Dr. Ian Smith is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling books Shred: The Revolutionary Diet, Super Shred: The Big Results Diet, Blast the Sugar Out!, The Clean 20, The Ancient Nine, Clean & Lean and eleven other books with millions of copies in print. His newest book--The Unspoken, the first installment of his Ashe Cayne mystery series--is out now.He is currently the host of the Emmy Award-winning television show The Doctors and a longtime medical contributor to The Rachael Ray Show.Dr. Smith served as the medical/diet expert for six seasons on VH1's highly rated Celebrity Fit Club, and as the medical correspondent for NBC News, where he filed reports for Nightly News and The Today Show as well as WNBC's various news broadcasts. He has also appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, Dr. Oz, The Steve Harvey Show, The Talk, Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper 360, CNN, MSNBC, and many more.
Dr. Smith is the creator and founder of the national health initiatives The 50 Million Pound Challenge and The Makeover Mile. He has written for various publications including Time, Newsweek, Men's Fitness, and the New York Daily News, and has been featured in publications such as People, Redbook, Details Magazine, Essence, Ebony, Cosmopolitan, and Black Enterprise.A highly sought-after speaker, Dr. Smith 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 has 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 at and graduated from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.Keep up to date with Dr. Smith by visiting his websites, www.shredlife.com and www.doctoriansmith.
com, and following him on Twitter @DrIanSmith and Instagram @DoctorIanSmith.