Bindu Akkanti MD, FCCP

Dr Bindu Akkanti joined UTHealth Houston in 2013 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Assistant Dean of Clinical Education at McGovern Medical School. In her role as Assistant Dean, she is dedicated to enhancing the clinical education of medical students across all McGovern Medical School campuses, striving to create consistent, high-quality, and compassionate learning experiences that prepare students for excellence in patient care. She is a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. She completed her internship in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and pursued a residency at Boston University Medical Centre.

She then completed her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, where she trained in critical care, lung cancer, asthma, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, lung transplantation, and other advanced lung diseases through rotations at Ben Taub General Hospital, The Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr Akkanti also completed the Clinical Scientist Training Program, conducting bioinformatics-based translational research in lung cancer under Dr Francesco DeMayo in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine.