Dr. Lincoln Samuel Smith, MD

Lincoln Smith, MD, is attending physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Harborview Medical Center and assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He earned his MD at the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, and completed his pediatrics residency at Children’s Hospital of Buffalo where he served as chief resident. Smith completed his pediatric critical care fellowship training at Seattle Children’s, and he is board certified in general pediatrics and pediatric critical care medicine.

Smith’s laboratory research is at the Pulmonary Research Laboratories at Veterans’ Administration Puget Sound Medical Center in Seattle. Smith is investigating the role of lung development in ventilator-induced lung injury. He is focusing on molecular mechanisms by which juvenile mice are protected from synergistic inflammatory and injurious interactions between activation of innate immunity and mechanical ventilation in adult mice.