Dr. Allison Smith is a native of West Virginia and attended West Virginia University for her undergraduate and medical school training. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine and Psychiatry and fellowship training in Addiction Psychiatry at MUSC. She joined as faculty in July 2020 as an Assistant Professor with a dual appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Internal Medicine. Her passion is caring for medically complicated patients with co-morbid psychiatric diagnoses and substance use disorders and treating chronic pain, geriatric, and transplant patients.
She currently splits her time in the inpatient setting as a Consult Liaison attending and in the outpatient setting supervising residents in the Bio-behavioral Medicine Clinic. She also spends time researching with a special interest in addiction and innovative, integrated models of care. She is the Primary Investigator for a state grant that has expanded addiction-based services in the inpatient hospital setting, which won an award for an innovative model for integrated care at the national AMP conference in 2022. She also serves as the Medical Director of the Division of Biobehavioral Medicine.
Board Certifications:Addiction Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Internal Medicine
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