Associate Dean – Clinical
Professor & Chairperson, Department of Physiotherapy
Master in Sports Physiotherapy
PhD (Sports Medicine & Physiotherapy) – Guru Nanak Dev University
Dr. Ramprasad Muthukrishnan
Prof. Ram Prasad was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of the highly competitive DST-CSI Cognitive Science program, where he focused on executive function and play in preschoolers. He received advanced training in translational neuroscience at Capital Medical University, Beijing. His doctoral research centered on EMG force-plate assisted reflex-specific perturbation training for back pain. Dr. Prasad’s research has garnered significant media attention, with coverage in The Times of India (TOI), DNA, and Hindustan Times (HP). He has held various professional roles, including Quality Head, Clinical Head, and member of committees such as Clinical Audit, Library, Media, Board of Studies, Academic Council, Research, and Assessment Committees. Additionally, he has served as the team physiotherapist for national and international tournaments.
In 2019, he was awarded the annual internal research grant of GMU for his work on myokines and was a final-round nominee for the Hamdan Research Awards in 2020 for his research on prediabetes and myokines. He is one of the principal investigators for the internal grant on AI validation on physiotherapy competencies for AY 2023-2024. Dr. Prasad also received the Excellent Scientific Paper Award in 2019 from the Society of Physical Therapy Science, Japan. Prof. Prasad currently works in the areas of healthy aging and myokines, executive function and play, transformative education, exoskeletons, AI, postural control and exercises of Musculoskeletal disorders.