Doctor's Bio
Dr. Randi N. Smith received her MD degree from the University of California San Francisco, and her MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She completed her general surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco, and her fellowship in trauma and surgical critical care surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Randi N. Smith serves as a trauma surgeon, emergency/elective general surgeon, and surgical critical care intensivist at Grady Memorial Hospital. Her special interests include violence prevention, injury prevention, clinical outcomes, and the use of ultrasound in critical care.
In 2017, Dr. Smith joined the Violence Prevention Task Force, based out of the Injury Prevention Research Center at Emory (IPRCE), and became a core member of the Program to Interrupt Violence through Outreach and Treatment (PIVOT) at Grady.
Her special interests include violence prevention, injury prevention, clinical outcomes, and global surgery.
Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery
Affiliations
Emory
Education & Training
- Medical School: University of California San Francisco School of Medicine
- Internship: University of California San Francisco
- Residency: University of California San Francisco, School of Medicine
Fellowships
University of Pennsylvania
Locations and Directions
Grady Memorial Hospital
Phone: (404) 616-1000
Location:
80 Jesse Hill Jr Drive SE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Publications
- Pushing the Tenets of REBOA: Leveraging Partial Endovascular Aortic Occlusion to Stabilize Blunt Cardiac Rupture.
Dunne WR, Grady ZJ, Smith RN, Nguyen J
The American surgeon. 2025;
PMID: 40721404 - The Dirty Truth About Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta: A Descriptive Analysis of Infection Rates in a High-Risk Population.
Walker J, Meyer C, Wagner V, Arientyl V, Aworanti E, Fransman R, Castater C, Todd SR, Smith RN, Sciarretta JD, Nguyen J
Surgical infections. 2025;
PMID: 40638837 - Meaningful Community Partnership: Recommendations from the Improving Social Determinants to Attenuate Violence (ISAVE) Workgroup of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
Dechert TA, Love-Craighead A, Kotagal M, Smith RN, Dicker RA
Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2025;
PMID: 40454689 - Understanding social and environmental risks of firearm injury using geospatial patterns.
Noorbakhsh S, Dunne W, Babatola O, Himmler A, Hart L, Cave N, Jackson K, Nwanaji-Enwerem J, Castro AL, Krishnan P, Kamaleswaran R, Castater C, Smith RN
Injury. 2025;
PMID: 40383685 - Filling the tank: A multicenter investigation of trauma survival after ultramassive transfusion.
Grady ZJ, Nguyen J, Meyer CH, Moran TP, Rowh M, Zhang A, Harfouche MN, Greiffenstein P, Trinh S, Inaba K, Nekooei N, Filiberto DM, Jones Sayyid CE, Gutierrez A, Meizoso JP, Risinger WB, Smith JW, Jacovides CL, Trausch ED, McNickle AG, Kumar A, Choron RL, Ross SW, Sanderfer VC, Sciarretta J, Smith RN
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2025;99(2):272-278.
PMID: 40358603 - Posttraumatic stress disorder mitigation in trauma patients: An evidence-based systematic review from the Eastern Association for the Surgery of Trauma.
Kartiko S, Atahar J, Rattan R, Zebley JA, Tatebe LC, Perea L, Ruggiero KJ, Levett P, Wassertzug D, Koenig S, Mashbari H, Smith RN, Hink AB, Allee L, Ortiz D, Hai SA, Butler C, Prince H, Murphy P, Teichman AL
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery. 2025;
PMID: 40358601 - Access to Care for Patients With Disabilities.
Castater C, Roth E, Ward C, Burrows J, Young T, Nisseau-Bey Z, Dieynabou D, Fabien J, Smith RN
The American surgeon. 2025;91(5):712-718.
PMID: 40123153 - A Scoping Review of Trauma-Informed Language in the Care of Injured Patients.
Hart LD, Kallepali P, Castater CA, Ochoa M, White M, Strong J, Bliton JN, Smith RN
The Journal of surgical research. 2025;
PMID: 40121754 - Access to Care: The Role of Hospital-Based Violence Intervention Programs.
Arientyl V, Castater C, Hart L, Smith RN
The American surgeon. 2025;91(5):707-711.
PMID: 40114370 - Prevalence of Health Harming Legal Needs of Patients Seeking Care in the Emergency Department.
Ngai H, Wang D, Moran TP, Gottlieb S, Priest C, Smith RN, Hsieh D, Samuels-Kalow M, Zeidan A
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open. 2025;6(2):100062.
PMID: 40026617
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