Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Stanford University. Mentioned in the 1949-03-15-01 Minutes of the Pima County Medical Society, 1904-1954.
See History of Arizona medicine; collections of Orville Harry Brown, M.D. [AHSL Special Collections WZ 70 AA7 H673].
See Farness, Orin J. Charles Edward Smith, M.D. 1904-1967: A Eulogy to Mr. Big C. Arizona Medicine. 1967 Jun;24(6):563.
JAMA, Jun 1967; 200: 1146: Smith, Charles Edward; Berkeley, Calif; born in St. Joseph Mo, Sept 7, 1904; Stanford, 1931; certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine; professor of public health and chairman of the department at the University of California School of Public Health where he was dean; served on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine; consultant, surgeon-general, US Army; honorary consultant, surgeon-general, US Navy; National Consultant, US Air Force; consultant surgeon-general US Public Health Service; past president of the California State Board of Public Health; president elect of the American Public Health Association; member of the Commission on Acute Respiratory Diseases and Commission on Environmental Hygiene; received the John J Sippy Award from the Western Branch of the American Public Health Association in 1958 and the Bronfman Award from the American Public Health Association in 1962; member of the editorial board of California Medicine; died in the Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco April 18, aged 62, of coronary artery thrombosis.