Sumit Parikh

Bio

Sumit Parikh, MD is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Neurogenetics, Metabolic & Mitochondrial Disease program. As a member of the Mitochondrial Care Network, he directs the Cleveland Clinic Mitochondrial Medicine Center and provides multidisciplinary expert and coordinated care to Mitochondrial Disease patients. The program has cared for hundreds of patients with primary mitochondrial disease. More information about the Center is available online at this link.

He also helps manage the Cleveland Clinic’s Fetal Neurology Program, Multidisciplinary CDKL5 Syndrome Clinic, Autism Spectrum Evaluation Team and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Program. His clinic serves as one of several national sites for the Global Leukodystrophy Initiative’s White Matter Disease clinics.

His clinical and research interests include the genetic diagnosis, management and treatment of patients with developmental disability, cognitive and developmental regression, mitochondrial diseases, leukodystrophies, and neurologic metabolic diseases. He sees pediatric and select adult patients.

Dr. Parikh completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in child neurology at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. He received additional training in genetics and metabolism at Cleveland Clinic and Centers for Inherited Diseases of Metabolism. Dr. Parikh has had the privilege of having Bruce Cohen, Charles Hoppel and Marvin Natowicz serve as his teachers during that time.

He joined the Cleveland Clinic in 2004. Since 2007, Dr. Parikh has been selected as one of “America’s Best Doctors.”

Dr. Parikh is part of the North American Mitochondrial Disease Research Consortium (NAMDC) and the Primary Investigator for the Pearson Syndrome Natural History study.  He is an invited lecturer at national meetings and hospitals.

He serves as Scientific & Medical Advisor to the United Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. He is a Past-President of the Mitochondrial Medicine Society. He is a former invited faculty member of the North American Metabolic Academy.  He is an editor of the Mitochondrial and Metabolic Medicine journal. He is an ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Child Neurology, Journal of Inherited Metabolic Disease and Molecular Genetics & Metabolism. He has served on the scientific planning committee of the Child Neurology Society.

His professional memberships include being an affiliate specialist with the American College of Medical Genetics, and a fellow of the American Academy of Neurology, Child Neurology Society, Society for Inherited Metabolic Disease, and Society for Study of Inborn Errors of Metabolism.