Nainesh Parikh, MD

Nainesh Parikh, MD, is vice president and Chief Clinical Expansion and Partnerships officer for Moffitt Cancer Center. He leads the Office of Clinical Expansion & Partnerships, which is focused on expanding care into the community closer to patients’ homes and partnering with organizations and institutions who share a similar mission to prevent and cure cancer.  

Dr. Parikh joined Moffitt in 2016 and most recently served as the assistant chief medical officer. He is an associate member of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging and Interventional Radiology, and his clinical area of focus is the utilization of minimally invasive techniques to treat patients with benign and malignant tumors within the genitourinary (GU) system. He has pioneered the development of prostate artery embolization (PAE) for men who have prostate cancer

Dr. Parikh earned his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in New York and subsequently worked as an investment banker on Wall Street. Determined to make a significant impact on the daily lives of patients, he obtained his medical and business degrees from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. He also completed his diagnostic radiology residency at NYU Medical Center and a fellowship in angiography and interventional radiology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital – Harvard Medical School.