Dr. Smit J. Patel serves as the Director, Digital Health and AI at the Digital Medicine Society (DiMe), a 501(c)(3) global non-profit organization dedicated to better health powered by digital medicine. Smit’s work focuses on applied approaches to the safe, effective, ethical, and equitable use of digital technologies to advance clinical research, clinical care, and public health. Smit is an Advisory Board member for Brown-Lifespan Center for Digital Health and serves on advisory committees for digital health program(s) at the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC), American Pharmacists Association (APhA), and HealthXL. To help share the future of ideas, he serves as a member of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) Advisory Council.
Smit earned his Doctorate in Pharmacy from the Ohio State University. He currently holds a faculty position for the Digital Health Innovation Certificate Program at the Brown University School of Professional Studies. Additionally, he is a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum, a Forbes 30 under 30 scholar, a TEDx speaker, and MIT-Harvard Health Innovation alumnus.
