Ms. Smith, a public health researcher and health and wellness coach, teaches behavior change, motivational interviewing and meditation in the Health and Wellness Coaching and Health Promotion Departments at Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH).  She facilitates mind-body and meditation course(s) for medical and graduate level students at Georgetown University School of Medicine and George Washington University and is Senior Trainer for MINDS (Mindfulness in DC Area Schools), bringing mindfulness into public and private schools in Washington, D.C., MD, And VA.  She has taught mindfulness and other mind-body skills to multiple populations, including children, medical students, physicians, nurses, adults, Native Americans, members of the military, corporate executives, and Members of Congress and their staff.   Ms. Smith received her Masters of Public Health (MPH) from the University of Michigan and has a Bachelor of Science in psychology from Duke University.   Her MPH focused on program development, program evaluation, and quantitative/qualitative research methods, as well as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM).

Ms. Smith has over 20 years of experience developing, implementing, and evaluating health-related programs and services. For the last 10 years, Ms. Smith served as Senior Consultant and Program Manager at the Samueli Institute where she developed and evaluated programs that contribute to human flourishing.  Prior, she was Director, Stress Management Services & Cardiovascular Executive Health Program at the University of Michigan (U-M) Preventive Cardiology clinic.  In that role, she managed mind-body focused stress reduction services for all patients and families in the heart clinic and led a patient-centered program to prevent heart disease among professionals and executives.  Before her work at Preventive Cardiology, Ms. Smith was at the University of Michigan (U-M) Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Center (CAMRC), a National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded research center, where she led and evaluated mind-body skills programs for faculty and medical and allied health students. She also developed CAM-related education curricula for the U-M Medical School.