About

Sandra Susan Smith is the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice and Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She serves as the Faculty Director of the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management and holds the Carol K. Pforzheimer Professorship at the Radcliffe Institute. Her research interests include urban poverty and joblessness, social capital and social networks, and the front end of criminal case processing. Her publications include books such as Lone Pursuit: Distrust and Defensive Individualism among the Black Poor, and The Criminal Justice System as a Labor Market Institution, as well as articles published in prominent academic journals like the American Journal of Sociology, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and others. Smith has been actively involved in advisory boards related to research on workers, economic mobility, criminal justice, and community corrections, and has served in leadership roles within the American Sociological Association, including as a Council member, Chair of the Section on Inequality, Poverty, and Mobility, and Deputy Editor of the American Sociological Review. She holds an MA and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history-sociology from Columbia University. Additionally, she has been a visiting scholar at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Research topics

• Medicine
• Nursing
• Pathology
• Family medicine
• Cardiology
• Internal medicine
• Psychology
• Radiology
• Medical education

Selected publications

• Survey of the musculoskeletal radiology workforce: hybrid and remote (work from home) practice models

  Skeletal Radiology · 2026-05-17

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• Implementation and Quality Assurance Monitoring of Imaging for the Multicenter PIKASO Trial to Prevent of Post-traumatic Osteoarthritis after ACL Reconstruction: Protocols and Experience from the First 100+ Patients

  Osteoarthritis and Cartilage · 2026-04-01

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• Repeatability of knee cartilage T1ρ and T2 mapping: A multi-site multi-vendor study by QMIC

  Osteoarthritis and Cartilage · 2026-04-01

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• Analysis of multiple MRI-based quantitative structural measurements of knee osteoarthritis in a case control study – association with pain and structural progression and comparison to semi-quantitative scoring

  Osteoarthritis and Cartilage Open · 2025-06-05 · 2 citations

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  Objective: To use software-based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) measures of multiple features of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) to predict radiographic and pain progression in persons with KOA, and compare to a study that used primarily semi-quantitative (SQ) scoring. Design: Data from the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Osteoarthritis Biomarkers Consortium (FNIH) nested case-control study (600 subjects divided into case and control groups based on knee pain and/or radiographic progression) were used. The MRI Osteoarthritis Software Scoring (MOSS) was used to quantitatively assess medial femoral cartilage, bone marrow lesions, osteophyte volume, effusion-synovitis volume, and a measure of Hoffa's synovitis at baseline and 24-months using readers with diverse levels of expertise. Association between baseline and baseline to 24-month change with progressor status was examined and discriminative ability assessed using the c-statistic (AUC) computed under 10-fold cross validation. Results: AUC values ranged from 0.690 to 0.726 to predict combined pain/radiographic progression and from 0.709 to 0.804 to predict radiographic progression alone. Bone marrow lesions and osteophyte volume played a role in all analyses. Medial femoral cartilage was significant for all but the cross-sectional analysis involving pain progression. Comparison to results from a separate publication showed that MOSS offered similar discrimination to a published model that primarily used SQ scoring. Conclusions: We found a high level of discrimination particularly for radiographic progression analysis. Use of fast automated software and readers with varied prior experience make MOSS a useful tool for enriching future clinical trials and for other large studies of KOA.

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• Wellness and Well-Being: <i>AJR</i> Podcast Series on Training and Education, Episode 8

  American Journal of Roentgenology · 2025-01-15

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• Superb microvascular imaging in the assessment of persistent synovitis after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction

  Osteoarthritis Imaging · 2025-10-31

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  The purposes of this study were to evaluate the prevalence of persistent postoperative synovitis three months after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) using ultrasonographic superb microvascular imaging (SMI) and evaluate the intra-rater reliability of SMI synovitis and the level of agreement with other ultrasound synovitis assessment methods. Twenty-three individuals who had undergone primary ACLR took part in this prospective, IRB-approved study (11 females, 12 males; age=28.7±9.7 y; BMI=25.6±3.3 kg/m 2 ). Three months after surgery, longitudinal and transverse ultrasound scans of the suprapatellar recess were performed at midline, medial to midline, and lateral to the midline. In addition to Power Doppler and B mode measures of synovitis and effusion, SMI was graded on two separate occasions at least two weeks apart. SMI intra-rater reliability was assessed with weighted Kappa analyses, and Kappa analyses were also used to assess the agreement between SMI synovitis and Power Doppler synovitis and B mode effusion. Three months following ACLR, 2 (8.7%) participants had no SMI synovitis, 9 (39.1%) participants had mild synovitis, and 12 (52.2%) had moderate synovitis. SMI synovitis grades demonstrated excellent intra-rater reliability (Kappa=0.93 [95%CI: 0.80, 1.06]) but demonstrated little agreement with Power Doppler synovitis grades (Kappa=0.29) or B mode effusion grades (Kappa=0.14). Persistent postoperative synovitis was common with half of patients demonstrating moderate synovitis. SMI synovitis grading was reliable, but little agreement was noted between SMI and other ultrasound grades of synovitis or effusion suggesting that the different techniques are identifying distinct features of postoperative inflammation.

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• Launching a BSPS Program to Prepare the Next Generation of Health Science Leaders

  American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education · 2025-11-01

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• Clinical, Imaging, and Histological Findings in Infectious Lesions of the Face, Ears, and Neck

  2025-01-01

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• Global insights on diversity, equity, and inclusion—perspectives and experiences from musculoskeletal radiologists of the International Skeletal Society DEI Committee

  Skeletal Radiology · 2025-04-12 · 2 citations

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• Predicting Knee Osteoarthritis Progression Using Explainable Machine Learning and Clinical Imaging Data

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01 · 2 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Mark W. Anderson

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• Lena F. Schaefer

  Harvard University

  42 shared

• Jacob Mandell

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

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• Mark W. Anderson

  University of Plymouth

  39 shared

• J. Duryea

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  37 shared

• Bharti Khurana

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  30 shared

• Charles B. Eaton

  Kent Hospital

  27 shared

• Ramin Khorasani

  Brigham and Women's Hospital

  26 shared