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Dr. Bindu Akkanti, MD

Pulmonary Disease Critical Care

Dr. Bindu Akkanti earned her medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. She completed her internship in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston and her residency training at Boston University Medical Center in Massachusetts. She then returned to BCM to complete her fellowship in pulmo...

Dr. Bindu Akkanti earned her medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. She completed her internship in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston and her residency training at Boston University Medical Center in Massachusetts. She then returned to BCM to complete her fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine and served as Chief Fellow. Following her fellowship, she pursued bioinformatics- based translational research in lung cancer in the BCM department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.

Board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine and critical care, Dr. Akkanti has clinical interests that include the diagnosis and management of critically ill adult patients, critical care, lung cancer, asthma, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, cystic fibrosis, lung transplantation, and other advanced lung diseases. Her research interests include determining gene expression signatures in critically ill patients and in patients with advanced lung diseases utilizing bioinformatics resources.

Dr. Akkanti currently serves as an assistant professor of Critical Care at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School. She is an active member in the Larry D. Johnson Heart & Vascular Institute at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center and works with a large multidisciplinary team caring for adult heart failure patients fitted with mechanical devices.

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6411 Fannin St, Houston, TX 77030
(713) 704-4000 | (713) 704-5269 Fax
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6400 Fannin St, Ste 2500, Houston, TX 77030
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6400 Fannin St, Ste 2500, Houston, TX 77030
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Meet the Provider

Specialties
  • Pulmonary Disease Critical Care
Medical Education

University of Texas Southwestern Medical School 2004

Languages Spoken
  • English
Fellowship

Baylor College of Medicine 2011

Affiliated Centers
  • Memorial Hermann Southwest Hospital
  • Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center
Gender

Female

Internship & Residency

Baylor College of Medicine - Neuromuscular Medicine 2005, Boston University School of Medicine 2008

PCP Number

100000052264

Cities Served

Bellaire, Galena Park, Houston, Missouri City

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