Positions: 
  Director, Psychiatric Research Institute
  Marie Wilson Howells Professor and Chair, Department of
     Psychiatry 
  Professor, Department of Health Policy & Management

Dr. Smith is a graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, College of Medicine, where he completed an internship and residency in psychiatry. After finishing a fellowship in psychiatry and internal medicine at the University of Rochester in New York, Dr. Smith returned to UAMS in 1981. He founded the Division of Health Services Research (formerly the Center for Mental Healthcare Research) in 1989 and developed it into one of the largest, most comprehensive mental health services research groups in the nation. 

Dr. Smith is now a nationally and internationally recognized expert in services and outcomes assessment research. He is the Director of the Psychiatric Research Institute and the Marie Wilson Howells Professor and Chair of the Department of Psychiatry.   

Interests: Outcomes, quality of care, value of care, accountability