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Dr. Sidney C. Smith, Jr, is professor of medicine and director of the Center for Cardiovascular Science and Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Smith received his medical degree from Yale Medical School and completed his medical internship, residency, and cardiology fellowship at the Peter Bent Brigham (now Brigham and Women's) Hospital/Harvard Medical School in Boston.

Dr. Smith is a past president of the American Heart Association (AHA) (1995-1996) and past member of AHA board of directors. He served as the chief science officer for the AHA from 2001 to 2003 and has served multiple appointments on the AHA Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee. He chaired the ACC/AHA guideline committee to revise PCI guidelines, served on the committee on guidelines for the management of acute myocardial infarction (STEMI), and chaired the AHA/ACC Guidelines on Secondary Prevention for patients with atherosclerotic vascular disease. He served as co-chair of the 2004 ACC/AHA Bethesda Conference on Professionalism and Ethics. Dr. Smith chaired the ACC/AHA task force on practice guidelines from 2006 to 2009.

Dr. Smith is president-elect of the World Heart Federation(WHF) from 2009-2011 and will serve as the WHF President from 2011-2013. He currently chairs the Scientific Advisory Board of the WHF and was co-chair of the scientific program for the 2010 World Congress of Cardiology in Beijing, China. He serves as chair of the executive committee for the new National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health's Integrated Guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease and is a senior advisor to the NHLBI.

Dr. Smith has been elected to fellow status in a number of associations including the American Heart Association, American College of Physicians, American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology, and Royal Society of Medicine. In 2008 he was the recipient of honorary fellowship in the Japanese Circulation Society. Among his many honors include the American Heart Association's Physician of the Year Award (1993), Distinguished National Leadership Award (1996), Gold Heart Award (2001), and Eugene Drake Award (2003); and the NHLBI/NIH Award of Special Recognition (2003).

Dr. Smith has authored or co-authored more than 300 published papers and chapters and has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology, Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Circulation. He has spoken about heart disease and stroke in interviews with CNN, CBS, and NBC, and quoted widely by multiple national and international media. He has been elected annually to Best Doctors in America since 1998.