Akshay Sood, MD

Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Disease

Biography

Akshay Sood is a tenured Professor and the founding Miners’ Colfax Medical Center Endowed Chair at the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine. Dr. Sood received his postdoctoral fellowship in Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He is currently the Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Faculty Retention at the University of New Mexico’s School of Medicine.
Dr. Sood’s research has focused on non-smoking host risk factors for obstructive lung diseases, including inhalational dust exposure. He has received funding for K-23 and P50 grants by the NHLBI, R01 grant by the AHRQ, R13 grant by the NIEHS, UL1 grant by the NCATS, Pipeline to Proposal grants by PCORI and various HRSA-funded and Foundation grants.
Passionate about the role of mentoring junior faculty, he has helped lead the UNM Health Science Center Faculty Mentor Development Program. He is the Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Faculty Retention Activities at the UNM Health Science Center Office of Faculty Affairs and Career Development. He has presented his research on mentor development and faculty exit interview strategy at the UNM Mentoring Conference/AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs’ Conference and his work on mentor development has been published in Academic Medicine, Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, and the Chronicle of Mentoring and Coaching. He is the P.I. of a multi-institutional U01 grant on the “Effectiveness of Innovative Research Mentor Interventions among Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the Southwest (NIGMS U01GM132175-01)”.