Amanda MD

Dr. Amanda Smith is a psychiatrist in Tampa, Florida and is affiliated with Tampa General Hospital. She received her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College and has been in practice for 17 years. She is one of 33 doctors at Tampa General Hospital who specialize in Psychiatry. Dr. Amanda Grant Smith is the Interim Director of the Eric Pfeiffer Suncoast Alzheimer’s and Gerontology Center at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. She received her undergraduate degree from Emory University in Atlanta, GA in 1992 and her medical degree from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA in 1997. She did her internship, residency in psychiatry, and fellowship in geriatric psychiatry at the University of South Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Smith is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, with subspecialty certification in geriatric psychiatry. She is a 2008 graduate of the USF Leadership Institute. Her work at Suncoast focuses on the diagnosis and treatment of memory disorders, caregiver education and support, and clinical research in Alzheimer’s disease. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the Alzheimer’s Disease Cooperative Study (a federally funded consortium of academic research centers run through the University of California, San Diego) and serves as a site PI for their trials. She is a USF Health correspondent to the Tampa Tribune on aging issues. She is active in medical student and resident education. She sits on several committees within the University of South Florida including the USF Clinical and Translational Scientific Institute’s Neuroscience Signature Program Protocol Review Committee, the USF Institutional Review Board, and a newly formed IRB advisory subcommittee on cognitively impaired subjects. She is a member of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry and a charter member of ISTAART, the International Society to Advance Alzheimer Research and Treatment.