Arti Prasad
“I am thrilled to be part of FORESIGHT’s National Advisory Committee. I consider it an honor and a privilege to work with a broad group of forward-thinking leaders around the country. I am eager to learn about their views regarding the current state of our national health care and the need for shifting foci. I look forward to collaborating with others to create and influence a culture of health and well-being.”
Dr. Arti Prasad is chief of medicine at Hennepin HealthCare (formerly HCMC) and holds the Scott F. Davies Endowed Chair of Medicine position there. The Medicine Department at HHC provides outstanding clinical care in 16 specialties, recognized teaching programs, and a broad research portfolio through the MMRF. She is also a professor and vice chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Minnesota, as well as holding a teaching faculty appointment at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona.
Arti was a professor of internal medicine and the chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Integrative Medicine at the University of New Mexico. There, her interest in integrative and inter-cultural health, inter-professional education, community engagement, and physician well-being led her to develop the Center for Life, a center for patient care, learning, and community education. Starting with only a $5,000 budget, she developed a center that today receives broad financial support from UNM, the state legislature, and private donors. Center for Life has received national recognition for its patient-centered clinical care and outcomes, innovative teaching programs, and wellness initiatives throughout New Mexico.
Arti studied medicine at the Gandhi Medical College in Bhopal, India where she also completed her internship in Internal Medicine. Her career path was influenced by the world’s worst industrial disaster at the time involving Union Carbide in Bhopal in 1984 during her final year of medical school. She moved to the United States in 1988 and began her US-based residency training in Internal Medicine at SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, before moving to the University of New Mexico to complete her training. Arti additionally completed a fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Medical Center and a leadership training, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM), at Drexel University.
Arti is board certified both in Internal Medicine and Integrative Medicine. At the national level, she is the UNM delegate of United States Pharmacopeia (USP), a Fellow of the American College of Physicians (ACP), a steering committee member of the Consortium of Academic Health Centers of Integrative Medicine, and a founding board member of the American Board of Integrative Medicine (ABOIM).
As chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, Geriatrics and Integrative Medicine, the second largest division of the department, Arti oversaw patient services and medical education that were delivered at ten different clinical sites and three hospitals, including the major safety net hospital in New Mexico and the Center for Life.