1960s - Smith

Leon G. Smith Sr., M.D., FW ’60, HS ’62, chair of medicine at Saint Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, N.J., was awarded a Mastership from the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine in recognition of his career accomplishments and service to the college. He is also co-chair of the bioterrorism task force for the Medical Society of New Jersey. Smith has received a grant to build a bioterrorism lab to isolate potential pathogens, which he says will be run by his son, Stephen M. Smith, M.D. ’89. Four of his children are physicians; two graduated from Yale School of Medicine. Smith also established the Infectious Disease Hall of Fame at Saint Michael’s.