KEN R SMITH, PhD

Curriculum Vitae

KEN R SMITH, PhD portrait
  • Director, Pedigree and Population Resource (Utah Population Database), Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah
  • Professor, Family And Consumer Studies, University of Utah
  • Adjunct Professor, Sociology Department, University of Utah
  • Adjunct Professor, Economics Department, University of Utah
  • Adjunct Professor, Biomedical Informatics Resch, University of Utah

Research

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

  • NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND BODY MASS INDEX: SELECTION OR CAUSATION? PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2009 - 08/31/2010. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND BODY MASS INDEX: SELECTION OR CAUSATION? PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2009 - 08/31/2010. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • NEIGHBORHOOD CHARACTERISTICS AND BODY MASS INDEX: SELECTION OR CAUSATION? PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2008 - 08/31/2009. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • THE UTAH STUDY OF FERTILITY, LONGEVITY AND AGING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2007 - 06/30/2010. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • THE UTAH STUDY OF FERTILITY, LONGEVITY AND AGING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2006 - 08/31/2007. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • THE UTAH STUDY OF FERTILITY, LONGEVITY AND AGING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2005 - 08/31/2006. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • THE UTAH STUDY OF FERTILITY, LONGEVITY AND AGING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/2004 - 08/31/2005. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • THE UTAH STUDY OF FERTILITY, LONGEVITY AND AGING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/16/2003 - 08/31/2004. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • KINSHIP AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MORTALITY . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 07/15/2002 - 08/31/2003. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • KINSHIP AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MORTALITY . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/15/1999 - 08/31/2003. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • KINSHIP AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MORTALITY . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/30/1998 - 08/31/1999. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • KINSHIP AND SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MORTALITY . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/30/1998 - 08/31/1999. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • KINSHIP AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MORTALITY . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/01/1997 - 08/31/1998. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • ADVERSE SELECTION, LIFE INSURANCE, AND GENETIC TESTING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/30/1996 - 09/29/1999. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • KINSHIP AND SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC DETERMINANTS OF MORTALITY . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/30/1996 - 08/31/1997. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • ADVERSE SELECTION, LIFE INSURANCE, AND GENETIC TESTING . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 09/30/1995 - 09/29/1996. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • WIDOWHOOD, ECONOMIC STATUS, AND PANEL ATTRITION . PI: SMITH, KEN R. 04/01/1988 - 12/31/1989. Total project budget to date: $0.00
  • WIDOWHOOD, ECONOMIC STATUS, AND PANEL ATTRITION . PI: SMITH, KEN R . 04/01/1987 - 03/31/1988. Total project budget to date: $0.00

Current Grants as Pi or Co-I

Smith Ken R.. “Early Life Conditions, Survival and Health: A Pedigree-Based Population Study.” 5 Year NIA Grant, $3,900,000 Direct Costs, 2011-2016 (Smith is PI).

 

Stroup, Antoinette and Ken R. Smith. “Improving SEER SES Data: Linkage with State Vital Records and Birth Certificate Data.” $80,000 direct costs grant from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007-2008) 2011-2012 (Smith is a Joint Principal Investigator).

 

Brown, Barbara, "Complete the Streets 3 Ways:  Effects on activity and BMI." NCI 5-year grant, $2,380,000 direct costs, 2011-2016 (Smith is Co-I).

 

Stanford, Joseph.  “Outcomes of infertility treatment in clinic and population-based cohorts.” NICHD 2 year grant $224,250 direct costs, 2009-2012 (Smith is Investigator).

 

Gutmann, Myron. “Demographic Analysis of Longitudinal Historical Data.” NICHD 3-Year Teaching Grant, $148,701 direct costs, 2005-2008, renewed for 5 years 2009-2013 (Smith is Instructor).

 

Norton, Maria. “Lifespan Stressors and Alzheimer’s Disease: The Cache County Study,” 3 year grant NIA, $324,813 direct costs (Smith is sub-contract PI).

 

Smith, Ken R., Lori Kowaleski-Jones, Cathleen Zick, Barbara Brown, Ikuho Yamada, Jessie Fan. “Neighborhood Characteristics and Body Mass Index: Selection or Causation?” NIDDK 4 year grant, $275,000 Direct; $91,000 Administrative Supplement for 2009-2012 (Smith and Kowaleski-Jones share PI position).