Kendall Smith

Kendall Smith

MD, PhD

Dr. Kendall Smith is an Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. She received her MD and PhD in Molecular and Integrative Physiology from the University of Kansas and the Stowers Institute for Medical Research. She completed her anesthesiology residency in the Duke Academic Career Enrichment Scholars Program followed by fellowship at Duke in critical care medicine in 2018. In 2021, Dr. Smith was awarded an International Anesthesia Research Society Mentored Research Award to probe the temporal interplay between molecular circadian rhythms and postoperative delirium in older adults. Prior to that, she was appointed to the departmental T32 where she worked to validate a blood-based transcriptomic algorithm for circadian phenotyping in older adults. Dr. Smith serves as Co-Leader for the Acute and Critical Illness Working Group of the Washington University Center for Biological Rhythms and Sleep (COBRAS). Dr. Smith is also enthusiastic about medical education and holds leadership positions for the residency and critical care medicine fellowship programs within the Washington University Department of Anesthesiology.