Amitabh Prakash completed his MBBS from the Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi and his MD (Pharmacology) from the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. He taught pharmacology to undergraduates (MBBS, BSc [Human Biology], BSc [Nursing]) and postgraduates (MD, MSc [Pharmacology]) for eight years, and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacology at AIIMS, before relocating to Auckland, New Zealand in 1997.
In Auckland, he started his career in medical publishing as a Medical Writer in the Scientific Writing Group at Adis International Ltd. (then a part of Wolters Kluwer Health). He was appointed the Editor-in-Chief of Drugs & Aging in September 1999. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Pharmacokinetics (since 2005; Impact Factor 4.680) and the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs (since 2001; Impact Factor 2.578). In addition to looking after the broader area of clinical pharmacokinetics, for the last 20 years Amitabh has been responsible for the cardiovascular content in five peer-reviewed, MEDLINE-indexed journals (e.g., Drugs, CNS Drugs, Pediatric Drugs, Drugs & Aging, and the American Journal of Cardiovascular Drugs).
Amitabh is an elected Fellow of the Indian Pharmacological Society (IPS) and the International Academy of Cardiovascular Sciences (IACS), and a member of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME), the Indian Association of Medical Journal Editors (IAMJE), and the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
In 2005 Amitabh received the Wolters Kluwer President’s Club Award for Editorial Excellence and in 2011 he received the Wolters Kluwer Global Editorial Award. He received the AIIMS Pharmacology Alumni Ambassador Award in 2007.
Dr. Prakash uses his 20 years’ experience in biomedical publishing to educate researchers on various aspects of scientific writing and publication. He has co-authored a book entitled ‘Biomedical Research: From Ideation to Publication’ (G. Jagadeesh, Sreekant Murthy, Y.K. Gupta, A. Prakash Eds; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2010).