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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.


EXTERNAL LINKS


  • AntiPsychiatry.org - 'Why Psychiatric Drugs Are Always Bad', Douglas C. Smith, M.D

  • AntiPsychiatry.org - 'Directory of Mental Health Professionals who oppose involuntary psychiatric "treatment"', Douglas A. Smith

  • PsychRights.org - Law Project for Psychiatric Rights