Dr. Prasad graduated from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 2000. He completed Internal Medicine and Cardiology training at the University of Texas, Southwestern at Dallas. Subsequently, he completed an Interventional Cardiology and an Endovascular Fellowship at the University of California, San Diego. He then joined the faculty at UC San Diego and after three years moved back to Texas to join the UT Health Science Center at San Antonio as an Assistant Clinical Professor. He is currently a Professor of Medicine and holds the Freeman Heart Association Endowment in Cardiovascular Disease. He also is the Director of the Advanced Diagnostic Center Catheterization Laboratories at University Health System. His clinical interests are centered on the endovascular treatment of peripheral arterial disease, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, percutaneous ventricular support devices, and high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions.

He has served as the Associate Program Director and Program Director for the Cardiovascular Diseases Fellowship Program at UT Health San Antonio. The is now the Director of the Interventional Cardiology Fellowship Program. In addition to an active role in Fellow training, Dr. Prasad is involved with clinical research. He is the primary investigator on both investigator-initiated and industry-sponsored clinical trials. His areas of current interest include novel approaches to therapy for limb salvage and acute kidney injury following endovascular interventions. He is also involved with efforts to understand vascular disease in minority populations. His research career has led to over 120 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He has served as an Associate Editor of Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, Associate PAD Section Editor for SCAI.org, on the ACC Interventional Section writing committee, ACC NCDR PVI Steering committee, XLPAD steering committee, and on the editorial boards for the Journal of Invasive Cardiology and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

The intersection of his research and clinical interests has led to the creation of the largest cardio renal symposium in the United States: Cardio Renal Connections. As cofounder of this meeting, Dr. Prasad has worked to bring together clinicians, nurses, researchers, and industry to address the challenges in the management of patients with concomitant heart and kidney disease. Cardiorenalconnections.org