Dr. Falguni Parikh

AREA(S) OF INTEREST:

Infectious Diseases including Tuberculosis, HIV and Tropical infection, Adult Immunization, Prolonged fevers, Medical management of patients with multisystem involvement, geriatric issues, metabolic diseases and nutritional deficiencies, Primary & secondary Hypertension

TREATMENTS/PROCEDURES OFFERED:

Tuberculosis (extrapulmonary and pulmonary), HIV, tropical infections and emerging new infections like H1N1 influenza, Adult Immunization, Prolonged pyrexia

NAME OF INSTITUTE(S):

• B.Y.L. Nair Charitable Hospital, Mumbai, India
• Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai, India

FELLOWSHIPS:

• Awarded Hargobind Medical Foundation Fellowship for clinical observership in Department of Critical care medicine and Infectious diseases at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, USA in 2004.
• Completed Certificate course in Infectious diseases organized by Hinduja Hospital in association with Henry Ford Hospitals USA in 2007.

• Invited to become Executive life member of Clinical Infectious Diseases Society (CIDS) in 2019 in recognition of dedicated efforts in the field of Infectious Diseases.
• Conferred “Distinguished services Award” for contribution in Influenza and vaccine related fields’ on World Influenza day 13th April 2016 at VP chest institute, Delhi  by the Influenza foundation of India, Geriatric Society of India and Vaccine advocacy Forum,APACI,IFPMA.
• Awarded Certificate of Appreciation by the Government of Maharashtra state (India) for Management of patients with monsoon related illnesses post deluge of 26/7/2006.
• Conferred FICP (Fellowship of Indian College of Physicians-Academic Wing of Association of  Physicians of India.)
•  Awarded 2nd prize(Dr. J. N. Karbhase Shield) in senior staff category for paper on ‘Critical illness in pregnancy- MICU experience’ presented at the194th scientific meeting held on 26th September 2006 by Staff Society of B.Y. L. Nair Charitable Hospital for 2006-2007.
• Hargobind Medical Foundation Fellowship in 2004.
• Awarded MJ Shah Memorial award in Tropical Medicine for work on “Changing Spectrum of Leptospirosis” by the Association of Physicians of India at their Annual conference APICON held in Varanasi in 2003.
• Recipient of the prize for the BEST THESIS in thesis competition for MD Medicine students of BYL Nair Charitable Hospital (1994).
• Recipient of FIRST PRIZE for poster presentation on “Evaluation of efficacy and safety of a combination of Norfloxacin and Tinidazole in the treatment of acute infective diarrhoeas” at APICON (1996), Kathmandu, Nepal.
• Recepient of Smt. Melarani Jaigopal Mohla Award for standing first amongst female students of TN Medical College at third MBBS Examination.(1989)
• DISTINCTION in ENT and Ophthalmology at third MBBS examination.(1989)

Dr. Parikh worked for Fifteen years as a faculty (Assistant professor followed by Associate professor) in Internal Medicine at the prestigious B.Y.L. Nair hospital and Topiwala National Medical College which is a 1500 bedded multispecialty tertiary care hospital with a medical college situated in South Mumbai. She has wide experience in handling patients with multiple medical issues.

During her tenure at Nair Hospital she was attached to Tropical Medicine Clinic and Hypertension Clinic right from their inception in 1993. In addition she was also In charge of 23 bedded closed Medical Intensive Care Unit.

She along with her team was instrumental in upgrading the ICU services to meet quality standards of ISO 9001:2000 certification in 2005 which is a landmark achievement for a public hospital in India.

In addition to clinical services She has been actively involved in medical education and taught undergraduate and postgraduate students and has guided postgraduate students in their dissertation for MD and DNB programmes.

KDAH Experience

Dr. Parikh has wide experience in the field of Internal medicine and has handled patients with multiple medical issues, diagnostic dilemmas and geriatric patients. She has special interest in diagnosis and treatment of diseases common to the tropics like Malaria, Leptospirosis, Dengue, Typhoid, Chikungunya, and Tuberculosis. She has handled patients with tuberculosis of spine,chest,abdomen,lymph nodes,genitourinary tract,brain, eye and bones. She has managed infections like rickettsial infections, hydatid disease, cysticercosis, amoebiasis, tropical eosinophilia and filariasis besides rare bacterial and viral infections like Brucellosis, Ebstein Barr virus infections, etc.

