Graeme N. Smith

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Graeme Neil Smith (born 1963) is a Canadian obstetrician and expert in maternal–fetal medicine. He served as the head of Queen’s University’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and was a clinician-scientist at Kingston General Hospital Research Institute.

Education and training: He earned an MD and PhD from the University of Western Ontario in 1992. He completed subspecialty training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1999 and is a Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC) certificate through Queen’s University. His PhD work studied the effects of maternal ethanol infusion on the near-term fetus in sheep.

Career highlights: He joined Queen’s University’s obstetrics and gynecology faculty. In 2003 he won the Premier’s Research Excellence Award. In 2011 he started the MotHERS program (Mothers Health Education, Research and Screening) at Kingston General Hospital. His team created an app called Maternelle to help mothers and their family doctors track pregnancy health. In 2013 he was appointed head of the department at Queen’s University, and in 2016 his team received a $9.8 million CIHR grant to continue work on maternal and child health. He was reappointed to lead the department for another five years.

Personal: He is married to obstetrician/gynaecologist Susan Chamberlain, and they have two children.