Dr. Smolenski's career in medicine has included outpatient psychiatry private practice in California and Hawaii, inpatient hospital positions (Psychiatric  Emergency Room Services, Forensic Unit Chief, Associate Medical Director at El Camino Hospital), as well as an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu. Presently Dr. Smolenski is in private practice in Mountain View, California. He is also a member of Medical Staff at El Camino Hospital.

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He attended Stanford University for his premedical education, and received his M.D. degree from the University of California at Davis. He completed the residency training in psychiatry at the University of California at San Francisco, and has been board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. 

 

Prior to his medical career, Dr. Smolenski completed graduate study in engineering, held a position of an assistant professor in engineering, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Dr. Smolenski's first training to perform Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation as treatment for depression was in Dr. Mark George's Clinic at the Medical University of South Carolina. At that time Dr. Smolenski was one of the first psychiatrists in private practice in the United States who was treating patients using his prototype TMS setup.