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Douglas C. Smith, M.D. (Psychiatrist Consultant) 

   Dr. Smith is a board-certified psychiatrist who graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 1986 and completed psychiatry residency at the integrated program of Wright-Patterson AFB and Wright State University in 1990. Dr. Smith has extensive post-graduate training in psychoanalysis.  He was Chief of Mental Health Services at Davis-Monthan AFB from 1990 to 1994. Dr. Smith was Chief of Psychiatry at Mt. Edgecumbe Hospital, Sitka, Alaska, from 1994 to 1996. During that time he testified in dozens of civil commitment hearings.  Since 1996 he has been the Director of Mental Health Services at the SEARHC Juneau Medical Center. In 2001 he became the Medical Director of the clinic.  Dr. Smith continues to practice psychiatry half-time. Interspersed through his career he has had a number of “moonlighting jobs” at state prisons in Ohio and Alaska and at community mental health centers in Arizona.


 

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