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Prasanthi Govindarajan, M.D.

Emergency medicine specialist

Dr. Prasanthi Govindarajan is an emergency medicine doctor at UCSF Medical Center. She specializes in caring for patients with neurological emergencies and in pre-hospital care of stroke patients. Her research in this area has been widely published in peer-reviewed medical journals.

Govindarajan earned her medical degree from Madras Medical College in Chennai, India. Subsequently, she completed a residency in emergency medicine at Boston Medical Center, and a fellowship in emergency medical services and a master's degree in clinical research at the University of San Diego. Govindarajan is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and grants, including the David Frommer Award during her residency, UCSF Hellman Award and the University of California, San Diego Stroke Grant. She serves as the vice chair for the National Academy of EMS Physicians Research Committee and is a member of the American Heart Association's stroke council and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. Govindarajan is an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Medicine.

Clinics

Emergency Department
505 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone: (415) 353-1037
Physician Referrals: (415) 353-1238

More about Prasanthi Govindarajan

Additional Languages

Tamil

Education

Madras College of Medicine 1997

Residencies

Boston University Medical Center 2005

Selected Research and Publications

  1. Govindarajan P, Dickert NW, Meeker M, De Souza N, Harney D, Hemphill CJ, Pentz R. Emergency research: using exception from informed consent, evaluation of community consultations. Acad Emerg Med. 2013 Jan; 20(1):98-103.
  2. Kamel H, Fahimi J, Govindarajan P, Navi BB. Nationwide Patterns of Hospitalization after Transient Ischemic Attack. J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2012 Nov 10.
  3. Wilson MP, Vilke GM, Govindarajan P, Itagaki MW. Emergency Physicians Research Common Problems in Proportion to their Frequency. West J Emerg Med. 2012 Sep; 13(4):344-50.
  4. Govindarajan P, Gonzales R, Maselli JH, Claiborne Johnston S, Fahimi J, Poisson S, Stein JC. Regional Differences in Emergency Medical Services Use for Patients with Acute Stroke (Findings from the National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey Emergency Department Data File). J Stroke Cerebrovasc Dis. 2012 Mar 30.
  5. Freeman JD, Govindarajan P. Paediatric back pain and a limp. Emerg Med J. 2012 Jun; 29(6):523.
  6. Desouza NT, Govindarajan P. Radiographic evidence of osteomyelitis. West J Emerg Med. 2011 Nov; 12(4):528-9.
  7. Govindarajan P, Desouza NT, Pierog J, Ghilarducci D, Johnston SC. Feasibility study to assess the use of the Cincinnati stroke scale by emergency medical dispatchers: a pilot study. Emerg Med J. 2012 Oct; 29(10):848-50.
  8. Govindarajan P, Lin L, Landman A, McMullan JT, McNally BF, Crouch AJ, Sasson C. Practice variability among the EMS systems participating in Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES). Resuscitation. 2012 Jan; 83(1):76-80.
  9. Govindarajan P, Ghilarducci D, McCulloch C, Pierog J, Bloom E, Johnston C. Comparative evaluation of stroke triage algorithms for emergency medical dispatchers (MeDS): prospective cohort study protocol. BMC Neurol. 2011; 11:14.
  10. Govindarajan P, Larkin GL, Rhodes KV, Piazza G, Byczkowski TL, Edwards M, Baren JM. Patient-centered integrated networks of emergency care: consensus-based recommendations and future research priorities. Acad Emerg Med. 2010 Dec; 17(12):1322-9.
  11. Ramanujam P, Castillo E, Patel E, Vilke G, Wilson MP, Dunford JV. Prehospital transport time intervals for acute stroke patients. J Emerg Med. 2009 Jul; 37(1):40-5.
  12. Ramanujam P, Guluma KZ, Castillo EM, Chacon M, Jensen MB, Patel E, Linnick W, Dunford JV. Accuracy of stroke recognition by emergency medical dispatchers and paramedics--San Diego experience. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2008 Jul-Sep; 12(3):307-13.
  13. Ramanujam P, Lowenstein R. Hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign. J Emerg Med. 2007 Nov; 33(4):417-8.
  14. Ramanujam P, Aschkenasy M. Identifying the need for pre-hospital and emergency care in the developing world: a case study in Chennai, India. J Assoc Physicians India. 2007 Jul; 55:491-5.
  15. Davis DP, Ramanujam P. Central venous access by air medical personnel. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2007 Apr-Jun; 11(2):204-6.
  16. Davis DP, Fisher R, Aguilar S, Metz M, Ochs G, McCallum-Brown L, Ramanujam P, Buono C, Vilke GM, Chan TC, Dunford JV. The feasibility of a regional cardiac arrest receiving system. Resuscitation. 2007 Jul; 74(1):44-51.
  17. Ramanujam P, Rathlev NK. Blood cultures do not change management in hospitalized patients with community-acquired pneumonia. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Jul; 13(7):740-5.
  18. McCausland JB, Linden JA, Degutis LC, Ramanujam P, Sullivan LM, D'onofrio G. Nonoccupational postexposure HIV prevention: emergency physicians' current practices, attitudes, and beliefs. Ann Emerg Med. 2003 Nov; 42(5):651-6.
  19. Dart R, Ramanujam P, Dart L. Progesterone as a predictor of ectopic pregnancy when the ultrasound is indeterminate. Am J Emerg Med. 2002 Nov; 20(7):575-9.

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