Prakash SS

Advance Course in Medical Education (2021A batch) at the NMC Nodal Centre, CMC Vellore

Member and resource faculty at Medical Education Department, CMC, Vellore

TEACHING

MD trainees – facilitate learning during seminars and journal clubs, supervise practical classes, training on teaching learning activities for MBBS and Nursing students in practical classes and small group learning activities. Conduct internal assessments and provide feedback.

MBBS students – facilitate learning during lectures, practical classes, and small group learning activities. Plan and conduct assessments and provide feedback to improve learning.

Nursing students – Drafting schedules and coordinating the teaching program, facilitate learning during lectures, and small group learning activities. Plan and conduct assessments and provide feedback to improve learning.

Allied health students – facilitate learning during lectures. Conduct assessments and provide feedback to improve learning.  

Development and implementation of new teaching-learning methods, study materials, peer review of internal assessment question papers

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Conceptual and theoretical research in Biochemistry and Immunology

2. Foundations and interactions of immune system and metabolic system 

3. Medical education research – career choices of medical students

4. Critical appraisal of medical and scientific research

5. Epistemological issues related to science and medicine

PUBLICATIONS

1. Sharma P, Rao S, Krishna Kumar P, R Nair A, Agrawal D, Zadey S, Surendran G, George Joseph R, Dayma G, Rafeekh L, Saha S, Sharma S, Prakash SS, Sankarapandian V, John P, Patel V (2024). Barriers and facilitators for the use of telehealth by healthcare providers in India-A systematic review. PLOS Digit Health. 2024;3(12):e0000398.

2. Prakash SS (2024). Metabolic and immune systems are the primary tenets of biological life. Avicenna J Med Biochem. 2024;12(1):56-61.

3. Prakash SS, Muthuraman N (2024). Learning approaches, motivation, and specialty preference form a nexus: a cross-sectional study among preclinical medical students. Discov Educ. 2024;3(1):238.

4. Prakash SS(2024). Science and faith as applied to medicine: Adopting the middle path. J, Educ Health Promot J Educ Health Promot.2024 Jul 11:13:244. doi: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_340_24. eCollection 2024.

5. Nila S, Dutta E, PrakashSS, Korula S, Oommen AM (2024). Patient and caregiver perspectives of select noncommunicable diseases in India: A scoping review. PLoS One. 2024 Jan 5;19(1):e0296643. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296643.

6. Venkatesan P, Prakash SS, RamasamyJ (2023). Association of dietary patterns and health outcomes by spatial regression analysis of nationally representative survey data from India. Indian J Public Health. 2023 Jul-Sep;67(3):399-407. doi:10.4103/ijph.ijph_112_23.

7. Prakash SS (2023). High-fat-diet induced obesity and diabetes mellitus in Th1 and Th2 biased mice strains: A brief overview and hypothesis. Chronic Dis Transl Med. 2023 Feb 8;9(1):14-19. doi: 10.1002/cdt3.57. PMID: 36926255; PMCID: PMC10011668.

8. Prakash S.S(2023). Energy-balance and carbohydrate-insulin models of obesity are not competing propositions. Int J Obes (Lond). 2023 Feb;47(2):95-97. doi: 10.1038/s41366-022-01249-2. Epub 2022 Dec 19. PMID: 36536065.

9. Prakash S.S(2023). Hyperinsulinemia, obesity, and diabetes mellitus. Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries43, 289–290 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-022-01137-5

10. Prakash SS (2023). Theory, evidence, policy, and practice of medicine. Med J Armed Forces India. 2023 Sep-Oct;79(5):606-607. doi: 10.1016/j.mjafi.2021.06.015.

11. Prakash SS (2022). Statistical approaches to make sense of data in biology and medicine. Indian J Med Sci 2022;74:103-5. DOI: 10.25259/IJMS_197_2021

12. Prakash SS (2021). COVID19: Why the Dog did not bark? The Explanation can be unearthed by Immunoepidemiology. Medical Journal of Dr. D.Y. Patil Vidyapeeth 14(1):p 110-111, Jan–Feb 2021. | DOI: 10.4103/mjdrdypu.mjdrdypu_255_20

13. Anand R, Prakash SS (2019). Factors influencing the career preferences of medical students and interns: a cross-sectional, questionnaire-based survey from India. J Educ Eval Health Prof. 2019;16:12. doi: 10.3352/jeehp.2019.16.12. Epub 2019 May 15. PMID: 31117329; PMCID: PMC6609296.

