Gayle Schrier Smith, M.D.

Dr. Smith has served the healthcare needs of children in Richmond for more than twenty years. She is a native of Pittsburgh and a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia. She completed her internship and residency at the Children’s Medical Center of VCU (back when it was called MCV) and is board-certified by the American Board of Pediatrics. She is also a fellow and spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. She is married to an amazing chef masquerading as a mechanical engineer and the proud mother of chinchilla-loving kids who span every developmental age and stage.

Play the Guessing Game.
Get to know her a little better when you guess 3 Truths & A Fib?

She drives a hybrid car that got 49 mpg one time.

True?

True!

Someday she will go back to driving her all time favorite car, a miata, but until then…

She grew up in a big family, married into a bigger family, and has five children of her own

True?

True!

Three boys and two girls born over a blessed ten years!

Loves camping and fishing and vacations in remote places
True?
Fib
Dr. Smith’s idea of camping is a hotel in the woods, and thinks fish is great for dinner but not if you have to bait a hook with worms to have it!
Has a degree in Physiology and Biophysics.
True?
Truth!
Dr. Smith decided to go to medical school after studying free-radical biophysics in the heart.