Ian Smith is a medical contributor to ABC’s nationally syndicated, “The View,” a contributing editor to Men’s Health magazine, and the medical/diet expert on VH1’s “Celebrity Fit Club.” 

He is also the host of the nationally syndicated radio show HealthWatch on American Urban Radio Networks.  He is the former medical correspondent for NBC News network and for NewsChannel 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, and The New York Daily News, and he has been featured in several other publications including, People, Essence, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, and University of Chicago Medicine on the Midway.

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. He is very active in charitable causes, serving on several boards, including the New York City Mission Society, American Council on Exercise and the New York Council for the Humanities.

Smith is a graduate of Harvard College and he 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.

Smith is also the author of four books, the recently released No. 1 New York Times bestseller “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.”  He is working on his second novel, to be released this year.

A native of Danbury, Conn., Smith resides in Manhattan.