Pre-Medical Education: BSc cum laude Dalhousie University (1995)
Medical School: BSc (Medicine) Dalhousie University (1998), MD cum laude Dalhousie University (1998)
Ophthalmology Residency: Dalhousie University (2003)
Awards/Distinctions:
1998 Dr. Harold Ross McKean Award in Ophthalmology (Dalhousie University)
1996 Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine Scholarship for high academic standing
1994-1996 Bergmann-Porter Studentship, Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation for BSc (Medicine)
1994 Dean's List (Dalhousie University)
Research
Active Research Projects: Screening for glaucoma in at-risk populations with Confocal Scanning Laser Tomography.
Research Interests: Cataract surgery with advanced custom intraocular lenses.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Smallman DS, Schnare MN, Gray MW, Biochimica et biophysica acta, 1205, RNA:RNA interactions in the large subunit ribosomal RNA of Euglena gracilis, 1995, 1-6.
Abdel-Majid RM, Leong WL, Schalkwyk LC, Smallman DS, Wong ST, Storm DR, FIne A, Dobson MJ, Guernsy DL, Neumann PE, Nature genetics, 19, Loss of adenylyl cyclase 1 activity disrupts patterning of mouse somatosensory cortex, 1998, 289-91.
Smallman DS, Probst LE, Rafuse PE, Journal of cataract and refractive surgery, 20, Pupillary block glaucoma secondary to posterior chamber phakic intraocular lenses for high myopia, 2004, 905-7.
Almeida DR, Johnson D, Hollands H, Smallman DS, Baxter S, Eng KT, Kratky V, ten Hove MW, Sharma S, El-Defrawy S, Journal of cataract and refractive surgery, 34, Effect of prophylactic nonsteriodal antiinflammatory drugs on cystoid macular edema assessed using optical coherence tomography quantification of total macular volume after cataract surgery, 2008, 646-9.
Non Peer-Reviewed Abstracts
Smallman DS, Dickinson JD, Canadian Ophthalmology Society Annual General Meeting, 37, Neisseria meningitidis endogenous endophthalmitis without meningitis in a healthy patient, 2002, 106-7.
Smallman DS, Chew H, Dickinson JD, Samad A, O'Brien D, Kozousek V, Hoskin-Mott A, Canadian Ophthalmology Society Annual General Meeting, 37, Angiographic criteria predictive of improved visual function in photodynamic therapy for age-related macular degeneration, 2002, 99-100.
Smallman DS, Wall JR, Vancouver Orbital Symposium, 1, Effects of systemic treatment of Graves' hyperthyroidism on serum autantibodies to orbital tissues and thyroid-associated ophthalmology, 2005, 250-1.
Monographs
Gray MW, Greenwood MJ, Smallman DS, Spencer DF, Schnare MN, Ribosomal RNA in pieces: a modern paradigm of the primordial ribosome. In Proceedings of the 20th Taniguchi International Symposium on Biophysics, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elevier Science BV, 1, Ribosomal RNA in pieces: a modern paradigm of the primordial ribosome in: eds., 1995, 200-10.
Salvi M, Epstein I, Smallman DS, Li AW, Baker S, Wall JR, The orbit: Present Status and Future Challenges, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1, Thyroid-associated ophthalmology - principle antigens and significance of corresponding antibodies In: eds., 2005, 272-7.
Abstracts/Poster Presentations
Smallman DS, Grawy MW, Program in Evolutionary Biology 8th Annual Meeting, Probing the conformation of Euglena gracilis large subunit ribosomal RNA, 1994.
Gray MW, Greenwood SJ, Smallman DS, Spencer DF, Schnare MN, Program in Evolutionary Biology 8th Annual General Meeting, Split ribosomal RNAs and ribosome evolution, 1994.
Smallman DS, Chew H, Dickinson JD, Samad A, O'Brien D, Kozousek V, Hoskin-Mott A, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Angiographic criteria of improved visual outcome in photodynamic therapy for age-related macular degeneration, 2002.
Campbell RJ, Smallman DS, El-Defrawy SR, Jinapriya D, Hollands H, D'Souza M, Farmer J, Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual General Meeting 2008, Anti-inflammatory Therapy Following Selective Laser Trabeculoplasty: A Randomized Clinical Trial, 2008.
