Bill Carroll's COVID-19 And College Football Series Coninues Who Is Dr Ackerman? - Video r Michael J. Ackerman, M.D., Ph.D., heads the Sudden Death Genomics Lab which works on developing new treatments and studying cardiac channelopathies, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and postmortem genetic testing. Dr. Ackerman is a distinguished physician and researcher. Dr. Ackerman is a pediatric cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and holds the Windland Smith Rice Cardiovascular Genomics Research Professorship. He is a professor of medicine, a professor of pediatrics and a professor of pharmacology at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science. He joined the staff of Mayo Clinic in July 2000 as a senior associate consultant and assistant professor in medicine and pediatrics. Dr. Ackerman graduated Summa cum Laude in 1988 from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, with a B.A. in mathematics. In 1995, he earned an M.D. and a Ph.D. from Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Mayo Clin