Sahil Parikh, MD

Parikh is the Director of Endovascular Services and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons. His clinical practice focuses on complex coronary artery disease, peripheral arterial disease (including claudication and critical limb ischemia), renovascular disease, cerebrovascular disease, and venous disease and thrombosis. He has won numerous teaching awards locally and co-directs several national educational programs for physicians in training and for continuing medical education in conjunction with the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, the American College of Cardiology, and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions. His research interests focus on novel endovascular devices for the treatment of vascular disease, and he has been the site and national principal investigator for several clinical trials and has authored more than 50 original manuscripts and reviews. Parikh grew up in northern New Jersey and went on to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard College with an AB in Biomedical Sciences and Engineering; he then earned his MD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, completed his internal medicine residency and chief residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and did his cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a vascular medicine and intervention fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, vascular medicine, and endovascular intervention.