An Oregon Health & Science University physician assistant faces two sex-abuse counts involving a 19-year-old patient, Beaverton police said Monday.
There likely are more victims, Beaverton police said.
Alvin Ashneel Prasad, 34, pleaded not guilty after a grand jury handed down an indictment last Friday on two charges, one a felony and the other a misdemeanor. He has been released conditionally from jail and is scheduled to be back in court August 28.
Prasad joined OHSU in April 2021 and worked at the university’s Immediate Care Clinics, an OHSU spokesperson said in a written statement.
“As soon as OHSU was made aware of the allegations, Mr. Prasad was immediately placed on leave,” the spokesperson said, directing further questions to the Beaverton police department. “His access to OHSU patient information and facilities has been terminated.”
Prasad’s staff webpage is no longer available, but an archive of the university’s website shows him employed as a physician assistant as recently as June, with 327 customer ratings and 141 reviews, the most recent — “He was very good” — submitted July 5.
He graduated from OHSU’s physician assistant program in 2020 and received his license several months later. The work locations listed on his license page are OHSU’s Beaverton and South Waterfront locations. One of the conditions of Prasad’s release is that he not work in the medical field.
The indictment’s felony charge – sexual abuse in the second degree – accuses Prasad of penetrating the patient’s vagina with an object. The misdemeanor charge accuses Prasad of touching a woman’s vagina without her consent on July 26.
According to Prasad’s staff profile on OHSU’s archived webpage, Prasad served in the U.S. Navy for six years, and he and his wife moved to Portland after the university accepted him to its physician assistant program.
The couple does not have any children, “unless you count 3 cats,” his wife, Amanpreet Kaur Prasad, wrote in an affidavit to the court.
