University of Texas Health Science Center At Houston
Dr. Akkanti joined UTHealth in 2013 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Medicine. 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 Center. She completed her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and was trained in the areas of critical care, lung cancer, asthma, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, lung transplantation, and other advanced lung diseases while on rotations at Ben Taub General Hospital, The Methodist Hospital, St. Luke’s Hospital, and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Akkanti later joined the Clinical Scientist Training Program and pursued bioinformatics based translational research in lung cancer under the guidance of Dr. Francesco DeMayo in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Baylor College of Medicine. She is also the founder of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation program in the Wellness Center at Memorial Hermann – TMC.