Amit Sood, known as the "Happiness Doctor",[1] is the founder and executive director of the Global Center for Resiliency and Wellbeing.

[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] Sood's papers with more than two hundred citations apiece include the following:[7]