Karen Smith, BS

Clinical Research Supervisor
Fields of Interest

Ms. Smith is the clinical research supervisor working directly with the Rabinovici Lab and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She works closely with both faculty and staff in monitoring operational issues, regulatory compliance and project development. Ms. Smith brings many years of experience in clinical and non-clinical trials across a variety of funding mechanisms and disciplines. Prior to coming to the Memory and Aging Center in April 2019, Ms. Smith was a Research Operations Associate at the UCSF Immune Tolerance Network and the Autism Research Program Coordinator at the Environmental Health Investigations Branch in California Department of Public Health.

Publications

Amyloid PET in Sporadic Early- Versus Late-Onset Alzheimer's Disease: Comparison of the LEADS and ADNI Cohorts.

Lagarde J, Maiti P, Schonhaut DR, Blazhenets G, Zhang J, Eloyan A, Thangarajah M, Taurone A, Allen IE, Soleimani-Meigooni DN, Zeltzer E, Windon C, Abu Raya M, Vrillon A, Smith K, Shankar R, Amuiri A, Rocha S, Hammers DB, Dage JL, Nudelman KN, Kirby K, Aisen P, Koeppe R, Landau SM, Carrillo MC, Touroutoglou A, Brickhouse M, Vemuri P, Beckett L, Raman R, Atri A, Day GS, Duara R, Graff-Radford NR, Honig LS, Jones DT, Masdeu JC, Mendez MF, Womack K, Musiek E, Onyike CU, Riddle M, Grant IM, Rogalski E, Johnson ECB, Salloway S, Sha S, Turner RS, Wingo TS, Wolk DA, Dickerson BC, Apostolova LG, La Joie R, Rabinovici GD, LEADS Consortium for the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

The Study to Explore Early Development (SEED): a multisite epidemiologic study of autism by the Centers for Autism and Developmental Disabilities Research and Epidemiology (CADDRE) network.

Schendel DE, Diguiseppi C, Croen LA, Fallin MD, Reed PL, Schieve LA, Wiggins LD, Daniels J, Grether J, Levy SE, Miller L, Newschaffer C, Pinto-Martin J, Robinson C, Windham GC, Alexander A, Aylsworth AS, Bernal P, Bonner JD, Blaskey L, Bradley C, Collins J, Ferretti CJ, Farzadegan H, Giarelli E, Harvey M, Hepburn S, Herr M, Kaparich K, Landa R, Lee LC, Levenseller B, Meyerer S, Rahbar MH, Ratchford A, Reynolds A, Rosenberg S, Rusyniak J, Shapira SK, Smith K, Souders M, Thompson PA, Young L, Yeargin-Allsopp M