Neurocritical & surgical care
Acute-care NP across six academic medical centers. Currently at UC Irvine Neurocritical Care.
Orange County · Southern California
Chadwycke R. Smith
Acute-care nurse practitioner & clinical-AI builder
MSN, NP, AGACNP-BC · UC Irvine Neurocritical Care
I work where the bedside meets the model.
Bedside in the morning.
Shipping infrastructure by lunch.
Orange County, California acute-care NP at UC Irvine Neurocritical Care. I build clinical AI and APP procedure education with citation auditing. My Southern California experience includes UCLA, Cedars-Sinai, and USC Keck in Los Angeles. Previously VP Product at Atlas Meditech (through January 2026). Founder, SkyCon Dynamics & DURA_COLLECTIVE™.
- 15
- modules live on app.chadwycke.io
- 3
- hallucinations caught pre-publish
- AA
- WCAG 2.2 AA over the rendered backdrop
- 100%
- of PMIDs verified live against NCBI
Four lanes,
one practice.
Clinical AI & LLMOps
I build and audit clinician-facing LLM systems. Every PMID in app.chadwycke.io (opens in new tab) is checked against NCBI before publication. Case study →
Clinical education design
15 modules of WCAG 2.2 AA training content for APPs. Co-host of Atlas & Axis with Dr. Cohen-Gadol.
DURA_COLLECTIVE™
Evidence meets aesthetic: rigorous CEU on one side, wearable art on the other. duracollective.com → (opens in new tab)
Built, shipped, in use.
- app.chadwycke.io Procedure-training app for APPs · 15 modules · citation-audited · SvelteKit + Cloudflare Pages (opens in new tab)
- The Neurosurgical Atlas Former VP Product (December 2024 - January 2026) · co-led ATLAS clinical-decision-support platform with Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol (opens in new tab)
- Atlas & Axis Podcast Co-host with Dr. Cohen-Gadol · neurosurgical education (opens in new tab)
- DURA_COLLECTIVE™ Founder · evidence-meets-aesthetic CEU + wearable (opens in new tab)
Work together
Orange County ↔ Los Angeles
Clinical context.
Working software.
For Southern California healthcare and clinical-AI teams: bring a clinical workflow, an education challenge, or a product question. Let's start with the problem.
Explore collaborationCitation-audited clinical AI
Clinician-facing AI with references that can be checked. Grounded in the citation-audit pipeline behind app.chadwycke.io.
Read the citation-audit case studyAPP education
Procedure-training content and education workflows informed by acute-care practice and the published APP training app.
Clinical product collaboration
Connect bedside context with product decisions, drawing on clinical practice and prior VP Product work at Atlas Meditech.
Curriculum vitae.
Acute-care NP positions and selected clinical-AI work. Earlier RN roles (2012-2015) folded. Full deck on request. Licenses, NPI, DEA redacted; share by request.
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Nurse Practitioner - Neurocritical Care
UC Irvine · Department of Neurology, Division of Neurocritical Care
- Sole architect of app.chadwycke.io, 15 live procedure-training modules for APPs.
- Citation-audit pipeline: every PMID checked live against NCBI E-utilities; first pass caught two fabricated citations and one invented rule.
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Vice President - Product & Marketing
Atlas Meditech / Neurosurgical Atlas, Inc.
- Co-led ATLAS, an AI-powered clinical decision support platform in direct collaboration with Dr. Aaron Cohen-Gadol.
- Expanded subscription infrastructure and UX for The Neurosurgical Atlas, the largest open-access neurosurgical educational resource.
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Clinical Instructor - Nurse Practitioner, Neurological Surgery
Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Academic neurosurgery service; subspecialty in Neuro-Oncology, Skull Base, Functional Neurosurgery.
- CITI-certified clinical/research staff for several R-1 studies; development team for proprietary AI tumor modeling software.
- Producer and co-host of the “Atlas & Axis” Podcast with Dr. Cohen-Gadol.
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Nurse Practitioner - Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Dignity Health Medical Group
- Full-spectrum care in a community CVT surgery program, clinic through post-surgical management.
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Nurse Practitioner - Cardiothoracic Surgery + Critical Care
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center
- Academic CT surgery service; subspecialty in cardiac critical care, ECMO/MCS, multi-organ transplant.
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RN → Nurse Practitioner - Neurosurgery + Critical Care
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
- RN-to-NP progression on an academic neurosurgery service; subspecialty in pediatric endovascular, skull base, functional.
- Research interests: stroke, intracranial aneurysms, pediatric AVMs, Vein of Galen, neuromodulation, pituitary tumors. CITI-certified for multiple R-1 studies.
Earlier & contract roles
2012-2015 · Contract and per-diem RN at UMC Southern Nevada (CVCU/TICU), Banner UMC Tucson (CVICU), Harbor-UCLA, Chandler Regional, Norton Louisville (CVICU). High-volume trauma + underserved populations. Contract NP work at Cerebral Medical Group (telehealth psych, 2021), Desert Radiology (IR, 2022).
Education
- MSN - Master of Science in Nursing
- BSN - Bachelor of Science in Nursing
Certifications & licensure
- AGACNP-BC (Acute Care Nurse Practitioner - Board Certified), ANCC
- Dual-licensed Nurse Practitioner: California & Nevada
- ACLS - Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support, American Heart Association
- ENLS - Emergency Neurological Life Support, Neurocritical Care Society
- BLS - Basic Life Support, American Heart Association
- Former CCRN - Critical Care Registered Nurse, AACN
License numbers, NPI, and DEA omitted from the public CV. Share by request.
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