Dr. David Smithson received his undergraduate degree at the University of Mississippi in 1975, and completed his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma in 1980. After completing his Internship at Baptist Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee in 1981, Dr. Smithson fulfilled his Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Oklahoma’s Tulsa Medical College in 1990. Dr. Smithson completed his Sports Medicine Fellowship in 1994 in Birmingham, Alabama. Dr. Smithson is Board Certified in both Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine. Dr. Smithson also served as a Team Physician for the Auburn University Athletic Department from 1994 through 1996. Dr. Smithson served as an Internal Medicine representative to the Sports Medicine examination committee in 2002 and 2003 and helped to write the Sports Medicine National Board Exam.