Brian W. Smith, PhD, MBA

Brian W. Smith helps growing medical groups with efficiency, sustainability, and profitability by leveraging data for operations improvement. He is the founder of Galvanic Health, a boutique consulting practice combining proprietary data analytics with strategic insights to drive practice performance. Brian’s experience includes machine learning for medical event prediction, and he was a key member of a Stage 1 Finalist team in the CMS Artificial Intelligence Health Outcomes Challenge. Brian was formerly Chief Operating Officer at United Rheumatology (now Specialty Networks), a national management services organization, where he led the creation of a Qualified Clinical Data Registry to support quality reporting for value-based initiatives. He also served as Chief Business Officer of a scaling specialty practice and has held leadership roles in two hospital systems. He started his career as a research scientist, which was the genesis of his focus on data-driven decision-making. Brian holds an MBA from The Wharton School, a PhD in engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and Six Sigma Black Belt certification from the University of Michigan.