Prakash Boominathan BSc, MSc, PhD

Dr. Prakash Boominathan is currently a Professor and Head, Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute (Deemed University), Chennai, India. He also serves as a Senior Consultant Speech Language Pathologist and Audiologist at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre University Hospital, Porur; Sundaram Medical Foundations Hospital, Anna Nagar; Chennai ENT Research Centre, Anna Nagar; and Swapna Therapy Centre, Adayar.

He completed his under-graduation in 1998 and post-graduation in 2000 in Speech Pathology and Audiology from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing, University of Mysore, India. He received his Ph.D. in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences (Specialty area: Vocal dynamics of the singing voice) from Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai in 2008. In the year 2005-06, he had received the prestigious Fulbright Research Fellowship. As part of the fellowship, he visited University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and other voice centers in USA.

He started his career as a tutor in Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai. Since then he has been a consultant in various other speech and hearing centers in Tamil Nadu. He has been instrumental in establishment and development of voice related clinical, academic and research activities at the Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai. He is a qualified clinical educator at University of Toronto.