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Kendall Arthur Smith is an American Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, Senior Attending Physician and Chief of the Division of Immunology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital.

Background
Smith obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Denison University in 1964, and graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1968. He studied the effects of interferon on the proliferation of erythroid precurser cells postdoctoral fellow at the Institut de Cancérologie et d'immunogénétique in Villejuif, France.

Honors

 * 1968 Robert Nelson Watman Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research and Medicine
 * 1979 Elected as Fellow to the American College of Physicians
 * 1981 Elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation
 * 1989 Freidrich-Sasse Foundation Award for excellence in research
 * 1993 Denison University Alumni Citation Award