Amit Sood, known as the "Happiness Doctor", is the founder and executive director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing. Formerly, he was a professor of medicine at

Mayo Clinic College of Medicine The Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science (MCCMS; formerly known as Mayo Clinic College of Medicine) is a private graduate-only research university based in Rochester, Minnesota, United States. It trains physicians, scientists, and allied ...

, Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the Mayo Mind Body Initiative. He completed degrees in medicine from

Gandhi Medical College Gandhi Medical College and Hospital (GMC) is a public medical college in Secunderabad, India. It is affiliated with Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. The college was originally affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences ...

Bhopal Bhopal (; ISO 15919, ISO: Bhōpāl, ) is the capital (political), capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the ''City of Lakes,'' due to ...

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, New Delhi and

Albert Einstein College of Medicine The Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a Private university, private medical school in New York City. Founded in 1953, Einstein is an independent degree-granting institution within the Montefiore Einstein Health System. Einstein hosts Doc ...

, New York. Sood held various positions at Mayo Clinic (research fellow, Consultant, Instructor of Medicine) and fellow of the

American College of Physicians The American College of Physicians (ACP) is a Philadelphia-based national organization of internal medicine physicians, who specialize in the diagnosis, treatment, and care of adults. With 161,000 members, ACP is the largest medical-specialty or ...

. He's the co-developer of HappiGenius, a program designed on social-emotional learning for children.

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Peer-reviewed papers

Sood's papers with more than two hundred citations apiece include the following:
Google Scholar Author page, Accessed May 23, 2021 *Sood A, Prasad K, Schroeder D, Varkey P. Stress management and resilience training among Department of Medicine faculty: a pilot randomized clinical trial.

Journal of General Internal Medicine The ''Journal of General Internal Medicine'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal established in 1986 and covering internal medicine. It is published by Springer Nature and is the official journal of the Society of General Internal Medicine. ...

. 2011 Aug 1;26(8):858-61. *Loprinzi CE, Prasad K, Schroeder DR, Sood A. Stress Management and Resilience Training (SMART) program to decrease stress and enhance resilience among breast cancer survivors: a pilot randomized clinical trial. Clinical breast cancer. 2011 Dec 1;11(6):364-8. *Barton DL, Liu H, Dakhil SR, Linquist B, Sloan JA, Nichols CR, McGinn TW, Stella PJ, Seeger GR, Sood A, Loprinzi CL. Wisconsin Ginseng (Panax quinquefolius) to improve cancer-related fatigue: a randomized, double-blind trial, N07C2.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute The ''Journal of the National Cancer Institute'' (''JNCI'') is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in oncology that was established in August 1940. It is published monthly by Oxford University Press and is edited by Patricia A. Gan ...

. 2013 Aug 21;105(16):1230-8. (258 citation) *Leppin AL, Bora PR, Tilburt JC, Gionfriddo MR, Zeballos-Palacios C, Dulohery MM, SoodA, Erwin PJ, Brito JP, Boehmer KR, Montori VM. The efficacy of resiliency training programs: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials. PloS one. 2014 Oct 27;9(10):e111420. *Bardia A, Tleyjeh IM, Cerhan JR, Sood AK, Limburg PJ, Erwin PJ, Montori VM. Efficacy of antioxidant supplementation in reducing primary cancer incidence and mortality: systematic review and meta-analysis. InMayo Clinic Proceedings 2008 Jan 1 (Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 23–34). Elsevier.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sood, Amit Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American health professionals of Indian descent Indian emigrants to the United States 20th-century Indian medical doctors Indian self-help writers New Age writers People from Bhopal Medical doctors from Madhya Pradesh