Dr. Darron Smith

Dr. Darron T. Smith is a frequent writer for Huffington Post and other media outlets. His background includes 17 years of medical experience as a primary care health care provider with an attention to how stress affects health and well-being particularly for the vulnerable and underserved populations. Dr. Smith’s research spans a wide myriad of topics including healthcare inequalities, religious studies, race & sports, transracial adoption and the black family. He is the co-author of White Parents, Black Children: Experiencing Transracial Adoption as well as the co-editor of Black and Mormon and The Impact of Social Factors on Health: A Critical Reader for the Physician Assistant. His current book, When Race, Religion & Sports Collide: Black Athletes at BYU and Beyond (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442217881/When-Race-Religion-and-Sport-Collide-Black-Athletes-at-BYU-and-Beyond), is scheduled for release in November 2015. He is frequent political and cultural commentator for Huffington Post and Your Black World on various issues of U.S.-based oppression. He has also contributed to various forums from Religion Dispatches and ESPN's Outside the Lines to the New York Times and Chicago Tribune op-ed sections.