Erick B. Gerday

Dr. Smith is Associate Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is active in both undergraduate medical education (UME) and graduate medical education (GME). In UME, Dr. Smith directs the SCoPE, introduction to medical school and Phase 3 of the MD program. He also directs the Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship. Dr. Smith earned his undergraudate degree from Northwestern University and his medical degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed general pediatrics and pediatric critical care training at the University of Utah. He has previously worked as a general pediatrician in Pocatello, Idaho, a hospitalist at Primary Children's Hospital and as a member of the Pediatric AIDS Corps in Lilongwe, Malawi. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Critical Care. In addition to education, Dr. Smith's scholarly interests focus on implementing pediatric critical care in low resource settings.

Dr. Lawrence received her medical degree from the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine and completed her Pediatric residency and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship at the Oklahoma Children’s Hospital. Following fellowship, she spent the first six years of her professional career in a high acuity, tertiary referral, and private practice facility. Upon returning to academics in 2010, she received a Master of Science degree in Clinical and Translational Sciences (2013). She is board-certified in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She is currently an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and is in the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at Primary Children’s Medical Center. Her clinical interests include neonatal sepsis, antibiotic stewardship, and the epidemiology of congenital cytomegalovirus, neonatal herpesvirus, and congenital syphilis infections. She is also working towards universal newborn screening for congenital cytomegalovirus infection to enable rapid identification and intervention services to children at risk for sensorineural hearing loss. Her research interests lie in understanding the fundamental mechanisms of bacterial pathogenesis and the neonatal innate immune system, with particular focus on neonatal neutrophil function. She is also skilled at designing and successfully completing large clinical studies, with primary goals of translating innovative diagnostics and therapeutics from the bench to bedside. She has active NIH-funded research in the validation of new technology by MelioLabs in the rapid and low-cost detection and identification of pathogens (bacterial, fungal, and viral) in a single, low volume patient sample. She is also nationally funded in the investigation of host cell-membrane wrapped nanoparticles, engineered by Cellics Therapeutics, as a novel adjunctive therapeutic for neonatal sepsis.

Chris Rich, M.D. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. Dr. Rich graduated from the University of Utah with a B.A. in German and received his medical degree from the University Of Utah School Of Medicine. He completed his adult psychiatric residency at UC San Diego and his Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Utah .Dr. Rich currently works as a child psychiatrist at Primary Children’s Hospital Center for Counseling. As a board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist, Dr. Rich’s clinical interests include childhood mood and anxiety disorders, ADHD treatment, early onset schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorders.