Dr. Parikh graduated from Harvard College with an AB in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering and went on to earn his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology fellowships at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Vascular Medicine and Intervention fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital, all teaching hospitals of the Harvard Medical School in Boston. Thereafter, he was recruited to the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine faculty as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and serves as a faculty interventional cardiologist in the Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Parikh trained in Dr. Edelman's laboratory as an undergraduate, medical student and post-doctoral fellow and has a broad interest in vascular injury and repair as well as local vascular drug delivery for the treatment of atherosclerotic vascular disease throughout the circulation. He continues to be actively engaged in preclinical and clinical research of novel interventional device therapies as well as clinical education in the field of vascular intervention.