Dallas Smith
Executive Vice President, C.A.R.E. Channel Producer

Born in Columbus, Georgia, Dallas attended Florida State University and then went on to study in Germany, India, and Sweden. Following schooling, he performed as a woodwinds jazz musician in the San Francisco Bay area, India, Japan, and Europe.

From 1987-1992, he was the chairman of the Department of Recording Studies at Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village, Nevada. Dallas has taught CEU and CME courses for nurses and physicians since 1989, and has been asked back to do further training at such facilities such as the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas; St. Charles Medical Center in Bend, Oregon, and Union Hospital in Lynn, Massachusetts.

As executive vice president of Healing HealthCare Systems, Dallas is the producer of audio/video programming for The C.A.R.E. Channel, The C.A.R.E. Channel with Guided Imagery, C.A.R.E. With Music, C.A.R.E. on Hold, and C.A.R.E. at Home. He also co-facilitates the company's educational programs.

Published Books & Articles:
Sound Choices: Using Music to Design the Environments in Which You Live, Work, and Heal (Hay House, 1999)
"Beyond Silence: Music as Environmental Design," Innovations in Healthcare Design (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995)
"Beyond Silence: Music as Environmental Design," Journal of Healthcare Design, Volume V (The Center for Health Design, 1993)
"The Role of Music Within a Healing Environment," The Innovator, Spring 1993. "...Sing a Song for the Sick and Tense..." The Healing Journal, 1992, Vol. 3, No.1.

Speaking:
Association for the Care of Children's Health conference
Association of Healing Health Care Projects conference
Cancer as a Turning Point conference
HEALTHCARE DESIGN conference
Healthcare Forum national conference
Nursing 2002
Press Ganey client conference
Symposium on Healthcare Design

Awards
President's Award, Sierra Arts Foundation, 2005

Leland R. Kaiser Founder's Award in Healing Healthcare, 1997

Music:
National Public Radio
NOVA
Public Broadcasting System
The Discovery Channel