Dr. Rajiv Sood, M.D., FACS, is a distinguished reconstructive plastic surgeon who joined the Joseph M. Still Burn Centers in January 2023 and currently serves as the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services.

Dr. Sood completed his general surgery residency at Temple University and a plastic surgery residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He went on to complete a hand, nerve, and microsurgical fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital’s Raymond Curtis Hand Center.

After his training, Dr. Sood joined the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty and became a member of the University Plastic Surgeons, where he eventually served as the Chairman of Plastic Surgery and Program Director for four years. He also recently served as the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Services for the Burn and Reconstructive Centers of America for two years before taking on the same role for the JMS network of burn centers.

Known throughout the United States and internationally for his research interests, Dr. Sood has earned a reputation as an investigator and leader in research and clinical experience for emerging technologies in skin replacement. He has also been awarded multiple grants, written more than 60 articles and 16 book chapters, and edited and co-authored the 2006 book, "Burn Reconstruction and Rehabilitation."

Dr. Sood has presented more than 250 papers regionally, nationally, and internationally and has led teams of burn staff on international medical mission trips to El Salvador and Kenya to provide care to impoverished pediatric and adult burn patients and to breast cancer survivors. His primary interests include acute and reconstructive burn surgery, treatment of acute and chronic wounds, and management of other skin disorders.