Brian Smith, MD

Brian Smith, MD is a Board Certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist with over 20 years of experience in teen mental health. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry of Michigan State University, overseeing the largest medical student Psychiatry clerkship system in the United States of America and teaches both resident physicians and medical students about mental health and the profession of Psychiatry. Dr. Smith loved writing the B.S. at Cornell weekly column for the Cornell Daily Sun while in college, collaborating with his good friend, former housemate, and TikTok star, Dr. Anthony Youn (and Alan Eisenstock), on the best-selling medical school memoir, In Stitches, and publishing more serious stuff in medical journals. He lives in Michigan with a wife, dog who prefers the wife, and 3 children, who have sadly forgotten that their dad used to be a genius.