WHO IS ANNA SMITH?
Anna Smith, PA-C is a trauma-informed federal whistleblower, medical strategist, and founder of Smith CODA Group™—an ethics and legal-literary initiative exposing systemic harm in healthcare, employment law, and prenatal diagnostics. She created the global r/NIPT community to support families navigating abnormal test results and founded Smith CODA to fight the silence surrounding medical gaslighting, retaliatory terminations, and emotional harm. With over 6.7 million views per year and 10,000+ community members, her work has reshaped the global conversation on patient rights, diagnostic ethics, and legal survival after systemic collapse she helped to expose.
Why This Moment Matters
This photo was taken on the most monumental day of my life:
The day I gave birth to my son—alive.
After five miscarriages. After a baby lost in the second trimester with no brain. After five IVF cycles. After 12 embryos miscarried by three different surrogates. After two “normal” NIPTs told me everything was fine—when it wasn’t. After everyone ignored the SPERM.
Let’s do the math: • 5 natural eggs • 30 frozen at age 28 • ~125 more across 5 IVF cycles = ~150 eggs. And only 2 embryos survived.. after ALL that, eventually—my daughters. Not because I wasn’t healthy. Not because I waited too long. Because it was a numbers game of which egg could repair the broken sperm.
Then came my son. New sperm. First try. No issues. Peace. The terror ended. I scheduled mu elective C-section because I would rather have my body cut in a billion ways than risk THE ONLY PREGNANCY out of 150 eggs that I carried, and I was going to bring him home alive, period. I exhaled. And I got my dignity back.
I was right. I was always right. And I didn’t quit—even when everyone else did.
My life is complete now. And to the couple who received my donor embryo: your baby worked on the first try too.
Because when we listen to women, and when we listen to the data—they are often the same thing.
Anna Smith, PA-C is a nationally credentialed medical professional, systems analyst, and patient advocate who led one of the most significant grassroots exposures of the prenatal testing industry to date. After witnessing hundreds of families navigate false positive results, incomplete genetic counseling, and irreversible decisions, she built what the billion-dollar labs wouldn’t: r/NIPT, the only global support network dedicated to scientific truth, diagnostic clarity, and survivor-led reform.
Viewed by over 6 million times annually and has increased on average 2 million per year views, the r/NIPT subreddit has become the first stop for families confronting abnormal test results, seeking second opinions, or questioning the accuracy of commercial prenatal screens. It stands as both a knowledge base and a lifeline for those abandoned by traditional systems.
Anna’s work spans medical ethics, diagnostic accountability, and trauma-informed consulting for families and institutions under systemic pressure. She holds dual degrees in Biology and Biochemistry from Texas A&M University (2007) and earned her MPAS from UT Southwestern Medical School (2010). She is NCCPA-certified and brings over 15 years of clinical experience across neurosurgery, women’s health, and high-risk diagnostic triage.
But her authority didn’t begin in a clinic—it began in the wreckage of silence.
Anna was one of the first public voices to expose the systemic neglect of male factor infertility, teaching herself andrology, embryo development, and DNA fragmentation science long before the industry acknowledged its impact. She consumed and internalized the entire body of clinical work from Dr. Ashok Agarwal and the Cleveland Clinic—not as a student, but as a woman being medically gaslit while fighting for a child through IVF and surrogacy.
“Before DNA fragmentation trended on TikTok, I was reading PubMed on the floor, begging the system to pay attention. And when it didn’t, I started naming the biology myself.”
She founded r/NIPT not just to hold space, but to name the cracks in a system that falsely declared them rare. She identified the underlying embryonic phenomena—confined placental mosaicism, trophectodermal chromosomal sorting, trisomy rescue mechanisms, and NIPT/PGS discrepancy zones—and translated them into real-world decisions for families on the edge of irreversible termination.
“I named it when Google didn’t have the words. That’s not activism. That’s informed survival.”
She is now a public consultant for diagnostic reform, clinical misinformation correction, and ethics-based system restructuring.