William T. Smith, Ph.D. is President/Chief Executive Officer of Aging in America, Inc.
Aging in America is the parent corporation of AlA Supportive Services, Morningside at
Home, and Morningside House Nursing Home. All are non-profit, non-sectarian
agencies.
Dr. Smith has been in the field of social work since 1971 with the last forty years
dedicated to the field of gerontology. He has been recognized locally and nationally as
an expert on gerontological issues.
Dr. Smith was fonnerly the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of St. Cabrini
Nursing Home in Dobbs Ferry, New York for thirteen years. Before that he was Assistant
Executive Director of Frances Schervier Home and Hospital, Bronx, New York. He is also
an Assistant Professor of Public Health Administration at Pace University, and an Adjunct
Professor in the School of Social Services at Fordham University.
Dr. Smith, whose doctorate in Social Work with a concentration in Gerontology is from
Fordham University, has also earned a Master's in Social Work in Administration/Case
Work from Hunter College and a Bachelor of Science in Family and Child Welfare
Services from the University of Wisconsin.
He is a member of the National Association of Social Workers, the Gerontological Society
of America, the American College of Health Care Administrators, and the Academy of
Certified Social Workers. He served as a member of the Federal Advisory Committee on
the Future of VA Long Tenn Care. He was a member of the Board of Directors and Past
Chair ofLeadingAge (fonnerly the American Association of Homes and Services for the
Aging) in Washington, D.C. He is a fonner Chair of LeadingAgeNY (formerly the New
York Association of Homes and Services for the Aging). Dr. Smith is a former member of
the Board of Directors of the lnternational Association of Homes and Services for the
Aging and serves as liaison to the United Nations. He was a member of the Board of
Governors of the Greater New York Hospital Association and was a member of the Board
of Directors of the Continuing Care Leadership Coalition. He was a member of the Board
of Directors of the Dominican Sisters Family Health Services, Inc. for twenty years,
serving as Chair for nine years. He served on the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation National Steering Committee on the
future of the paraprofessional long-term care workforce. He was a delegate to the 2005
White House Conference on Aging. He received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor 2006 for
his dedication to community service, building bridges between ethnic, racial and religious
groups, sharing personal and professional gifts with the local, national or international
community and contributing distinguished service to humanity in particular for his work on
behalf of older persons. Dr. Smith is a licensed nursing home administrator, a certified
social worker, and a certified retirement housing professional.
From 2012 through 2014, he managed a successful sale of Morningside House Nursing
Home (314 skilled nursing beds) and Morningside at Homes Assisted Living Program (40
beds). Since 2014, he has been planning the redirection of Aging in America, lnc.'s future,
utilizing the proceeds of the sale while developing new lines of products and services and
cultivating new streams of revenue.