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Dr. Ian Smith is currently the medical/diet host on VH1's highly rated Celebrity Fit Club. He contributes to ABC's nationally syndicated The View. Dr. Smith is also the host of the nationally syndicated radio show "Healthwise" on American Urban Radio Networks.
He is the former medical correspondent for NBC News network and for News Channel 4 where he filed reports for NBC's Nightly News and The Today Show, as well as WNBC's various news broadcasts.
He has written for various publications, including Time, Newsweek, Men's Health, and The New York Daily News, and has been featured in several other publications, including People, Essence, Ebony, Cosmopolitan and the University of Chicago Medicine on the Midway.
"Women's health has entered an exciting time with so much robust new information and discoveries that are not only cutting edge, but provide great practicality for the preservation of health," Dr. Smith says. "Women are the gatekeepers of the family's health, thus it's critical that they remain healthy as their well-being impacts the entire household."
Dr. Smith's work has been honored by several organizations, including the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his coverage on the momentous events beginning on Sept. 11, 2001.
Dr. Smith is active in charitable causes, serving on several boards, including the New York City Mission Society, Cancer Research Foundation of America, American Council on Exercise, New York Council for the Humanities, and the Henry H. Kessler Foundation.
Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and received a master's in science education from Teachers College of Columbia University. He attended Dartmouth Medical School and completed the last two years of his medical education and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Smith is also the author of four books, including the recently released The Fat Smash Diet, the critically acclaimed The Blackbird Papers (2005 BCALA fiction Honor Book Award winner), Dr. Ian Smith's Guide to Medical Websites, and The Take-Control Diet.
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