Dr. Chitra Prasad is a specialist in metabolic and genetic disorders and has recently moved from the Children's Hospital of Winnipeg to the Chirldren's Hospital of Western Ontario, the result of a major recruiting drive by the hospital in 2003. Her husband, Dr. Narayan Prasad, was also recruited to London. He is a neurologist specializing in children with epilepsy. Both have been trained and certified in Canada and the United states, and they continue to collaborate on many research projects together in the area of genetic neurological disorders. They have two children aged 10 and 15.
Dr. Chitra Prasad is builidng on the current metabolic program at the Children's Hospial of Western Ontario. She has been a collaborator on the Canadian Pediaric Surveillance Program (CPSP) study on hte Incidence and Prevalence of CHARGE syndrome in Canada. She also has an interest in PKU, or Phenylketonuria, which is another rare metabolic disorder that affects approximately 1 in 15, 000 newborns.
Dr. Prasad experienced networking with teachers, students and the public while working n the mentorship program for the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the American Society of Human Genetics in order to help increase the understanding of the Human Genome Project and genetics. The Human Genome Project (HPG) began in 1990 as an effort by researchers from around the world to map and sequence the human genome -- the totality of human DNA.