14. Prakash SS (2019). Medical education in India: Looking beyond doctor: Population ratio. J Family Med Prim Care. 2019 Mar;8(3):1290-1291. doi: 10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_85_19. PMID: 31041296; PMCID: PMC6482808.

15. Narayanasamy M, Ruban A, Prakash SS (2019). Factors influencing to study medicine: a survey of first-year medical students from India. Korean J Med Educ. 2019 Mar;31(1):61-71. doi: 10.3946/kjme.2019.119. Epub 2019 Mar 1. PMID: 30852862; PMCID: PMC6589632.

16. Padmanaban V, Prakash SS (2018). Strain, Diet, and Gender Influence the Role of miR155 in Diabetes Mellitus. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Jul-Aug;22(4):570-572. doi: 10.4103/ijem.IJEM_125_18. PMID: 30148111; PMCID: PMC6085968.

17. Prakash SS (2018). Models that Explain the Cause of Obesity. Indian J Endocrinol Metab. 2018 Jul-Aug;22(4):569-570. doi: 10.4103/ijem.IJEM_67_18. PMID: 30148109; PMCID: PMC6085960.

18. Prakash SS (2018). Immune class regulation as an integrated response of factors related to host, stimulus and context. Scand J Immunol. 2018 Apr;87(4):e12656. doi: 10.1111/sji.12656. PMID: 29486051.

19. Ruban A, Prakash SS (2017). A proposal based on a review of reforms for improving medical education in India. Postgrad Med J. 2018 Mar;94(1109):187-188. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2017-135328. Epub 2017 Oct 24. PMID: 29066665.

20. Prakash SS, Muthuraman N, Anand R (2017). Short-duration podcasts as a supplementary learning tool: perceptions of medical students and impact on assessment performance. BMC Med Educ. 2017 Sep 18;17(1):167. doi: 10.1186/s12909-017-1001-5. PMID: 28923046; PMCID: PMC5604391.

21. Prakash SS, Soundrarajan J (2017). Advising residents on how to present an article in a journal club. Postgrad Med J. 2017 Jun;93(1100):364-365. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2016-134746. Epub 2017 Mar 7. PMID: 28270512.

22. Prakash SS (2016). What is the relevance of MBBS course in the era of specializations? International Journal of Scientific Research Vol. 5 Issue 8, Pg 543-44 August 2016.

23. Pananghat AN, Aggarwal H, Prakash SS, Makhdoomi MA, Singh R, Lodha R, Ali S, Srinivas M, Das BK, Pandey RM, Kabra SK, Luthra K (2016). IL-8 Alterations in HIV-1 Infected Children With Disease Progression. Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 May;95(21):e3734. doi: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003734. PMID: 27227934; PMCID: PMC4902358.

24. Prakash SS, Anand R (2015). Vitamin D – a nutrient that functions like a hormone. Current Medical Issues 2015;13(3):41-45.

25. Prakash SS (2015). Phage display technology for anti-venom production. Current Medical Issues. 2015;13(4):49-51.

26. Bure D, Makhdoomi MA, Lodha R, Prakash SS, Kumar R, Parray HA, Singh R, Kabra SK, Luthra K (2015). Mutations in the reverse transcriptase and protease genes of human immunodeficiency virus-1 from antiretroviral naïve and treated pediatric patients. Viruses. 2015 Feb 10;7(2):590-603. doi: 10.3390/v7020590. PMID: 25674767; PMCID: PMC4353905.

27. Anand R, Prakash SS, Veeramanikandan R, Kirubakaran R(2014). Association between apolipoprotein E genotype and cancer susceptibility: a meta-analysis. J Cancer Res Clin Oncol. 2014 Jul;140(7):1075-85. doi: 10.1007/s00432-014-1634-2. Epub 2014 Apr 5. PMID: 24706182.

28. Kumar R, Andrabi R, Tiwari A, Prakash SS, Wig N, Dutta D, Sankhyan A, Khan L, Sinha S, Luthra K (2012). A novel strategy for efficient production of anti-V3 human scFvs against HIV-1 clade C. BMC Biotechnol. 2012 Nov 15;12:87. doi: 10.1186/1472-6750-12-87. PMID: 23153214;15- PMCID: PMC3536577.

