Prakash Narain Selected as Mayor Pro Tem of Cypress

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 29 December 2011, 02:12 IST
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Prakash Narain, an Indian American has been selected as the new Mayor Pro Term of Cypress, by the five member city council. He has been a mayor earlier during the year 2009-2010 and now this will be the second term he would be serving on the Cypress City Council.

Prakash Narain was approved at a council meeting which was held at the Cypress City Council Chambers, on December 12th, 2011. He will be in charge of this prestigious position for one year, till December 2012.

Prakash Narein, is the first Indian American and first physician to be elected to Cypress City Council, who was a member of the council for the last five years. In 2006, he was selected to the City Council and three years later, in 2009, he became the Mayor Pro Term. In the year 2010, he was chosen as the mayor of Cypress.

He also functioned as a member for Acacia Adult Day Care advisory Board and was a former Volunteer Physician Advisor for the Cypress Police Department.

Prakash who grew up in Ranchi, later on settled in Patna with his family. After shifting to US in the year 1980 he joined Chicago’s St. Joseph’s Hospital, where he specialized in Internal Medicine.From UCLA medical center and the VA Westwood hospital at Los Angeles, he completed his geriatrics fellowship