Dr Tracy Smith, PhD

Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Biography

Dr. Tracy Smith is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Medical University of South Carolina and Co-Leader of the Cancer Prevention and Control Program at Hollings Cancer Center. Dr. Smith conducts tobacco regulatory science, which is science that aims to provide FDA and other regulatory bodies with information about how best to regulate tobacco with the goal of improving public health. The focus of Dr. Smith’s research is regulations and interventions that might move people away from combustible tobacco products, which are responsible for the vast majority of the harm from tobacco. This includes research on regulations that might reduce the addictiveness or appeal of combustible cigarettes, including reducing nicotine to nonaddictive levels or banning menthol from cigarettes. Her program of research also includes trials assessing the impact of non-cigarette tobacco products as harm reduction tools. Dr. Smith has published more than 75 peer-reviewed papers, and received funding from the National Cancer Institute, National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Food and Drug Administration. She currently serves as PI or MPI on 6 R01 clinical trials. In 2020, she received the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco Jarvik-Russell Early Career Award for outstanding contributions to the field of nicotine and tobacco early in her career.