He is the recipient of the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 2006. He has published extensively in English, French and Spanish. Dr. Todd received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and his MPH in Epidemiology from the UCLA School of Public Health. He began his academic career at Emory University in Atlanta and subsequently moved to New York where he joined the faculty of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and established the Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. In 2011, he became the founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.