Bio
Ian K. Smith is an American physician, author and television personality best known for his appearances on VH1's Celebrity Fit Club series, The View, as a correspondent for NBC News and as a recurring co-host on the medical-themed talk show The Doctors.
Smith is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Shred, the 4 Day Diet, The Fat Smash Diet and Extreme Fat Smash Diet. He is a medical contributor to The Rachael Ray Show and host of the nationally syndicated radio show HealthWatch.
He is the former medical correspondent for NBC News network and for NewsChannel 4 where he filed reports for NBC's Nightly News and the Today show as well as WNBC's various news broadcasts.
He has appeared extensively on various broadcasts including The Oprah Show, Good Morning America CBS This Morning The View, The Talk, Dr. Oz, Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360 and Showbiz Tonight.
He has written for various publications including Time, Newsweek, Men's Health, and the New York Daily News, and has been featured in several other publications including, Publisher's Weekly, Red Book, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, People, Essence, Ebony, University of Chicago Medicine on the Midway, Cosmopolitan, Women's World, and Black Enterprise.
Dr. Smith is the founder of two major national health initiatives — the 50 Million Pound Challenge and the Makeover Mile — that have helped millions of people lose weight and improve their health.
A graduate of Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Dr. Smith was appointed to the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition in 2010.