Seetharam Chittiprol, PhD, DABCC, NRCC, is a board-certified clinical chemist. He earned his doctoral degree from the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuorsciences in Bengaluru, India, and received his training in clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine at the University of Washington Medical Center and Seattle Children’s Hospital. Before joining Memorial Healthcare System, Dr. Chittiprol served as technical director of core laboratories at Sparrow Health System, Lansing, Michigan, and held a joint faculty appointment as clinical assistant professor at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine.

Hospital Affiliations

• Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
• Memorial Hospital Miramar
• Memorial Hospital Pembroke
• Memorial Hospital West
• Memorial Regional Hospital

Gender

• Male

Languages

• English
• Kannada

Education

National Institute of Mental Healthand Neurosicences, 2007

Certifications

Awards

Awards and honors

• Health Sciences Academic Senate Research Award, University of California San Diego, 2008
• Young Scientist Travel Award, World Federation of Biological Psychiatry, Santiago, Chile, 2007
• Young Investigator Award, International Brain Research Organization, Hong Kong, 2006
• Young Investigator Award, International Society for Neurochemistry, Innsbruck, Austria, 2005
• International Brain Research Organization Fellowship, Chongqing, China, 2004

Professional organizations

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry
• American Society for Clinical Pathology
• Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists

Recent publications

• “CXCL10 Induces the Recruitment of Monocyte-Deprived Macrophages into Kidney, Which Aggravate Puromycin Aminonucleoside Nephrosis,” Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 2015
• “Marker Expression, Behaviors and Responses Vary in Different Lines of Conditionally Immortalized Cultured Podocytes,” American Journal of Physiology, Renal Physiology, 2011