 1 year. ASPIRES,
Virginia Tech. (PI J. Berkson, Co-I S.A. Smith).
2000.
Pharmacokinetics and tissue residue analysis of oxytetracycline in summer
flounder, Paralichthys dentatus,
maintained at different production salanities. $5000.00, 1 year. VMRCVM Bridge
Grant Funding.
2000.
Aquaculture Virginia Project. $93,550.00, 1 year. USDA/CSREES Funds, (PI G.
Flick, Co-I - S. Smith, M. Jahncke, G. Boardman, C. Coale, C. Zipper)
RESEARCH INTEREST:
Research focus has
been on pathology, diagnostics, immunology, vaccine development,
pharmacokenetics, and zoonotic diseases.
ACADEMIC HONORS:
COLLEGE:
Pfizer Animal Health
Award for Research Excellence, VMRCVM (1995, 2002)
NATIONAL:
Have been an invited speaker, session chair and program coordinator for
several national meetings, reviewer for numerous peer-reviewed journals,
represent national aquatic medicine needs on several national committees.
INTERNATIONAL:
Past-President
(2002-2003) of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine,
Executive Editor of the International Journal of Recirculating Aquaculture. Have been an invited speaker at
international meetings in Chile, Japan and Portugal.
NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS:
85+
THREE PUBLICATIONS THAT NOTABLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE FIELD:
S.A. Smith. 2002. Non-lethal clinical techniques used in the
diagnosis of fish diseases. Journal of the American Veterinary Medicine
Association. 220:1203-1206
Wolf, J.C. and S.A. Smith. 1999. Comparative severity
of experimentally-induced mycobacteriosis in striped bass Morone saxatilis and hybrid tilapia Oreochromis spp. Diseases of Aquatic Organisms. 38:191-200.
Burkholder, J.M.,
Noga, E.J., Hobbs, C.H., Glasgow, H.B. and Smith, S.A. 1992. New "phantom" dinoflagellate
is the causative agent of major estuarine fish kills. Nature (London) 358:407-410. First peer-reviewer Pfiesteria article.