Dr. Ian Smith

Ian Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books, "Shred: The Revolutionary Diet," and "Super Shred: The Big Results Diet," "Blast The Sugar Out," "The Clean 20," "The Ancient Nine," "Clean & Lean" and seventeen other books with millions of copies in print. "Wolf Point" the second installment of his Ashe Cayne mystery series and "Plant Power" were his most recent releases. His Ashe Cayne mystery series ("The Unspoken" and "Wolf Point") have been optioned and are currently being developed into a streaming TV series.

He is a longtime medical contributor to Emmy award-winning "The Rachael Ray Show," and former solo host of the nationally-syndicated, Emmy award-winning television show "The Doctors." He also served as the medical/diet expert for six seasons on VH1’s highly-rated "Celebrity Fit Club" and is the creator and founder of the national health initiatives The 50 Million Pound Challenge and The Makeover Mile. Dr. Smith is the former medical correspondent for NBC News Network and for NewsChannel 4 in New York, where he filed reports for NBC Nightly News and The Today Show as well as WNBC's various news broadcasts. He has appeared extensively on numerous broadcasts including "The Oprah Winfrey Show," "The View," "Dr. Oz," "Steve Harvey Show," "The Talk," "Larry King Live," "Anderson Cooper 360," CNN, MSNBC and many more. He has written for various publications including Time, Newsweek, Men’s Fitness, and the New York Daily News, and has been featured in several other publications including, People, Redbook, Details Magazine, Essence, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, and Black Enterprise.

A highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Smith's work has been honored by several organizations, including the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for his coverage on the momentous events of September 11, 2001. He is also very active in charitable causes. Dr. Smith currently serves on the board of WTTW in Chicago and has also served on the boards of the American Council on Exercise, the New York Mission Society, the Prevent Cancer Foundation, The New York Council for the Humanities, and The Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity.

Dr. Smith graduated from Harvard College with an AB and 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.