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

2. Venkatesan P, Prakash SS, Ramasamy J. 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.

3. Prakash SS. 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.

4. Somi Sankaran P. 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.

5. Prakash SS. 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.

6. Prakash SS. Hyperinsulinemia, obesity, and diabetes mellitus. Int J Diabetes Dev Ctries 43, 289–290 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13410-022-01137-5

7. Prakash SS. 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

8. Prakash SS. 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

9. Anand R, Sankaran PS. 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.

10. Prakash SS. 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.

11. Narayanasamy M, Ruban A, Sankaran PS. 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.

12. Padmanaban V, Prakash SS. 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.

13. Prakash SS. 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.

14. Prakash SS. 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.

15. Ruban A, Somi Sankaran P. 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.

16. Prakash SS*, Muthuraman N*, Anand R. 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. *Contributed equally

17. Prakash SS, Soundrarajan J. 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.

18. Prakash SS. What is the relevance of MBBS course in the era of specializations? International Journal of Scientific Research 2016 Aug;5(8):543-544.

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

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

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

22. Bure D, Makhdoomi MA, Lodha R, Prakash SS, Kumar R, Parray HA, Singh R, Kabra SK, Luthra K. 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.

23. Anand R, Prakash SS, Veeramanikandan R, Kirubakaran R. 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.

24. Kumar R, Andrabi R, Tiwari A, Prakash SS, Wig N, Dutta D, Sankhyan A, Khan L, Sinha S, Luthra K. 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.

25. Andrabi R, Kumar R, Bala M, Nair A, Ss P, Kushwaha V, Luthra K. 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.

26. Prakash SS, Andrabi R, Kumar R, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Vajpayee M, Luthra K. 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.

27. Prakash SS, Kalra R, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Luthra K. 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.

28. Choudhary AK*, Andrabi R*, Prakash SS*, Kumar R, Choudhury SD, Wig N, Biswas A, Hazarika A, Luthra K. 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. *These authors contributed equally to this work.

29. Prakash SS, Andrabi R, Kumar R, Kabra SK, Lodha R, Vajpayee M, Luthra K. 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.

30. Prakash SS, Chaudhary AK, Lodha R, Kabra SK, Vajpayee M, Hazarika A, Bagga B, Luthra K. 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.

31. Andrabi R, Choudhary AK, Bala M, Kalra R, Prakash SS, Pandey RM, Luthra K. 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.

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)