Samir M. Parikh MD, FASN, is Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology and Chief of the Division of Nephrology at the University of Texas Southwestern where he holds the Robert Tucker Hayes Distinguished Chair in Nephrology, in honor of Dr. Floyd C Rector, Jr., and the Ruth W. and Milton P. Levy, Sr., Chair in Molecular Nephrology.

His research is focused on mechanisms underlying age-related organ dysfunction. Work from his team has been published in Nature, Nature Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, Cell Metabolism, JCI, PNAS and other high-impact journals.

Dr. Parikh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard with a degree in chemistry and received the Founders Medal for highest academic standing from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed residency and fellowship training in Nephrology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center where he subsequently attained the rank of Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He directed a research center and served as Associate Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine at BIDMC before moving to Southwestern in 2021.

His mentorship and teaching have been recognized by multiple awards. Dr. Parikh is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (2017), the American Association of Physicians (2021), the Interurban Clinical Club (2019), and the Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (2022). He has received the Outstanding Investigator Award from the National Heart Lung Blood Institutes (2018), the Sir William Osler Award from the Interurban Clinical Club (2018), and the 2019 Donald W. Seldin Award from the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) and the American Heart Association.

In 2023, Dr. Parikh was appointed chair of PBKD, one of two standing study sections at the NIH that evaluate experimental kidney research grant applications. He was also elected to a four-year term on ASN’s Executive Council during which he will serve as President in 2026.