Ted Smith is an associate professor of environmental medicine and deputy director of the Envirome Institute at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. His research program is focused on how human health depends upon components of the natural environment and how this affiliation modifies cardiometabolic disease risk. Smith is also the director of the Envirome Institute’s Center for Healthy Air, Water and Soil. He previously served as chief innovation officer for the City of Louisville, where he created AIRLouisville, the largest real-time asthma surveillance research MS and PhD in experimental psychology from Miami University, and completed his post-doctoral studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).