Richard smith bmj biography

British medical doctor, editor, and businessman

For the American journalist, see Richard Mills Smith.

Richard SmithCBEFMedSci is a British medical doctor, editor, and businessman.

He is the director of the UnitedHealth Chronic Disease Initiative at Emory University (which grew out of the UnitedHealth “Ovations initiative”),^[1] which together with the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute has created 11 centres in low and middle income countries that work on non-communicable disease.^[2]

Smith also serves as chair of the Cochrane Library Oversight Committee and a member of the UK Panel on Research Integrity.^[2] Additionally, he is currently chairman of the board of directors of Patients Know Best.

Previously he was chief executive of UnitedHealth Europe, a subsidiary of the UnitedHealth Group that works with public health systems in Europe. Before that, from 1991 to 2004, he served as both editor-in-Chief of the