Dr. Smith leads and directs an organization’s clinical data and digital strategies, ensuring data quality, security, and accessibility to drive innovation, improve patient care, and achieve business objectives. Dr. Smith joined Symphony from a career spanning academic health systems and bespoke clinical data analytics company and numerous technology and software startup companies focused on health, technology and data mining blending insights and approaches across industries to solve complex human health problems at scale.

Dr. Smith’s is an also an accomplished teacher, mentor, and nationally recognized health service researcher. Over 20 years as a tenured professor at UW Medical School - Madison, Dr. Smith mentored 150+ graduate students and clinicians from multi-disciplinary backgrounds.

In 2006, Dr. Smith founded (launched) the Health Innovation Program to transform healthcare delivery and population health across the state and nation through health systems research that partners University of Wisconsin faculty with healthcare and community organizations. Over the past 15 years, HIP has supported over 980 faculty, staff, and students to achieve their research and career development that generated 710 peer-reviewed Articles supported by $551M in grants including NIH Clinical and Translational Research. HIPxChange includes toolkits to improve patient and family engagement in care, transitions in care, mental health, cancer screening and care, and chronic condition care. She also won numerous national awards including AHQR’s John M. Eisenberg Excellence in Mentorship Award in 2007.

Dr. Smith received MD and MPH degrees from Yale University School of Medicine, and a PhD from the University of Minnesota in Health Services Research, Policy and Administration in 1999.