Dr. Robert Smith completed his BS degree with highest distinction and Honors in biochemistry from Indiana University in 1990. He completed his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan in 1997, and completed a research track residency in Psychiatry in 2002. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious ACNP travel award, the ACP Laughlin Fellowship, the ECNP Rafaelsen Scholar, as well as the Kempf Fund award from the APA. He has been continuously funded for the past 20 years by NIH, with work focusing on the pathophysiology of complex brain disorders, including schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s dementia. His recent work includes using bioinformatics approaches to test hypotheses using large publicly available databases, with the goal of repurposing or first-purposing FDA approved drugs or library-sourced compounds, respectively. Dr. Smith is currently the Chair of the Neurosciences and Psychiatry Department at the University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences, as well as the Research Director of the ProMedica Neurosciences Center, Toledo, OH, USA.