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Stephen Smith, MD, Emergency Medicine, Minneapolis, MN, Hennepin Healthcare

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Emergency Medicine • Minneapolis, MN

Core Faculty, Hennepin County Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis

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Summary

  • Stephen W. Smith, M.D.

    [Twitter (@smithECGBlog)

    Dr. Smith has been on the Faculty of Emergency Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare since 1991,and full Professor of Emergency Medicine since 2014, with over 180 peer-reviewed publications. He has published widely in Emergency Cardiac Care, including dozens of articles on use of
    troponin for rule out of acute MI, but especially on the ECG in Acute MI, including a 38-chapter book and many other chapters and textbook sections, and over 60 peer-reviewed articles. In 2008, he began writing “Dr. Smith’s ECG Blog,” a free open access site now with over 1600 posts highlighting complex ECG cases, mostly relating to subtle acute coronary occlusion. The blog has 25 million pageviews from readers around the world. His ECG insights are sufficiently novel and cutting edge that his site has over 50,000 Twitter followers and over 350,000 Facebook followers. Since 2014, he has been lecturing on the “False STEMI / NonSTEMI Dichotomy,” and in 2018, he and colleagues introduced the Occlusion MI paradigm as its replacement. In promoting this new paradigm, he gave the Annual Keynote “Rijlant” Lecture at
    the 2021 International Society of Electrocardiology, the 2022 “Kenichi Harumi” Plenary Address at the International Society of Computers in Electrocardiology, and Grand Rounds all over the world, including at the Mayo Clinic Department of Cardiology. He is now working on training AI systems to diagnose Occlusion MI on the ECG.

    He has trained theQueen of Hearts PM Cardio AI App. It is now available in the European Union (CE approved) the App Store and on Google Play. For Americans, you need to wait for the FDA. But in the meantime:

    If you want this bot to help you make the early diagnosis of OMI and save your patient and his/her myocardium, you can sign up to get an early beta version of the bot here. It is not yet available, but this is your way to get on the list.

    https://share-eu1.hsforms.com/18cAH0ZK0RoiVG3RjC5dYdwfyfsg

    • Stephen W. Smith (@smithECGBlog) | Twitter

    The latest Tweets from Stephen W. Smith (@smithECGBlog). Prof of EM at Hennepin with expertise in ECG, esp Acute MI. Author of book, chapters, papers. Google sc

    Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

    Cases come from all over the world. Patient identifiers have been redacted or patient consent has been obtained. The contents of this site have not been reviewe

Education & Training

  • Hennepin Healthcare
    Hennepin HealthcareResidency, Emergency Medicine, 1987 - 1991
  • Northwestern University The Feinberg School of Medicine
    Northwestern University The Feinberg School of MedicineClass of 1987

Certifications & Licensure

  • MN State Medical License
    MN State Medical License 1989 - 2024
  • American Board of Emergency Medicine Emergency Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Fellow (FACEP) American College of Emergency Physicians

Clinical Trials

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Other

Authored Content

  • Dr. Smith's ECG BlogApril 2021

Press Mentions

  • Dear Carolyn: “I Take Issue with the Heart Attack Terms STEMI and NSTEMI”
    Dear Carolyn: “I Take Issue with the Heart Attack Terms STEMI and NSTEMI”November 21st, 2021
  • No Dawdle in Switch to High-Sensitivity Troponin
    No Dawdle in Switch to High-Sensitivity TroponinDecember 1st, 2019
  • ER Doc: Stay off Electric Scooters
    ER Doc: Stay off Electric ScootersSeptember 16th, 2019
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Professional Memberships

Other Languages

  • French, German

Hospital Affiliations

Dr. Stephen Smith, Dr. Stephen Smith, MD, Dr. S Smith, Dr. Stephen Wallner Smith