Dr. Smith is Professor of Neurology, Radiology, and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary, and the holder of the endowed Katthy Taylor Chair in Vascular Dementia. He directs the Cognitive Neurosciences Clinic at Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. Smith is a member of the Steering Committee of the 5th Canadian Consensus Conference on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dementia, Research Executive Committee of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (ccna-ccnv.ca; Canada’s federally funded national dementia research network), and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Consortium of Centres for Clinical Cognitive Research (c5r.ca; a national dementia clinical trials network). He has been the site principal investigator (PI) for numerous trials in Alzheimer’s disease and dementia at the University of Calgary. His investigator-initiated research program seeks to understand vascular contributions to Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. He has more than 550 peer-reviewed publications, with an H index of 130 on Google scholar.