Martin Smith is a graduate of The College of St Scholatica, American Intercontinental University and St Petersburg College, FL Health Information Management Program. He achieved the credential of RHIA in 2012, RHIT in 2003 and, CCA in 2004. He has been an instructor at SPC since the spring of 2003. He completed his Masters degree in Healthcare Informatics and Health Information Management in 2012 and a masters degree of Education in Instructional Technology in 2006. He is an active member in local and state associations and recently served on the board of directors at the Florida Health Information Management Association (FHIMA).

Mr. Smith comes from England where he was a police officer in the Metropolitan Police Service at New Scotland Yard. He has worked at Tampa General Hospital, Mease Countryside and Mease Dunedin Hospitals,  and was a combat medic in the US Army prior to entering the HIM program. He worked as a coder at Shriners Hospital for Children and currently teaches fulltime at a university in Boston in addition to an adjunct instructor at SPC.

Hobbies include soccer, restoring an old Ford pick-up truck, movies, historic reading and everything to do with his grandchildren.