Brian Smith

Brian T. Smith is currently the Executive Director of Rush University Medical Group and Vice President of Clinical Affairs at Rush University Medical Center. He is also an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Systems Management at Rush University where he is highly recognized as an outstanding teacher and mentor. Prior to joining Rush in August 2005, Mr. Smith spent 12 years in Tampa at the University of South Florida as Executive Director of the USF Physicians Group and was Director of Clinical Planning for the USF Health Sciences Center. Prior to moving to Tampa, he spent five years in consulting in New York-based firms.
 
Mr. Smith has been active in physician faculty practice issues nationally and is the past President of the Academic Practice Plan Directors and past chair of the University HealthSystem Consortium Group Practice Council.  Mr. Smith previously served a four-year term on the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Faculty Practice. Mr. Smith is currently on the Rush Health Finance Committee and on the University HealthSystem Consortium Performance Improvement and Comparative Data Operations Committee. Mr. Smith is the Lay Delegate on the American Orthopaedic Association Executive Committee.
 
Mr. Smith earned his Bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan College School of Engineering in New York and received his Master’s degree in health administration from the University of South Florida College of Public Health in Tampa.