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Dorothy L. Smith BSP’68

Dr. Smith is an internationally recognized author, patient advocate, and expert in patient compliance with medications. The author of 23 books, her professional career has been devoted to developing programs and materials for patients, employees, and consumers, giving them the information they need to make informed decisions about their health care and medication use. Based on her real life interactions with patients in clinical practice settings, Dr. Smith also developed one of the first ambulatory patient counselling programs in which patients receive private counselling from a pharmacist every time they received a prescription.