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Norm D. Smith, MD
Associate Professor, Chief of Urologic Oncology

Dr. Smith is Associate Professor of Urology and a native of Lead, South Dakota. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1990 and then obtained his MD from Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery and urology residency training at the McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University. Dr. Smith's clinical interests include urologic oncology and diseases of the prostate. His research interests include mediators of angiogenesis in kidney cancer and testicular factors contributing to BPH and prostate cancer.

Education

Undergraduate: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN
Medical school: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Internship: General Surgery, McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Surgery residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Urology residency: McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Research fellow: Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

Selected Publications
The following publications are selected from a complete CV. For more information on Dr. Smith's scholarly productivity, please contact his office.

Journal Articles

1. Kim ED, Smith ND, Grayhack JT. Prostate specific antigen in the expressed prostatic fluid of men with benign prostatic hyperplasia and prostate carcinoma. J Urol. 154(5):1802-5. 1995.
2. Oefelein MG, Smith N, Carter M, Dalton D, Schaeffer A. The incidence of prostate cancer progression with undetectable serum prostate specific antigen in a series of 394 radical prostatectomies. J Urol. 154(6):2128-31. 1995.
3. Oefelein MG, Smith ND, Grayhack JT, Schaeffer AJ, McVary KT. Long-term results of radical retropubic prostatectomy in men with high grade carcinoma of the prostate. J Urol. 158(4):1460-5. 1997.
4. McMillan WD, Smith ND, Nemcek A Jr, Pearce WH. Transcatheter embolization of a ruptured superior gluteal artery aneurysm: case report and review of the literature. J Endovasc Surg. 4(4):376-9. 1997.
5. Kim ED, Smith ND, Grayhack JT. Total protein and acid phosphatase concentrations in prostatic fluid from patients with BPH compared to carcinoma. Int Urol Nephrol. 30(4):471-9. 1998.
6. Safir MH, Smith N, Hansen L, Kozlowski JM. Acute adrenal insufficiency following unilateral radical nephrectomy: a case report. Geriatr Nephrol Urol. 8(2):101-2. 1998.
7. Perry KT, Smith ND, Weiser AC, User HM, Kundu SD, Nadler RB. The efficacy and safety of synchronous bilateral extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy. J Urol. 164(3):644-7. 2000.
8. Reiher FK, Ivanovich M, Huang H, Smith ND, Bouck NP, Campbell SC. The role of hypoxia and p53 in the regulation of angiogenesis in bladder cancer. J Urol. 165(6):2075-81. 2001.
9. Raviv S, Eggener SE, Williams DH, Garnett JE, Pins MR, Smith ND. Long-term survival after "drop metastases" of renal cell carcinoma to the bladder. Urology. 60(4):697-8. 2002.
10. Rodriguez HE, Eggener SE, Podbielski FJ, Brown AM, Amble S, Clark ET, Smith ND. Occlusion of an intraluminal endovascular stent graft after treatment of a ureteral-iliac artery fistula. Urology. 60(5):912. 2002.
11. Smith ND, Rubenstein JN, Eggener SE, Kozlowski JM. The p53 tumor suppressor gene and nuclear protein: basic science review and relevance in the management of bladder cancer. J Urol. 169(4):1219-28. 2003.
12. Nadler RB, Rubenstein JN, Eggener SE, Loor MM, Smith ND. The etiology of urolithiasis in HIV infected patients. J Urol. 169(2):475-7. 2003.
13. Fraser TG, Smith ND, Noskin GA. Persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia due to a prostatic abscess. Scand J Infect Dis. 35(4):273-4. 2003.
14. Eggener SE, Hua V, Schaeffer AJ, Smith ND. A noninfectious source of renal gas: embolization. J Urol. 170(3):913. 2003.
15. Eggener SE, Stern JA, Smith ND, Gonzalez CM. Penile refracture: case report. J Trauma. 55(4):793-4. 2003.
16. Grayhack JT, Smith ND, Ilio K, Wambi C, Kasjanski R, Crawford SE, Doll JA, Wang Z, Lee C, Kozlowski JM. Pigment epithelium-derived factor, a human testis epididymis secretory product, promotes human prostate stromal cell growth in culture. J Urol. 171(1):434-8. 2004.
17. Eggener SE, Rubenstein JN, Smith ND, Nadler RB, Kontak J, Flanigan RC, Waters WB, Picken M, Campbell SC. Renal tumors in young adults. J Urol. 171(1):106-10. 2004.
18. Yap RL, Batler RA, Kube D, Smith ND. Retrieval of migrated ureteral stent by intussusception of ureteral balloon dilator tip. Urology. 63(3):571-3. 2004.
19. Blunt LW Jr, Matsumura J, Carter MF, Gonzalez CM, Smith ND. Repair of superior mesenteric artery ligation during left nephrectomy with a native renal vein patch. Urology. 64(2):377-8. 2004.
20. Roehl KA, Eggener SE, Smith ND, Antenor JV, Catalona WJ. Survival results in screen-detected versus referred patients treated with radical prostatectomy. Urology. Submitted. 2004.
21. Eggener SE, Roehl KA, Smith ND, Antenor JV, Catalona WJ. Contemporary survival results and the role of radiation therapy in patients with seminal vesicle invasion following radical prostatectomy. J Urol. Submitted. 2004.
22. Pazona JF, Schaeffer AJ, Smith ND. Angiosarcoma of the bladder: long-term survival after multimodal therapy. J Urol. Submitted. 2004.
23. Hua VN, Blunt LW Jr, Schaeffer AJ, Smith ND. Clear cell adenocarcinoma of the bladder presenting as acute renal failure. J Urol. Submitted. 2004.
24. Smith ND, Huang X, Eggener SE, Hammond K, Kozlowski JM, Grayhack JT, Volpert OV, Lee C. Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) induces the neuroendocrine differentiation of LNCaP prostate cancer cells. Cancer Res. Submitted. 2004.

Book Chapters

1. Kozlowski JM, Smith ND, Grayhack JT. Suprapubic transvesical prostatectomy and simple perineal prostatectomy for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. In McVary KT, ed. Management of Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy. Totowa, NJ; Humana Press; 2004: 221-262.

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