Manju Prasad, MBBS, MD

Dr. Manju Prasad, Professor of Pathology at Yale School of Medicine, is an oncologic surgical pathologist with a lifelong interest in cancers of the head and neck, and endocrine organs including thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. After obtaining MBBS and MD in Pathology from the Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, she became a Senior Demonstrator in the department of pathology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, and later Assistant Professor at the Lady Harding Medical College in New Delhi, India. Dr. Prasad came to the USA in 1994 and underwent further training at the New York-Presbyterian Hospital of Cornell University and at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Prasad’s research includes head and neck melanomas arising in UV-light-protected sites, e.g., oral and nasal mucosa, HPV-associated cancers of the head and neck, and genotype-phenotype correlation in thyroid, parathyroid, and adrenal tumors. She serves on the editorial board of leading pathology journals, and since 2005 has contributed several chapters to the third, fourth and fifth editions of the World Health Organization’s Blue Book series on Classification of Tumors. Dr. Prasad served as treasurer, secretary, vice-president and President of the North American Society of Head and Neck Pathologists and continues to be a member of the executive board of the society. She is a member of the European Society of Pathology and its working group on Head and Neck Pathology. She has been an invited speaker, moderator and chair of scientific sessions and a judge of presentations in her field of expertise at many national and international meetings. Dr. Prasad is deeply committed to patient care through teaching young physicians-in-training and extending her expertise to oncologists to help with treatment plans individualized to each patient. She was recruited to Yale to start a new Endocrine, Head & Neck subspecialty pathology program and a fellowship. Dr. Prasad has received multiple awards throughout her career including Best Teacher award, Hubert Wolfe award for most outstanding paper in endocrine pathology by her trainee, and the Yale Cancer Center award for Clinical Excellence.