Carlos E. Prada, MD

About Me

Biography

Carlos E. Prada, MD, is an assistant professor of clinical genetics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center within the UC Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Prada is also the clinical director for the RASopathies program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Dr. Prada graduated from the Universidad Industrial de Santander in Bucaramanga, Colombia. He completed a combined pediatrics and human genetics residency at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, then completed a fellowship in clinical biochemical genetics there as well.

Dr. Prada divides his time between Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and Fundación Cardiovascular in Bucaramanga, Colombia in South America. As an assistant professor of human genetics at Cincinnati Children's within the UC Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Prada spends the majority of his time caring for patients with RASopathies, lysosomal storage diseases, and metabolic disorders. He participates in natural history studies of genetic diseases, biomarker discovery, and clinical trials for novel therapies including gene therapy. He is also actively involved in the education of health care providers regarding the application of genetics for patient care, including newborn screening, and gene therapy.

Dr. Prada has expertise in telehealth and he is the director for a Telegenetics program in the Caribbean. He has developed a partnership with the Centro de Ginecologia y Obstetricia to follow children with complex rare diseases in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In the Fundación Cardiovascular de Colombia, Dr. Prada is the director of the Center for Genomics and Metabolism.

Additional Languages

Spanish

Clinical Interests

Lysosomal storage diseases; metabolic diseases; neurofibromatosis

Research Interests

Metabolomics; newborn screening; neurofibromatosis; lysosomal storage diseases; RASopathies

Academic Affiliation

Assistant Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Departments

Genetics, Rasopathy, Neurofibromatosis

My Locations

Burnet Campus

Burnet Campus

3333 Burnet Ave.

Cincinnati, Ohio 45229-3039

513-636-4200

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Liberty Campus

Liberty Campus

7777 Yankee Road

Liberty Township, Ohio 45044

1-513-803-9600

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My Education

MD: Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Residency: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Pediatrics/Human Genetics, Cincinnati, OH, 2006-2011.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Clinical Biochemical Genetics, Cincinnati, OH, 2011-2013.

Certification: Clinical Genetics, 2013; Clinical Biochemical Genetics, 2013.

My Publications

Expanding and Underscoring the Hepato-Encephalopathic Phenotype of QIL1/MIC13. Russell, BE; Whaley, KG; Bove, KE; Labilloy, A; Lombardo, RC; Hopkin, RJ; Leslie, ND; Prada, C; Assouline, Z; Barcia, G; et al. Hepatology. 2019; 70:1066-1070.

Phenotypic and biochemical analysis of an international cohort of individuals with variants in NAA10 and NAA15. Cheng, H; Gottlieb, L; Marchi, E; Kleyner, R; Bhardwaj, P; Rope, AF; Rosenheck, S; Moutton, S; Philippe, C; Eyaid, W; et al. Human Molecular Genetics. 2019; 28:2900-2919.

Mutations in the Neuronal Vesicular SNARE VAMP2 Affect Synaptic Membrane Fusion and Impair Human Neurodevelopment. Salpietro, V; Malintan, NT; Llano-Rivas, I; Spaeth, CG; Efthymiou, S; Striano, P; Vandrovcova, J; Cutrupi, MC; Chimenz, R; David, E; et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2019; 104:721-730.

Substantial pain burden in frequency, intensity, interference and chronicity among children and adults with neurofibromatosis Type 1. Kongkriangkai, AM; King, C; Martin, LJ; Wakefield, E; Prada, CE; Kelly-Mancuso, G; Schorry, EK. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A. 2019; 179:602-607.

Prevalence of pathogenic and likely pathogenic variants in the RASopathy genes in patients who have had panel testing for cardiomyopathy. Aljeaid, D; Isabel Sanchez, A; Wakefield, E; Chadwell, SE; Moore, N; Prada, CE; Zhang, W. American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A. 2019; 179:608-614.

Vitamin D deficiency and pre-eclampsia in Colombia: PREVitD study. Serrano, NC; Guio, E; Quintero-Lesmes, DC; Becerra-Bayona, S; Luna-Gonzalez, ML; Herrera, VM; Prada, CE. Pregnancy Hypertension. 2018; 14:240-244.

Lysosomal Acid Lipase Deficiencies: Wolman Disease/ Cholesteryl Ester Storage Disease. Prada, CE; Grabowski, GA. In: KLEINMAN RE, Ed. Walker´s Pediatric Gastroenterology Diseases: Physiology, Diagnosis, and Management.. Raleigh, North Carolina: PMPH; 2018.

Correlating liver stiffness with disease severity scoring system (DS3) values in Gaucher disease type 1 (GD1) patients. Serai, SD; Naidu, AP; Burrow, TA; Prada, CE; Xanthakos, S; Towbin, AJ. Molecular Genetics and Metabolism. 2018; 123:357-363.

Cardiac Rhabdomyomas in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex. Castro-Monsalve, J; Alvarado-Socarras, JL; Mantilla, KA; Forero, L; Moreno, A; Prada, CE. The Journal of Pediatrics. 2018; 192:264-264.e1.

The Tatton-Brown-Rahman Syndrome: A clinical study of 55 individuals with de novo constitutive DNMT3A variants. Tatton-Brown, K; Zachariou, A; Loveday, C; Renwick, A; Mahamdallie, S; Aksglaede, L; Baralle, D; Barge-Schaapveld, D; Blyth, M; Bouma, M; et al. Wellcome Open Research. 2018; 3:46-46.