She offers comprehensive care of  patients with HIV/AIDS including management of opportunistic infectionsand sexually transmitted infections and non infectious co morbidities in these patients. She is particularly interested in evaluation,diagnosis and management of patients with prolonged fevers. She runs the Adult immunization clinic and offers vaccination advice. She has handled emerging and re emerging infections like H1N1 influenza, chikungunya, syphilis etc

Hypertension is a silent killer and a very important risk factor for heart, brain and kidney disease. Dr. Parikh specialises in management of essential hypertension and is particularly interested in the management of hypertension in pregnancy, and hypertension in young patients including secondary hypertension.

Editorial Experience

• Member Editorial board API textbook of Medicine 11th Edition.
• Associate Editor of Journal of Association of Physicians of India since 2009 till date
• Assistant Editor of API textbook of Medicine 8th edition
• Editorial Assistant of API textbook of Medicine 7th edition

Research Experience

Conducted clinical trials in malaria, catheter related blood stream infections, nosocomial pneumonias, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) infections, Menigococcal vaccine at Nair Hospital.

Teaching Experience

• Sixteen years of teaching experience as faculty at Nair Hospital.
• Has taught Undergraduate and postgraduate medical students, dental and nursing students
• Teacher for DNB (Medicine)at Kokilaben Hospital.
• Has been University examiner for 3rd year MBBS students (Mumbai University and Maharashtra University of Health Sciences)

More than 50 publications in peer reviewed national journals and one international publication.

Chapter in book

• Parikh Falguni. Vector Borne Diseases. Medicine update 2017 vol 27 (Ed. Bansode BR, Wander GS.) p.20-23.      
• Parikh Falguni ‘H1N1 (swine Flu) in India: Issues in Diagnosis, Management and Prophylaxis’.  Medicine Update 2016 (editors GS wander, KK Pareek).
• Parikh Falguni ‘Typhoid fever management in 2012 ‘Medicine Update vol 22, 2012 (editor S A Kamath).
• Parikh Falguni; Steroids and Vasopressors In ICU; Medicine Update 2011
• Parikh Falguni. Anemia in Tropical Parasitic Diseases in monograph on “Anemia  In Tropics” published by Indian College of Physicians 2009.
• Parikh Falguni. Pulmonary Eosinophilia in Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (Ed.  Dr. J. M. Joshi) 2009
• Hypertension - An International Monograph 2007 (Editor Dr Paul Anand) - Hypertension in Pregnancy, Commentary on Atenelol Trials

Chapter in API Textbook of Medicine

• Parikh Falguni. Immunization in  adults, Travel medicine and use of vaccines. API textbook of medicine 11th edition. (ed Sandhya Kamath). 2019
• Parikh Falguni. Mumps. API textbook of medicine 9th  edition.(ed Yash Pal Munjal) 2014
• Parikh Falguni. Severe acute respiratory syndrome API textbook of medicine 8th edition 2008
• Parikh Falguni. Food borne toxic diseases. API textbook of medicine 7th edition (ed Siddharth Shah) 2003.

Editorials in journal of Association of Physicians of India (JAPI)

• Falguni Parikh. Carbapenem-resistant Hypermucoviscous Klebsiella pneumoniae – Emerging  Superbug. Journal of The Association of Physicians of India. Vol. 66, December 2018.
• Falguni S Parikh. Fosfomycin: A Revived Antibiotic for Urinary Tract Infections JAPI September 2017   vol 65.
• Falguni Parikh. Infections and Thrombocytopenia. JAPI February 2016 vol. 64.
• Parikh Falguni, Shah Sweta.Ebola virus disease: are we prepared? JAPI September 2014 vol 62,12-14.
• Parikh Falguni . Echinococcosis - cut to cure but what about control? JAPI July 2012.
• Parikh Falguni   Experience from Influenza A (H1N1) Pandemic 2009 –Is Prevention better than Cure?  Journal of Association of Physicians of India vol.59 2011 p.11-12.
• Parikh Falguni, Kapoor Dheeraj; Homocysteine, Insulin Sensitivity and Cardiovascular Disease - Is There A Link?; Journal of Association of Physicians of India (JAPI); June 2009; Vol. 57, p 437-38
• Parikh Falguni; Changing Trends In Poisoning; Journal of Association of Physicians of India; November 2009; Vol 57, p 739
• Parikh Falguni. 'Status of Antibiotic Use In India; Supplement to JAPI Special Issue on Antibiotic Resistance; Vol 58; Dec 2010, p 7
• Kamath SA,Das AK, Parikh FS. Chikungunya.JAPI 2006.54:725-26.

