Dr. Miya Smith was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri. She attended undergrad at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in Russian as well as Cognitive Disorders and Human Behavior. She remained in Nashville to attend medical school at Meharry Medical College. She completed Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Chicago, where she was also a chief resident. It was in residency, through her work in with interpersonal violence and human trafficking, that she discovered an interest in Toxicology as an important part of forensic medicine. She further explored her interest in Toxicology and is currently in fellowship at UT Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. Her interests include forensic toxicology, addiction medicine, and unconventional applications of and non-clinical pathways in toxicology.