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Elana B. Smith, MD

Academic Title:

Associate Professor

Primary Appointment:

Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Administrative Title:

Associate Vice Chair of Diversity

Additional Title:

Assistant Diagnostic Radiology Residency Program Director

Education and Training

2014-2015: Fellowship, Neuroradiology, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital 

2010-2014: Residency, Diagnostic Radiology, Atantic Health System 

2009-2010: Internship, Transitional Year, Christiana Care Health System

2004-2009: M.D., UMDNJ- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School 

1999-2001: B.M., Temple University 

Research/Clinical Keywords

Medical Education, Neuroradiology, Emergency Radiology, Trauma Radiology

Highlighted Publications

Park A, Smith EB, Ho C, Gimarc D, Resnik C, Hossain R. What Do Program and Geographic Preference Signals Signal? A Survey of Diagnostic Radiology and Integrated Interventional Radiology Residency Applicants. Acad Radiol. 2024 Mar 15:S1076-6332(24)00066-7. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2024.01.044. 

Chatterjee AR, Malhotra A, Curl P, Andre JB, Perez-Carrillo GJG, Smith EB. Traumatic Cervical Cerebrovascular Injury and the Role of CTA: AJR Expert Panel Narrative Review. AJR Am J Roentgenol. 2023 Oct 4. doi: 10.2214/AJR.23.29783.

Smith E, Boscak A. A virtual emergency: learning lessons from remote medical student education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Emerg Radiol. 2021 Jun;28(3):445-452. doi: 10.1007/s10140-020-01874-2. 

Smith EB, Lewis P, Benefield T, Catanzano TM, Khan MJ, Nyberg E, Jordan S. Auditing RadExam: Employing Psychometrics to Improve Exam Quality. Acad Radiol. 2021 Oct;28(10):1389-1398. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2020.05.037. 

Smith EB, Gellatly M, Schwartz CJ, Jordan S. Training Radiology Residents, Bloom Style. Acad Radiol. 2020 Sep 10:S1076-6332(20)30494-3. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2020.08.013.

McRoy C, Patel L, Gaddam DS, Rothenberg S, Herring A, Hamm J, Chelala L, Weinstein J, Smith E, Awan O. Radiology Education in the Time of COVID-19: A Novel Distance Learning Workstation Experience for Residents. Acad Radiol. 2020 Oct;27(10):1467-1474. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2020.08.001. 

Smith EB, Gardner K, Talekar KS, Flanders AE, Zoga AC. Oh, My Aching Back! A Review of Spinal Arthropathies: Musculoskeletal Imaging. Radiographics. 2016 May-Jun;36(3):935-6. doi: 10.1148/rg.2016150194.