Vinay Prasad

Vinayak K. Prasad (born 1982–83) is an American hematologist-oncologist and health researcher. He is an associate professor at the University of California San Francisco[1] who, together with Adam Cifu, coined the term "medical reversal". He is the author of two books, over 250 academic articles, and a podcaster.[2]

Vinay Prasad
Born
Vinayak K. Prasad
Alma materMichigan State University (BA)
University of Chicago (MD)
Johns Hopkins University (MPH)
Scientific career
FieldsHematology, oncology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, San Francisco
Websitevinayakkprasad.com

Early life and education

Prasad was raised in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio before moving outside of Chicago in northern Indiana. His parents immigrated from India.[3]

Prasad was 2001 valedictorian of LaPorte High School.[4] He attended Michigan State University, where he took courses in health care ethics and physiology. In 2005, Prasad graduated summa cum laude from MSU with a double major in Philosophy and Physiology.[3] He gave the commencement speech to the College of Arts and Letters on behalf of the Philosophy Department.[5] He completed his medical degree at University of Chicago in 2009 and completed a residency in internal medicine at Northwestern University in 2012. Prasad was certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 2012 and earned a Master's of Public Health from Johns Hopkins University in 2014. In 2015, Prasad completed a fellowship in oncology at the National Cancer Institute and hematology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

From 2015 to 2020, Prasad was assistant and then associate Professor at the Oregon Health & Science University.[6] He is the author of over 250 academic articles.[7] He currently works at San Francisco General Hospital. Prasad's work has been cited over 6000 times.[8]

Career

Prasad is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco.[6] He is a cancer drug and health policy researcher. He also studies the financial conflicts in drug approvals.[9]

Prasad hosts the podcast "Plenary Session"[10][11][12] and blogs at MedPage Today.[13] Prasad has won several teaching awards, including the 2017 Craig Okada Award for best teacher in the Hematology Oncology Fellowship program, the 2018 faculty mentorship award from the internal medicine residency, the 2019 J David Bristow award from the graduating medical students, and the 2020 excellence in research and scholarship mentoring as awarded by the internal medicine residents.[7]

Selected works

Articles
  • Prasad, Vinay; Cifu, Adam; Ioannidis, John P. A. (January 4, 2012). "Reversals of Established Medical Practices". JAMA. 307 (1): 37–8. doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1960. PMID 22215160.
  • Prasad, Vinay; Vandross, Andrae; Toomey, Caitlin; Cheung, Michael; Rho, Jason; Quinn, Steven; Chacko, Satish Jacob; Borkar, Durga; Gall, Victor (2013). "A Decade of Reversal: An Analysis of 146 Contradicted Medical Practices". Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 88 (8): 790–798. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2013.05.012. PMID 23871230.
  • Prasad, Vinay (2016). "Perspective: The precision-oncology illusion". Nature. 537 (7619): S63. doi:10.1038/537S63a. PMID 27602743.
  • Chokshi, Dave A. (2016). "A course in reversal". The Lancet. 387 (10025): 1266. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(16)30025-3. ISSN 0140-6736.

Books
  • Prasad, Vinayak K. (2020). Malignant: How Bad Policy and Bad Evidence Harm People with Cancer. John Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421437637.
  • Prasad, Vinayak K.; Cifu, Adam S. (2015). Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Outcomes, Saving Lives. John Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9781421417721.

References
  1. "Vinayak Prasad, MD, MPH". University of California San Francisco. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  2. Zuger, Abigail (October 30, 2015). "Book Review: 'Ending Medical Reversal' Laments Flip-Flopping". NYT. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  3. Terry, Lynne (September 7, 2017). "Dr. Vinay Prasad, OHSU's iconoclastic oncologist, calls out shoddy medicine". Oregon Live. The Oregonian. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  4. "Once a Slicer, Always a Slicer: Vinay Prasad Class of 2001". Slicer Newsroom. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  5. "Commencement" (PDF). MSU. Spring 2005. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  6. "Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH | OHSU People". Oregon Health & Science University. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  7. Prasad, Vinay. "Vinay Prasad". Vinay Prasad. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  8. "Vinay Prasad, MD MPH". Google scholar. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  9. Piller, Charles (July 6, 2018). "Hidden conflicts?". Science. 361 (6397): 16–20. doi:10.1126/science.361.6397.16. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 29976808.
  10. "Plenary Session". SoundCloud. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
  11. Harris, Richard (June 24, 2018). "Tweeting Oncologist Draws Ire And Admiration For Calling Out Hype". NPR. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  12. Hayes, Elizabeth (April 5, 2017). "OHSU's Vinay Prasad on being the medical field's willing provocateur". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  13. "Articles You Will Definitely Read". Medpage Today. Retrieved January 17, 2021.
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