Rahul K. Parikh is an American pediatrician practicing in the

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Bay Area, and who is also employed by

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in Walnut Creek, California, as the associate Physician-in-Chief of Patient Education in the Diablo Service Area. He writes a regular column, called "PopRX", for ''Salon'' about various medicine-related topics. 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, and for the ''

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'' about the effectiveness of workplace wellness programs. Parikh has also written an article for ''

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'' about

neonatal intensive care unit A neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), also known as an intensive care nursery (ICN), is an intensive care unit (ICU) specializing in the care of ill or premature newborn infants. Neonatal refers to the first 28 days of life. Neonatal care, as k ...

s and whether or not prematurely-born infants born between 23 and 26 weeks of gestation should be resuscitated.

Biography

Parikh grew up in

Orange County, California Orange County is located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area in Southern California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 3,186,989, making it the third-most-populous county in California, the sixth-most-populous in the United States, ...

, and attended the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

, where he received a degree in

molecular biology Molecular biology is the branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions. The study of chemical and phys ...

. After graduating, he took a year off from college, attended

Tufts University School of Medicine The Tufts University School of Medicine is the medical school of Tufts University, a private research university in Massachusetts. It was established in 1893 and is located on the university's health sciences campus in downtown Boston. The ''T ...

, and completed his residency in pediatrics, first at

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a nonprofit, tertiary, 886-bed teaching hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in Los Angeles, California. Part of the Cedars-Sinai Health System, the hospital employs a staff of over 2, ...

, and then at a hospital in

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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 ikesoft science, circular logic, reporting rumors and outright falsehoods."

Personal life

Parikh is married and has two daughters.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parikh, Rahul American pediatricians Living people People from Orange County, California University of California, Berkeley alumni Tufts University School of Medicine alumni American medical journalists Journalists from California Year of birth missing (living people)