Ms Smyth graduated with honours from University College Dublin in 2005. She undertook her basic and higher surgical training through the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and completed her FRCS(Urol) in 2014.

In 2017, she was awarded the British Association of Urology (BAUS) Subspecialty Fellowship in Female Urology in Leicester, United Kingdom, where she developed a special interest in the management of urinary incontinence, urological reconstruction and pelvic organ prolapse.

Ms Smyth worked as a consultant urologist in the Female, Functional and Reconstructive Urology Department of the prestigious University College London Hospital (UCLH). Upon returning to Ireland in 2019, she was appointed as a Consultant Urological Surgeon in Tallaght University and St. James's Hospitals.

• British Urological Foundation research grant, 2008
• Gussie Mehigan scholarship, Royal College of Surgeons Ireland & University College, Dublin, 2008
• Medical Trainee Scholarship, University College Dublin, 2009-2010 Irish Society of Urology Best Clinical Research Paper, September 2017 BAUS Subspecialty Fellowship in Female Urology in Leicester, 2017

• The Irish Society of Urology (ISU).