The Business Courier will honor Dr. Robert Smith with the 2016 Health Care Heroes Lifetime Achievement Award.
Smith, 94, joined the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in 1975 as the first director of the Department of Family Medicine. He directed the department until 1991, and the following year he was named emeritus professor of the Department of Family & Community Medicine.
He founded the department with two faculty members and built it to 34. Smith also created several fellowship training…
