Mail Stop 4004
3901 Rainbow Blvd
Kansas City, KS 66160
Awards:
Recipient of the 2001 Rainbow Award. This award is presented annually
to the one faculty member at the University of Kansas School of Medicine
whom students have deemed an outstanding role model. Rebecca Feagle-Orr,
fourth-year medical student, nominated Smith. In her nomination letter,
Feagle-Orr said she had been inspired by Smith's "faith in the strength
of the human spirit," and she told a story of Smith's treatment
of a boy dying with leukemia. Dr. Smith was selected from ten nominees
in six specialties.