Dr. Parikh received his AB from Harvard and MD from Johns Hopkins. He trained in Internal Medicine at the MGH and then trained in Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology at the Brigham and Women's Hospital before returning to the MGH for training in Vascular Medicine and Endovascular Intervention. He was recruited to Case Western Reserve University in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and subsequently as an Associate Professor to Columbia University Medical Center in 2016. He has an active practice in cardiovascular medicine with a focus on atherosclerotic vascular disease and intervention throughout the circulation. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Interventional Cardiology, Vascular Medicine, and Endovascular Intervention. Amongst his clinical and teaching responsibilities, he is the Director of Endovascular Services at CUMC, directs the Endovascular Fellowship Program, and has an active role at CRF leading efforts in Vascular Education and Research. He is active in education and clinical research having authored numerous publications in basic and clinical cardiovascular medicine and lectures regularly at national meetings including the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association (AHA), the Society for Coronary Angiography and Intervention (SCAI), and Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) as well as regional meetings.  Dr. Parikh is an SCAI/ACC/CRF Emerging Leaders Mentorship (ELM) Fellow for 2013–2015 and is actively engaged in numerous activities within SCAI and the ACC.