Kalpaj Parekh, MBBS, has been named seat and departmental enforcement serviceman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery with University of Iowa Health Care, pursuing a nationalist search.
Parekh’s assignment is effectual Nov. 1. He has served arsenic interim seat of the section since September 2021. The Board of Regents, State of Iowa, approved the university’s petition to found a freestanding Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery successful summertime 2021.
“Dr. Parekh has done a large occupation starring the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery implicit the past year, and we’re excited to spot however his imaginativeness and enactment volition proceed to determination the section forward,” says Brooks Jackson, MD, MBA, UI vice president for aesculapian affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean of the Carver College of Medicine. “As an accomplished clinician, scientist, mentor, and collaborator present astatine Iowa for implicit 15 years, Dr. Parekh has beardown enactment crossed the department. I look guardant to having him proceed arsenic a subordinate of our enactment team.”
Parekh served arsenic the manager of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery successful the Department of Surgery from 2016 until the part became its ain department.
Parekh, who holds the endowed Nicholas P. Rossi Professorship successful Cardiothoracic Surgery, serves arsenic surgical manager of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery’s lung transplant program. He besides has a secondary module assignment successful the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology.
His probe interests see chronic lung allograft dysfunction aft lung transplantation. His existent probe projects see the improvement of airway stem cells arsenic a imaginable therapeutic instrumentality successful lung illness and the relation of epithelial stem cells successful lung transplant rejection. Parekh has published adjacent to 100 probe manuscripts and publication chapters, and helium has fixed dozens of probe abstract presentations astatine nationalist and planetary conferences.
Parekh is 1 of the fewer cardiothoracic surgeons who directs a National Institutes of Health-funded probe program; 1.3% of cardiothoracic surgeons successful the U.S. are funded by the NIH.
As an educator, Parekh gives lectures connected wide country and thoracic country and works intimately with nonmigratory physicians, chap physicians, and third- and fourth-year aesculapian students. He besides has provided mentorship and supervision for galore MD and PhD students successful the Carver College of Medicine.
His memberships to nonrecreational organizations see the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Chest Physicians, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and the American Association for Thoracic Surgery. He besides serves connected the committee of directors of the Iowa Donor Network.
“I americium precise grateful for the accidental to service arsenic seat of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, and I look guardant to moving with organization leaders and our multidisciplinary teams to proceed to turn UI excellence and innovation successful the attraction of patients with cardiothoracic illnesses, beforehand cutting-edge research, and supply world-class education,” Parekh says.
Parekh joined the UI module successful 2006 aft completing residency grooming successful cardiothoracic country astatine UI Hospitals & Clinics. Before that, helium completed a fellowship successful wide thoracic country astatine Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center successful New York City and a fellowship successful lung transplantation astatine Washington University School of Medicine successful St. Louis. He earned a aesculapian grade astatine the University of Mumbai successful India, followed by residency grooming successful wide country and categorial wide country astatine Lenox Hill Hospital successful New York City.
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