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Manju Prasad, MD, MBBS

Professor of Pathology
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Additional Titles

Director, Endocrine, Head & Neck Pathology Fellowship Program, Pathology

Director, Endocrine, Head and Neck Pathology, Pathology

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Professor of Pathology

Director, Endocrine, Head & Neck Pathology Fellowship Program, Pathology; Director, Endocrine, Head and Neck Pathology, Pathology

Biography

I am an Oncologic Surgical Pathologist by training with a life-long interest in cancers of the head and neck including salivary glands, thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal glands. Pathology is the study of the underlying mechanism of diseases which helps guide treatment individualized to each patient. I am deeply committed to teaching and extending my expertise to patients and physicians. I started the Endocrine, Head & Neck subspecialty pathology program in 2009, a program dedicated to the detection of cancer, prediction of their behavior and response to therapy, often harmful to the patients and sometimes, to their families. The program now has a complement of five surgical pathologists and an ACGME-accredited fellowship program and works in closely with molecular and cytopathology. My research includes head and neck melanomas arising in UV-light protected sites, e.g. oral and nasal mucosa, HPV-associated cancers of the head & neck, and the molecular mechanism of thyroid, parathyroid and adrenal tumors. I am also interested in public education.


Appointments

Education & Training

Fellow
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2000)
Fellow`
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (1999)
Resident
New York Presbyterian Hospital (1998)
MD
Institute of Medical Sciences Varanasi (1984)
MBBS
Institute of Medical Sciences Varanasi (1981)

Research

Overview

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Endocrine System Diseases; Pathologic Processes; Pathology Department, Hospital; Pathology, Surgical

Research at a Glance

Yale Co-Authors

Frequent collaborators of Manju Prasad's published research.

Publications

2024

2023

2021

2020

2018

Clinical Care

Overview

Manju Prasad, MD, MBBS, (a medical degree awarded in several countries outside of the U.S.),a pathologist who specializes in head and neck cancer, learned about this disease when several family members developed this kind of cancer. “My original ideas for joining medicine were very idealistic, and I realized that by studying pathology, I could directly help patients by giving them correct diagnoses and guide their treatment by talking to their surgeons, medical oncologists and internists,” Dr. Prasad says.

“Every day, I look at cancer cells under a microscope in an attempt to provide oncologists with details like whether the cancer is slow- or fast-growing, or what stage has the cancer reached,” Dr. Prasad says. She also regularly assists in cancer-related surgeries by providing rapid intraoperative diagnoses. This type of diagnosis occurs when the surgeon removes a piece of tissue around a patient’s tumor and sends it to the pathologist. The pathologist then examines the sample microscopically using the frozen section diagnostic technique to determine if the cancer has been entirely removed or if the surgeon needs to do more.

At Yale School of Medicine, Dr. Prasad is professor of pathology and director of endocrine, head and neck pathology. She researches specific proteins, or molecules, found in thyroid, salivary and head and neck cancers in order to determine possible new drug therapy targets.

Clinical Specialties

Pathology; Head, Neck & Endocrine Pathology; Endocrine Surgery; Head & Neck Surgical Oncology

Board Certifications

  • Anatomic & Clinical Pathology

    Certification Organization
    AB of Pathology
    Original Certification Date
    1998

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Contacts

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Locations

  • Department of Pathology

    Academic Office

    Brady Memorial Laboratory

    310 Cedar Street, Wing Lauder Hall, Fl 2nd, Ste LH-222

    New Haven, CT 06510

    Clinical Inquiry

    203.785.2788
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