Amit Sood | |
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Born | |
Alma mater | Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, AIIMS, New Delhi |
Occupation(s) | Integrative medicine practitioner, researcher, physician and writer |
Title | Professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine |
Spouse | Richa Sood |
Website | www |
Amit Sood, known as the "Happiness Doctor",[1] is the founder and executive director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing.[2] Formerly, he was a professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the Mayo Mind Body Initiative.[3] He completed degrees in medicine from Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.[4]
Sood held various positions at Mayo Clinic (research fellow, Consultant, Instructor of Medicine) and fellow of the American College of Physicians.[5][6]
He's the co-developer of HappiGenius, a program designed on social-emotional learning for children.[1]