David Smithard

Professor Smithard is a clinician researcher based in the Southeast of Greater London. He qualified form the London Hospital Medical College in 1986, obtaining his MD from London University in 1997. He is immediate past President and founder member of the UK Swallowing Research Group and has been a board member of the European Society for Swallowing Disorders and Hon Secretary and founder member of the British Association of Stroke Physicians. He has been awarded an honorary Fellowship by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and is a Visiting Professor at Greenwich University. He is the ICMDA Regional Secretary for Europe and the editor of Triple Helix, magazine of the Christian Medical Fellowship, UK.