Other publications

• Ishita Shah, Falguni Parikh Rare cause of uncontrolled Hypertension, Clinical journal of Hypertension. vol 1 issue no. 2, October-December 2016.
• Parikh Falguni,Kulkarni Bijal,Goyle Sandip. Kaposi's Sarcoma JAPI July 2014 vol. 62 (pictorial CME )
• Parikh Falguni; Rational Use of Antibiotics; Medical Image (Indian Medical Association Bulletin); Dec.2009; Vol 34, Issue 9
• GUEST EDITOR for Special Issue on Medical philately- Journal of Association of Physicians of India 2015
• Monthly Feature in Journal of Association of Physicians of India on Medical Philately - (Medicine through stamps)

Presentations at ID week conference

• Parikh Falguni, Shah Sweta. Antimicrobial sensitivity testing and its clinical implications in typhoid fever poster presented a ID week International conference San Diego October 2012.
• Utility of Xpert MTB/ RIF (CB-NAAT) for Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in a Tertiary Care Centre in Mumbai, India Falguni Parikh, MD; Sweta Shah, MD Aamreen Kazi, MScNamita Davar, PhDOpen Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 1, Issue suppl_1, Fall 2014, Page S378,https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofu052.983Published:01 December 2014
• Diagnostic Challenges in Spinal Tuberculosis and Role of Genexpert MTB/RIF Assay (Cartridge Based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test [CBNAAT]) Falguni Parikh, MD Jani Basha, MBBS Sweta Shah, MD Mihir Bapat, MS Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 2, Issue suppl_1, Fall 2015, 586,https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofv133.460Published:09 December 2015

Conference presentations

• Falguni Parikh, Mahin OS A study of patients referred to adult immunization clinic  poster   presented during 9th annual conference of CIDS 2019 Kochi(CIDSCON)
• Mayur Mane, Falguni Parikh, Amit Pandey. A case of atypical mycobacteria – Mycobacterium sherrisii infection in HIV patient with low CD4 count. Abstract JAPI vol 67. Feb 2019.
• Falguni Parikh.HIV and syphilis co infection. HIV congress 6-8 April 2018 Mumbai.
• Shaik Jani Basha , Falguni Parikh. Role of Genexpert MTB/RIF assay in Rapid Detection of Spine Tuberculosis and Identification of Rifampicin Resistance 7th annual conference of clinical infectious diseases society 2017 held in Nagpur.
• Ishita Shah, Falguni Parikh. Clinical Profile of Patients Admitted with H1N1 Influenza in a Tertiary Care   Hospital. JAPI Feb 2018 vol 66 Abstract. APICON 2017.
• Parikh Falguni HIV in healthcare worker – what do the guidelines say? HIV Congress - Held in Goa at Goa Marriot Resort and Spa, 18-20 March 2016.
• Parikh Falguni. Malignancies in HIV, Experience at KDAH - HIV conclave, March 2012 Mumbai. 
• Parikh Falguni, Shah Sweta, Davar Namita. Utility of xpert MTB Rif for diagnosis of Tuberculosis in tertiary care centre in Mumbai India presented at ID week International conference held in Philadelphia USA October 2014 poster no 1437.

 

Professional memberships

• Association of Physicians of India.
• Hypertension society of India.
• Infectious disease society of India.
• Infectious disease Society of America (Associate Member).
• Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine.
• Indian Medical Association.
• Association of Medical Consultants of India.
• Geriatric Society of India.