Zohra Prasla, M.D. Titles and Appointments Director, Pulmonary Ambulatory Care Assistant Professor Schools Medical School Departments Internal Medicine You have reached the Academic Profile. For more information on the doctor and patient care, please visit the clinical profile. Biography Zohra Prasla, M.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern and a member of its Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. She serves as Director of Pulmonary Ambulatory Care. Dr. Prasla holds a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin. She received her medical degree from UT Southwestern, where she also completed internal medicine residency training. She then obtained advanced training through a fellowship in pulmonay and critical care at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to joining the UT Southwestern faculty in 2024, Dr. Prasla was an attending physician at UCLA Health and a clinical instructor at David Geffen School of Medicine. Dr. Prasla is an active member of the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society. Education Medical School UT Southwestern Medical School (2012) Residency UT Southwestern Medical Center (2015), Internal Medicine Fellowship Emory University School of Medicine (2019), Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Publications Featured Publications Updates in the Etiology and Management of Organizing Pneumonia. Prasla Z, Balasubramanian S, Nadeem U. Curr Pulmonol Rep 2025 14 14 Macrophage Signaling Pathways in Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections. Prasla Z, Sutliff RL, Sadikot RT, Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2020 Aug 63 2 144-151 Recent Advances in Lung Immunobiology. Ramonell RP, Prasla Z, Terry CR, Schulman DA, Lee FE, Am J Respir Cell Mol Biol 2019 Dec 61 6 786-788 PGC-1α activation to enhance macrophage immune function in mycobacterial infections. Frandsen JR, Yuan Z, Bedi B, Prasla Z, Choi SR, Narayanasamy P, Sadikot RT, PLoS One 2025 20 2 e0310908 MicroRNA-155 Modulates Macrophages' Response to Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria through COX-2/PGE2 Signaling. Yuan Z, Prasla Z, Lee FE, Bedi B, Sutliff RL, Sadikot RT, Pathogens 2021 Jul 10 8 Pediatric glaucoma suspects. Kooner K, Harrison M, Prasla Z, Albdour M, Adams-Huet B Clin Ophthalmol 2014 8 1139-45 Results 1-6 of 6 1 Honors & Awards First Place, Poster CompetitionAmerican Federation of Medical Research, Southern Region (2019)
