Cathy Smith has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin. She is licensed in Pharmacy in the States of Texas and Michigan, and was licensed in California for some time. She has been a hospital pharmacist for twenty-three years and has worked as a clinical hospital pharmacist at a southeast Michigan teaching hospital for the last thirteen years. Her dietary turmeric needs are met monthly, as she enjoys Shrimp Curry at her local Skeptics in the Pub meeting.