Dr. Premkumar is a maternal-fetal medicine subspecialist and a medical anthropologist, broadly interested in comprehensive reproductive health. He completed his BA and MD as part of the Seven Year Accelerated Liberal Arts/Medical Education Program at Boston University. He subsequently completed a residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at University of California San Francisco and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Northwestern University. As part of his fellowship, he completed his doctorate in cultural anthropology at Northwestern University.

His research and clinical practice is focused on two goals: 1) To Improve the quality of reproductive decision-making in the setting of prenatally-diagnosed congenital anomalies, especially those amenable to maternal-fetal surgery, and 2) To innovate methods to improve health outcomes of pregnant individuals who choose to proceed with different forms of management of prenatally-diagnosed congenital anomalies, inclusive of maternal-fetal surgery and abortion care.

Dr. Premkumar has been published widely in multiple peer-reviewed journals in the biomedical and social sciences. He has been funded by groups like the Society of Family Planning and the International Institute of Research in Paris, as part of the University of Chicago, for his work.