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Dr. W Roy Smythe
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- 2401 South 31st Street, Temple, Texas 76501
- (254) 724-2595
- rsmythe@swmail.sw.org
One physician who has spent much of his distinguished career fighting mesothelioma is Dr. W. Roy Smythe, a thoracic surgeon in Texas.
Dr. Smythe received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University in Waco, Texas and his medical degree, in 1989, from Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Medicine in College Station. He completed his internship and residency in surgery at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He then was offered a research fellowship in thoracic and molecular oncology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania's Harrison Department of Surgical Research, and another fellowship at the same hospital, in clinical oncology. He also served as Chief Resident in Surgery and completed a residency in cardiothoracic surgery, still at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is a Professor of Surgery at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Surgery. Prior to his arrival at Texas A&M, Dr. Smythe was a staff member at the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, for six years. He has received certification from both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
His main interests are mesothelioma, advanced lung cancer, chest wall tumors, metastic lesions to the lung, esophageal cancer and benign lung cancer. He is a board member of the National Mesothelioma Foundation and a former board member for the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation. His research interests include cancer biology, gene and molecular therapies and the molecular pathogenesis and treatment of cancer.
Dr. Smythe is a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American College of Surgeons Oncology Group, the Society for Thoracic Surgery, the American Society for Gene Therapy, the American College of Surgeons, the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Texas Surgical Society and the Surgical Biology Club. He has received several awards, including the Best Doctors in America list for the years 2003 through 2008, the Institutional Physician-Scientist Award from the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and the Helen Salyer Anderson Award for Most Outstanding Graduating Medical Student from Texas A & M. He was also named one of the Best Surgeons in America by the Consumers Research Council in 2007 and was a Charles A. Dana Scholar in 1987-88 while at the University of Pennsylvania.
He is widely published, and has authored or co-authored many works on malignant mesothelioma. Two of his papers are “Successful Adenovirus-Mediated Gene Transfer in an in vivo Model of Human Malignant Mesothelioma” and “Treatment of Experimental Human Mesothelioma using Adenovirus Transfer of the Herpes Simplex Thymidine Kinase Gene.”
Dr. Smythe is currently affiliated with the Scott and White Memorial Hospital and Health System, Texas A & M College of Medicine in Temple, Texas.