Stephen Smith, MD
Board Member
Dr. Smith is a pathologist and serves as the Medical Director of the Laboratory at Hilo Medical Center.
Over the last 15 years, he has been an active and involved member of the medical staff at the hospital. Dr.
Smith earned his medical degree at the formerly named Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest
University in North Carolina. He did his postgraduate studies in Pathology at Wake Forest University
Baptist Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He earned his Bachelors of
Science in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also serves as a member of the
Board of Directors of the Cave Conservancy of Hawaii. Dr. Smith has been personally invested in Hawai’i
for over 30 years and has called Hawai’i his home since 2004.