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Richard Smith
Richard Smith
Chair
UK Health Alliance on Climate Change
Richard Smith is chair of the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change, the Point of Care Foundation, which promotes compassionate, dignified care, Patients Know Best (a company that brings all medical and social care records together in one place under the control of patients), and of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death.
From 1979 to 2004 he worked at the BMJ and was the editor of the journal and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group from 1991 until he left.
He is an adjunct professor at Imperial College Institute of Global Health Innovation. Having qualified in medicine in Edinburgh, Smith worked in hospitals in Scotland and New Zealand before joining the BMJ. He also worked for six years as a television doctor with the BBC and TV-AM and has a degree in management science from the Stanford Business School.