Ask Jordan Smith Anesthesiologist, what he's proudest of and the answer isn't an award or a title. It's coming full circle from his own cancer experience to become a board-certified anesthesiologist. That sentence contains most of what there is to know about him, and the rest fills in around it.
He was born in Boca Raton, Florida, and diagnosed with leukemia as a child. His route into medicine wasn't one he inherited. It was shaped by that childhood cancer diagnosis, which put him on the patient's side of the operating room long before he ever stood on the physician's side of it. The experience is the reason he became a physician, and the through line shows up in how he talks about his work and in where he has chosen to give his time.
Long before medical school, he was already back in hospitals, this time helping. High school and college years found him volunteering for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, an organization devoted to blood cancer research, patient support, and advocacy. He'd survived the very disease he was volunteering against, which makes the connection personal.
During college he volunteered with the Child Life Program at the University of Florida as well. Supporting pediatric patients and their families through hospitalization is what such programs do, along with helping children understand and cope with medical procedures. A former pediatric cancer patient volunteering there meant returning to that environment from the other side, and it happened years before he set foot in medical school.
That history predates his clinical career and helps explain it. Working with cancer patients and hospitalized children filled his teenage and undergraduate years, well before any of it could count toward a medical school application.
His undergraduate degrees are from the University of Florida. Medical school took him to Florida Atlantic University, where the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine awarded his MD.
Anesthesiology training came from three programs rather than one: Florida Atlantic University, New York University, and Larkin Community Hospital. An unusually broad training footprint is what that adds up to, and it exposed him to academic, community, and high-volume urban practice environments in both Florida and New York.
Several honors are attached to those years. Anderson Scholar with Distinction came in 2010, the David L. Wulkan Scholarship in 2015, and second place in the clinical vignette poster competition at the FAU Medical Student and Resident Research and Scholarship Day in 2016.
He'll say candidly that clinical and entrepreneurial work, not academic work, has been his focus. Instead of a research-heavy path, he concentrated on practicing anesthesiology and building healthcare companies, and his board certification and the businesses he's created are what he considers the more meaningful measures of his work.
The American Board of Anesthesiology certified him in 2024. Florida, New York, and California each list him with an active medical license, and he holds membership in the American Medical Association and the American Society of Anesthesiologists.
He works on a locums basis. Rather than practicing in a single fixed setting, he moves across multiple facilities and regions, in his case across Florida and New York. For a physician who wanted to keep his clinical craft central while building something alongside it, the model fits. Among colleagues he's known for a straightforward clinical approach.
What he built alongside the practice is a set of healthcare companies he owns and operates. City Surgical of Manhattan, a surgery center in New York City, is one. The IV Pro, an intravenous therapy business serving South Florida, is the other, and he founded it. Both were built as healthcare businesses on purpose. Staying inside the field he trained in, rather than diversifying away from it, has been a deliberate call on the part of Dr. Jordan Smith, MD. He describes his working identity as a hybrid of medicine and business rather than a choice between them, and the entrepreneurial streak behind that has led him to launch and lead healthcare ventures in two states.
It's a rarer pairing than it sounds. For most in the specialty, a career gets built inside a hospital system or a single-specialty group. His career sits at the intersection of clinical medicine and business ownership, running on two tracks at once, which means a week can move between the operating room and the operational side of running healthcare facilities and services. He's plain about it. The craft is something he enjoys, a purely administrative role isn't something he wants, and his ongoing clinical practice bears that out.
He's a dedicated weight lifter and a regular at sporting events. Sports cards have been a collecting habit of his for years, and friends and family take up much of his free time. A lifelong Floridian by birth, he'll say his University of Florida years were among the most formative of his life, and college football stays a genuine enthusiasm for him rather than a passing one.
Jordan Benjamin Smith continues to practice as a board-certified anesthesiologist while growing City Surgical of Manhattan and The IV Pro. Where his focus has been since he finished training is where it remains: on delivering anesthesia care and building healthcare businesses that extend what a single physician can reach. Because the career started with a childhood leukemia diagnosis and the decision that came out of it, the work now reads as the continuation of a path chosen early and never left.