Todd Smith - Veterinarian

Dr. Todd Smith was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, and grew up in Gainesville, Florida, and Plainwell, Michigan, before settling in Raleigh, North Carolina.

He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1994 with a degree in Russian history. He then attended North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, where he received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree in 1999.

Dr. Smith started his veterinary career as a general practitioner in Concord, North Carolina but quickly realized that his passions lay elsewhere. Dr. Smith started his emergency career in 2000 with a specialty/referral hospital. He has spent the greater part of the past 22 years as an emergency veterinarian practicing in the Charlotte area. During that time, he has served as an Emergency Director, a Medical Director, and a Regional Emergency Director at several locations. Throughout his career, soft tissue surgery has been Dr. Smith’s ardor, and he is looking forward to focusing more on surgery in the future.

Dr. Smith and his family have been residents of Cornelius since 2003. Dr. Smith and his wife, Jenifer, have two children, Ian and Ava, who are both students at Davidson College. They have four dogs and an American Saddlebred horse. His daughter, Ava, has a service dog named Daphne, which she acquired through paws4people. In his downtime, Dr. Smith enjoys playing the bass guitar in local bars and at area events with his band, Toxic Spouse.