R. Glenn Smith, M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Interim Chairman

 

At the University of Texas Medical Branch in the Department of Neurology Robert Glenn Smith, M.D., Ph.D. serves as Associate Professor of Neurology and Vice-Chairman of the Department, with specialization in neuromuscular diseases.

Dr. Smith completed clinical and research training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, where he served as a faculty member for more than a decade. Following completion of a fellowship in neurodegenerative disease/amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, he worked closely with Dr. Stanley Appel, Chairman of Neurology at Baylor, as a senior member of his basic research team and as clinical researcher in the Vicki Appel Muscular Dystrophy Association ALS Center. More recently, Dr. Smith created and helped to direct the Muscular Dystrophy Association Neuromuscular Teaching Clinics at Baylor College of Medicine and the Neuromuscular Disease Clinics of the Harris County Hospital District. As part of his clinical involvement at Baylor he served as an attending physician at the Veteran’s Administration Medical Center in Houston and as previous interim Chief of Neurology at Ben Taub General Hospital. Dr. Smith has published approximately 70 peer-reviewed and review articles on basic and clinical research related to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and other neuromuscular diseases.

His clinical practice focuses on neuromuscular disease, while his research interests include immune-mediated neurologic disease and neurodegenerative diseases, such as myasthenia gravis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis as well as neurological.