Amit Sood

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, Rochester, Minnesota, and chair of the Mayo Mind Body Initiative. 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.

Sood held various positions at Mayo Clinic (research fellow, Consultant, Instructor of Medicine) and fellow of the American College of Physicians.

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