“…Born in Oakland, California, in 1926, Dr. Smith attended medical school at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, undertook his postdoctoral studies in the Department of Pediatrics, and subsequently launched his career as a pediatric endocrinologist. Ultimately, he determined that his patients' growth problems were related to birth defects and not conditions related to endocrinology, after which his focus changed (Levenson 2010;Wiedemann 1991).…”