Dorothy Smok, MD
Dorothy Smok is a member of the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. Smok graduated from the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University. After completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, Dr. Smok pursued a fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, of Columbia University. Dr. Smok joined the Columbia faculty in 2005, where she has worked as a core member of the Obstetric team. Dr. Smok oversees the obstetric care of high-risk pregnancies. She has a particular interest in medical diseases that affect pregnancy, including infectious diseases, maternal cardiac conditions, pregnancy-associated cancers, psychiatric illnesses, and medical ethics. Dr. Smok is the clinical obstetric director of the Women and Children Care Center (WCCC), where comprehensive care is provided to expecting mothers with HIV and their children. Dr. Smok serves as a member of the pediatric ethics committee. Her interest in ethics is applied clinically in caring for expecting mothers who request neonatal comfort care, where multidisciplinary collaboration with maternal fetal medicine, neonatology, nursing, social work, and child life specialists result in optimal care of the patient. Dr. Smok is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and a member of the Society of Maternal Fetal Medicine.