M.B.B.S., M.D. (Paediatrics), D.C.H.
46 years
Dr. Parekh graduated from the University of Mumbai. He then earned his MD in Paediatrics from Topiwala National Medical College (TNMC) and Nair Hospital, as well as his DCH. A leading paediatrician in South Mumbai, Dr. Parekh has been in private practice since 1978. He also served as the paediatrician for the household of His Excellency, the Governor of Maharashtra, in 1980. Dr. Parekh worked in the infectious diseases department at Kasturba Hospital as an Assistant Honorary Professor and Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at Nair Hospital. In 1987, he joined Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital and Research Centre as an Honorary Paediatrician. He has also held the position of Head of the Department of Paediatrics at Kasturba Hospital and served as a Professor of Paediatrics at TNMC and Nair Hospital from 1991 to 2001.
Additionally, Dr. Parekh ranked first in DCH and received the Mrs. Indumati Zaveri Prize (Gold Medal). He has been actively engaged in research and has authored publications on various paediatric subspecialties in several journals over the past 37 years. Dr. Parekh contributed a chapter on measles in the ‘Textbook of Medicine’ (2008) and another on paediatric tuberculosis in a UK-published book on thoracic surgery.