29. Andrabi R, Kumar R, Bala M, Nair A, Prakash SS, Kushwaha V, Luthra K (2012). Envelope diversity, characteristics of V3 region and predicted co-receptor usage of human immunodeficiency viruses infecting north Indians. J Microbiol. 2012 Oct;50(5):869-73. doi: 10.1007/s12275-012-2136-z. Epub 2012 Nov 4. PMID: 23124759.

30. Prakash SS, Andrabi R, Kumar R, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Vajpayee M, Luthra K (2012). Antibodies that cross-neutralize the tier-2 pseudoviruses are produced in antiretroviral-naïve HIV-1-infected children from northern India. Arch Virol. 2012 Sep;157(9):1797-801. doi: 10.1007/s00705-012-1357-0. Epub 2012 Jun 7. PMID: 22674340.

31. Prakash SS, Kalra R, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Luthra K (2012). Diversity of HIV type 1 envelope (V3-V5) sequence in HIV type 1-infected Indian children. AIDS Res Hum Retroviruses. 2012 May;28(5):505-9. doi: 10.1089/AID.2011.0206. Epub 2011 Sep 21. PMID: 21902590; PMCID: PMC3332366.

32. Choudhary AK, Andrabi R, Prakash SS, Kumar R, Choudhury SD, Wig N, Biswas A, Hazarika A, Luthra K (2012). Neutralization potential of the plasma of HIV-1 infected Indian patients in the context of anti-V3 antibody content and antiretroviral therapy. [corrected]. J Microbiol. 2012 Feb;50(1):149-54. doi: 10.1007/s12275-012-1246-y. Epub 2012 Feb 27. Erratum in: J Microbiol. 2012 Apr;50(2):363. PMID: 22367950.

33. Prakash SS, Andrabi R, Kumar R, Kabra SK, Lodha R, Vajpayee M, Luthra K (2011). Binding antibody responses to the immunogenic regions of viral envelope in HIV-1-infected Indian children. Viral Immunol. 2011 Dec;24(6):463-9. doi: 10.1089/vim.2011.0039. PMID: 22149971; PMCID: PMC3234704.

34. Prakash SS, Chaudhary AK, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Vajpayee M, Hazarika A, Bagga B, Luthra K(2011). Efficient neutralization of primary isolates by the plasma from HIV-1 infected Indian children. Viral Immunol. 2011 Oct;24(5):409-13. doi: 10.1089/vim.2011.0028. PMID: 22004138.

35. Andrabi R, Choudhary AK, Bala M, Kalra R, Prakash SS, Pandey RM, Luthra K(2011). Relative reactivity of HIV-1 polyclonal plasma antibodies directed to V3 and MPER regions suggests immunodominance of V3 over MPER and dependence of high anti-V3 antibody titers on virus persistence. Arch Virol. 2011 Oct;156(10):1787-94. doi: 10.1007/s00705-011-1053-5. Epub 2011 Jul 7. PMID: 21735212.

Text books

1. Prakash S. S., Kalpana Luthra. Humoral Immunity to HIV-1 in Children: Binding and Neutralizing Antibody Responses Against the Viral Envelope in HIV-1 Infected Children. Lambert Academic Publishing 2012

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

1. Life Member, Indian Immunology Society

AWARDS

1. Received first prize for poster presentation in the category of medical education at the Annual Research Day 2023 at CMC Vellore

2. Received second prize in poster presentation during the Workshop on Science and Faith (2019)

3. Received first prize in the 3-minute thesis (3-MT®) competition conducted by University of Queensland and Clinical Epidemiology Unit at Christian Medical College, Vellore (2014)

4. Global Health Travel Award to attend Keystone Symposia on “HIV Vaccines” in Colorado, USA in March 2012

5. Travel fellowship to attend the 37th Annual conference of Indian Immunology Society (Immunocon 2011) held in Jammu, India in February 2011

6. Travel grant to attend Translational Research in HIV/AIDS in India (TRAI) conference held in Goa, India in January 2011

7. MD Thesis grant from Indian Council of Medical Research (2010)