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Dr. Smith possesses over 25 years of experience in healthcare management, the outreach laboratory business, pathology, laboratory medicine, and blood banking. He is a board-certified clinical and anatomic pathologist and transfusion medicine specialist. Dr. Smith’s professional career includes serving on the executive management team and Board of Directors of AmeriPath, Inc. While at AmeriPath, Dr. Smith’s positions included Chief Medical Officer, Executive Vice-President of Genomic Strategies, and Executive Director of AmeriPath’s Center for Advanced Diagnostics. Dr. Smith has previously held board seats at Immucor, Inc., the American Association of Blood Banks where he served as President, and the National Blood Foundation where he served as Chairman. In the 1980’s, Dr Smith was Executive Head and Director of Blood Services for the American Red Cross in Nashville, assistant professor of pathology at Vanderbilt, and Director of Laboratories and Chairman of the Department of Pathology at Memorial Hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, where he co-founded Memorial Laboratories, a successful outreach reference laboratory.
Currently, Dr. Smith provides consulting and management services to the healthcare industry and to venture capital firms. He sits on the Committee of Visitors for Vanderbilt University’s School of Engineering, on the Board of Directors of Jacksonville Country Day School, and on the Board of RedPath Integrated Pathology, Inc., a revenue-stage molecular diagnostics company. Dr. Smith attended Vanderbilt University on a Southeastern Conference football scholarship and graduated summa cum laude from the School of Engineering. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Tennessee, performed his residency at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, and completed his blood banking fellowship at Vanderbilt. | 