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peter smyth

M.Sc., Ph.D.

University Education

B.Sc Biochemistry (UCD) 1964
M.Sc Clinical Biochemistry (TCD) 1971
PhD (UCD) 1974

Postgraduate Study

Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, London (1974 - 1977)
Medical University of Lubeck (1988 - 1990)

Brief Career Details

Research Assistant UCD (1964 - 1973)
Assistant/College Lecture 1974 - 1987)
Statutory/ Senior Lecturer (1987 - 2008) Retired
Principal Investigator, UCD Conway Institute of Biomolecular and Biomedical Research(2003 - 2008)
Adjunct Professor, School of Physics, NUI Galway 2009 -

Awards

Honorary Consultant, St Vincent’s Hospital (1974 - )
Secretary/Treasurer Irish Endocrine Society (1992 - 1999); President (2002 - 2004)
Editor in Chief, Thyroid International (2005 - )
Irish Representative, International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders (ICCIDD)

Research Interests

Thyroid Disease
Iodine Deficiency
Breast Cancer
Seaweed Research

Membership of Learned Societies

Irish Endocrine Society - President (2002 – 2004)
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 1979
European Thyroid Association - Organiser 1992 - Annual Meeting Dublin;
Board Member 2004 -
American Thyroid Association
Thyroid Club / British Thyroid Association
Society for Endocrinology: Chairman of Local Organising Committee for 15th Joint
Meeting of British Endocrine Societies, UCD March 1996
Chairman, LOC , Graves’ 200 Celebratory Thyroid Meeting, RCPI Dublin 1996
Endocrine Society, USA
Association pour l'etude du goitre en Afrique Francophone, France.

Recent Publications

Smyth PP. (2010) Iodine and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma. Thyroid 20:581-2.

Smyth PPA , Smith DF , Cloughley GK, Burns RA, Duntas LH (2009) Exercise and Iodine Deficiency. Comprehensive Handbook of Iodine: Nutritional, Biochemical, Pathological and Therapeutic Aspects. 569

Lazarus JH, Smyth PPA (2009) Iodine Deﬁciency in Pregnancy: Iodine Deﬁciency and Supplementation in Pregnancy. Comprehensive Handbook of Iodine: Nutritional, Biochemical, Pathological and Therapeutic Aspects. 269

Azizi F, Smyth P. Breastfeeding and maternal and infant iodine nutrition. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf). 2009 May;70(5):803 - 9. Epub 2008 Oct 6. Review

Burns R, Mayne PD, O'Herlihy C, Smith DF, Higgins M, Staines A, Smyth PP. Can neonatal TSH screening reflect trends in population iodine intake? Thyroid. 2008 Aug;18(8):883-8.

Smyth PPA (2008) Role of iodine in antioxidant defence in thyroid and breast disease. BioFactors 19 : 121 - 130

Lazarus JH, Smyth PP. Iodine deficiency in the UK and Ireland. Lancet. 2008 Sep 13;372(9642):888.

Smyth PPA Iodine in Pregnancy : Public Health Nutrition: 2007 10(12A), 1540 – 1541

Smyth PP, Smith DF, Sheehan S, Higgins M, Burns R, O'Herlihy C. Short-term changes in maternal and neonatal urinary iodine excretion. Thyroid. 2007 17:219-22.

Nawoor Z, Burns R, Smith DF, Sheehan S, O'Herlihy C, Smyth PP. Iodine intake in pregnancy in Ireland--a cause for concern? Ir J Med Sci. 2006 175:21-4

Smyth PPA, O’Herlihy C Dietary iodine intake in pregnancy. Ir Med J. 2006 99:103

Smyth PPA, Duntas LH. Iodine uptake and loss-can frequent strenuous exercise induce iodine deficiency? Horm Metab Res. 2005 Sep;37(9):555-8

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This page was last updated Tuesday, July 13, 2010