Prof. Prakash Boominathan is currently the Principal of Sri Ramachandra Faculty of Audiology & Speech Language Pathology, SRIHER (Deemed University), Chennai, India. He also serves as a Senior Consultant Speech Language Pathologist at Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre. He is a qualified clinical educator and adjunct faculty at Dept. of CSD at University of Toronto. He was the first rank-holder during his under-graduation, and a double gold medallist during post-graduation that he completed from the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), University of Mysore. He received his Ph.D. in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences (Specialty area: Vocal dynamics of the singing voice) from Sri Ramachandra University. 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 centres in USA. He has been at Sri Ramachandra University over the last two and half decades. His area of clinical focus and research are fluency and voice with emphasis on professional voice care. Prakash Boominathan has been closely involved in the establishment of voice and swallowing clinic as a special clinic in Sri Ramachandra Medical Centre and University Hospital. This included sensitizing, developing and supporting interdisciplinary teamwork with ENT Surgeons, SLPs & musicians. He has conducted several workshops on voice care, assessment & management. He has over 75 publications of which nearly 55 are in Scopus and Web of Science Indexed, a few book chapters and two instructional DVDs on voice therapy to his credit. He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals such as Journal of Voice, JAIISH, JISHA, journal of Laryngology & Voice etc. He has to date successfully guided five PhD candidates and is currently guiding three PhD students and serves on seven doctoral committees. Prof. Prakash has 25 years experience in the field, and he is a Member of Academic Council,Chairman / member of BoS at several universities, RCI subject expert in syllabus revision core committees and NEP 2020, NAAC assessor, RCI Expert Committee, amonst several other additional acadimic and professional responsibilities. He is currently the President (2024) of the Indian Speech – Language and Hearing Association and an Expert member (2022-25) of Speech and Hearing Committee of the Rehabilitation Council of India. Prakash serves on several academic and research committees including the Academic Council of The Tamil Nadu Dr. J. Jayalalithaa Music and Fine Arts University (2023-26), and SRIHER (DU). Prof. Prakash was recognized with “Teaching Excellence Award” in 2019 by SRIHER (DU). The Indian Speech- Language & Hearing Association in 2023 bestowed on him the prestigious Dr. N Rathna Oration award for his exemplary services and research contributions in the field of Speech Language Pathology.
Professor Boominathan is an alumnus of the All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH), University of Mysore. He earned his Ph.D. in Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, specializing in the vocal dynamics of the singing voice, from Sri Ramachandra University. His commitment to advancing his knowledge led him to receive the prestigious Fulbright Research Fellowship in 2005-06. As a Fulbright scholar, he undertook research at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, and various other voice centers across the USA. He also trained in advanced voice diagnostics at the Institute of Musicians Medicine, Frieburg, Germany.
Voice Sciences, Voice Disorders, Professional Voice, Singing and teaching voice, Speech Sciences, Fluency and its disorders
Research Guidance:
PhD Thesis completed (as on 1st Oct 2024): 05
PhD Thesis ongoing (as on 1st Oct 2024): 03
Member Research Advisory/Doctoral Committee: Completed 05; Ongoing 07 (as on 1st Oct 2024)
Master’s Dissertation: Completed: 32; Ongoing: 03 (as on 1st Oct 2024)
Research Profile:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6994-1584
Web of Science Researcher ID: T-9615-2017
Scopus ID: 55933556800
Vidwan ID: https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/167670
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=XH-H2NIAAAAJ&hl=en
Research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Prakash-Boominathan
AD Scientific Index ID: 2004051
Co-investigator in “Development of speech-language and neurodevelopmental skills among preterm children: A prospective longitudinal study”, Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, 2016-2019. (Principal investigator: Dr. Lakshmi Venkatesh, Co investigators: Roopa Nagarajan, Binu Ninan)
Project amount: Rs. 32,21,702
Principal investigator in “Ornaments in Carnatic singing”. Project during the Fulbright Research Fellowship at the Voice Performance Laboratory, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA – with Ronald C Scherer, Research Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, USA), 2005-2006.
Project amount: 12000USD
Co-investigator in “Quantification of perceived nasality using Nasalence score in Tamil speaking population”. Smile Train Kay Grant – awarded by Kay Elemetrics, 2003- 2006. (Principal investigator: Sunitha V Raman, Co-investigators: Roopa Nagarajan)
Project amount: 10,000USD
Principal investigator in “Clinical validation of a multi parametric approach to assessment of voice”, SRU- Gate project, 2009-2010. (Co-investigators: John Samuel, A. Ravikumar & Roopa Nagarajan)
Project amount: Rs. 1,00,000
RCI CRR No: A05346