r. Smith was a professor of philosophy at the Diocesan Seminary on Long Island during the 1960's. He spent 22 years at the University of the State of New York at Stony Brook, first as Catholic Chaplain and later establishing the chaplaincy program at the University Medical Center. For the last seven years at Stony Brook, he served as the founding Director of the Institute for Medicine in Contemporary Society in the School of Medicine. Before coming to Cornell, he directed a project on Long Island developing interfaith conversations about religion and contemporary culture. Back->