Smith, Michael T., Ph.D., C.B.S.M.

Professor
Alafousos Scholar
Director, Center for Behavior and Health
Director, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program
Co-Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Sleep-Related Symptom Science

Main Office Address

The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
5510 Nathan Shock Drive, Suite 100
Baltimore, MD 21224

Phone: 410-550-7000
Fax: 410-550-0117

E-mail: msmith62@jhmi.edu

Education

Professional Interests

Dr. Smith earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at Alliant International University in San Francisco California and completed his general clinical psychology internship and fellowship training programs in both pain management and sleep disorders research at the University of Rochester, School of Medicine. His NIH funded research focuses on the neurobehavioral causes, consequences, and treatments of insomnia and sleep loss with an emphasis on the interface between sleep and pain. Dr. Smith serves on several editorial boards, governmental advisory panels and NIH research study sections.  He is a co-founder and current President of the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine.

Click here for a Hopkins Psychiatry BrainWise Newsletter article about Dr. Smith's work

Selected Publications

Smith MT, Perlis ML, Haythornthwaite JA. Suicidal ideation in outpatients with chronic musculoskeletal pain: An exploratory study of the role of sleep onset insomnia and pain intensity. Clinical Journal of Pain. 20(2):111-8 (2004).

Smith MT, Perlis, ML, Chengazi VU, Pennington J., Soeffing J., Ryan JM, Giles DE. Neuroimaging of NREM sleep in primary insomnia: A Tc-99-HMPAO single photon computed tomography study. Sleep, 25(3), 325-335 (2002).

Smith MT, Perlis, ML, Parks A, Smith, MS, Pennington J, Giles DE, Buysse D.  Comparative Meta-analysis of pharmacotherapy and behavior therapy for insomnia. American Journal of Psychiatry 159(1), 5-11 (2002).

Smith MT, Perlis ML, Carmody TP, Smith, MS, Giles, DE.  Pre-Sleep Cognitions in Insomnia Secondary to Chronic Pain. Journal of Behavioral Medicine 24(1), 93-114 (2001).

Smith MT, Perlis ML, Smith MS, Carmody, TP, Giles DE.  Sleep quality and pre-sleep arousal  in chronic pain.  Journal of Behavioral Medicine 23,1, 1-13 (2000).