Rahul Parikh Explained

Rahul K. Parikh is an American pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area,[1] and who is also employed by Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek, California, as the associate Physician-in-Chief of Patient Education in the Diablo Service Area.[2] He writes a regular column, called "PopRX", for Salon about various medicine-related topics.[3] He has also written for CNN about how vaccines do not cause autism, and how important he considers it to be for parents to get their children vaccinated,[4] and for the Los Angeles Times about the effectiveness of workplace wellness programs.[5] Parikh has also written an article for The New York Times about neonatal intensive care units and whether or not prematurely-born infants born between 23 and 26 weeks of gestation should be resuscitated.[6]

Biography

Parikh grew up in Orange County, California, and attended the University of California, Berkeley, where he received a degree in molecular biology. After graduating, he took a year off from college, attended Tufts University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in pediatrics, first at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,[7] and then at a hospital in Mumbai.[8]

Defender of vaccination

Parikh is an outspoken defender of vaccinations, and has described anti-vaccine pediatrician Robert Sears as someone whose "understanding of vaccines is deeply flawed," that his Vaccine Book "is a nightmare for pediatricians like me," and "is peppered with misleading innuendo and factual errors." He also writes that "Sears misleads parents," using "tactics [like] soft science, circular logic, reporting rumors and outright falsehoods."

Personal life

Parikh is married and has two daughters.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About/Contact . rahulkparikh.com . 30 January 2014.
  2. http://mydoctor.kaiserpermanente.org/ncal/provider/parikh Rahul Parikh
  3. Web site: PopRX . . 30 January 2014 . Parikh, Rahul K..
  4. Web site: No vaccine-autism link: Get kids shots . . 29 June 2010 . 30 January 2014 . Parikh, Rahul K..
  5. Web site: Do workplace wellness programs work? . https://web.archive.org/web/20130925043647/http://articles.latimes.com/2013/sep/15/opinion/la-oe-parikh-employee-wellness-programs-20130912 . dead . September 25, 2013 . . 15 September 2013 . 30 January 2014 . Parikh, Rahul.
  6. Web site: In Preemies, Better Care Also Means Hard Choice . . 13 August 2012 . 30 January 2014 . Parikh, Rahul K..
  7. Web site: Rahul Parikh . Kaiser Permanente Website . 30 January 2014.
  8. Web site: Parents, don't be immune to vaccine truths . . 20 April 2009 . 24 February 2014 . Parikh, Rahul.