Douglas C. Smith

Douglas C. Smith, M.D. is an American psychiatrist and mental health consultant who currently lives and practices in Juneau, Alaska. He is on the board of the National Association of Rights Protection and Advocacy and the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Psychology. Dr. Smith is board certified in psychiatry, and has extensive post-graduate training in psychoanalysis.

Dr. Smith graduated from Indiana University, in 1982, with Phi Beta Kappa honors, and from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986. Dr. Smith completed his residency in 1990 at the integrated program of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio. He was Chief of mental health services at Davis-Monthan AFB from 1990 to 1994, and chief of psychiatry at Mount Edgecumbe Hospital, in Sitka, Alaska, from 1994 to 1996.

Dr. Smith has testified in dozens of civil commitment hearings, and since 1996 has been director of mental health services at the Juneau Medical Center. In 2001 he became the clinic's medical director. Dr. Smith continues to practice psychiatry half-time, and through his career has also served in positions at State prisons in Ohio and Alaska and at community mental health centers in Arizona.