Puja B Parikh, MD

Dr. Puja Parikh, MD MPH, FACC, FAHA, FSCAI is an Interventional Cardiologist, the Director of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) Program at Stony Brook University Medical Center, and Professor of Medicine with Tenure at Stony Brook Renaissance School of Medicine. Dr. Parikh's procedural expertise includes complex percutaneous coronary interventions ("stents"), transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), transcatheter closures of patent foramen ovale (PFO)/atrial septal defect (ASD), transcatheter mitral valve interventions, paravalvular leak intervention, left atrial appendage closures, and endomyocardial biopsies.  

Dr. Parikh is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association (AHA), and Society of Coronary Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). She is active in clinical research, serving as Principal Investigator in multiple cardiovascular clinical trials and authoring over 120 peer-reviewed manuscripts in several high-impact journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and Circulation. She has served on the national AHA/ACC Joint Committee on Performance Measures. She is a frequent lecturer at national and international cardiology conferences and has served as a live course lecturer for the national ACC/SCAI Interventional Cardiology Overview and Board Prep course, teaching principles of aortic stenosis, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, and antiplatelet therapies.

Dr. Parikh is also on the question writing committee for CathSap, the most widely used board review question bank for the Interventional Cardiology Board Examination. She has co-authored the 2022 SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on Sex-Specific Considerations in Myocardial Revascularization, the 2025 SCAI Expert Consensus Statement on Alternative Access in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement, and the 2025 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Adults with Congenital Heart Disease and serves on the national writing group for Appropriate Use Criteria for coronary revascularization. Dr. Parikh also serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Heart Association and the Journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, and has served as a guest associate editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.  

In 2017, Dr. Parikh was selected as one of 12 interventional cardiologists worldwide for the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Emerging Leader Mentorship (ELM) Fellowship. In 2022, she was selected as one of 25 cardiologists nationally for the American College of Cardiology Emerging Faculty Leadership Academy. In 2024, she was selected for the national American College of Cardiology Advanced Educator series. In 2025, she was selected as one of 22 female cardiologists nationally for the Sandra J. Lewis Mid-Career Women’s Leadership Institute. Her other national/international awards include the American College of Cardiology Young Investigator Finalist Award, the Cardiovascular Revascularization Therapies Young Leaders Recognition Award, the Catheterizations and Cardiovascular Interventions journal’s Christopher White Early Career Reviewer Award, and most recently, the Long Island Business News Health Care Heroes Award. 

A graduate of New York University, Dr. Parikh received her medical degree from Stony Brook University Medical School and completed both her Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at Stony Brook University Medical Center. She subsequently went on to complete both her Interventional Cardiology fellowship and an advanced fellowship in Structural and Valvular Heart Intervention at Columbia University Medical Center. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Echocardiography, and Interventional Cardiology.    

• Association between therapeutic hypothermia and long-term quality of life in survivors of cardiac arrest: A systematic review.
  
  Patel JK | Parikh PB
  Resuscitation
  2016 Apr 7
  
  
• Impact of Heart Disease on Maternal and Fetal Outcomes in Pregnant Women.
  
  Koutrolou-Sotiropoulou P | Parikh PB | Miller C | Lima FV | Butler J | Stergiopoulos K
  The American journal of cardiology
  2015 Aug 1
  
  
• Association of cardiomyopathy with adverse cardiac events in pregnant women at the time of delivery.
  
  Lima FV | Parikh PB | Zhu J | Yang J | Stergiopoulos K
  JACC. Heart failure
  2015 Mar
  
  
• Association of elevated radiation dose with mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  Parikh PB | Prakash S | Tahir U | Kort S | Gruberg L | Jeremias A
  Cardiovascular revascularization medicine : including molecular interventions
  2014 Sep-Oct
  
  
• The impact of financial barriers on access to care, quality of care and vascular morbidity among patients with diabetes and coronary heart disease.
  
  Parikh PB | Yang J | Leigh S | Dorjee K | Parikh R | Sakellarios N | Meng H | Brown DL
  Journal of general internal medicine
  2014 Jan
  
  
• Rating the preferences for potential harms of treatments for cardiovascular disease: a survey of community-dwelling adults.
  
  Zhang G | Parikh PB | Zabihi S | Brown DL
  Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making
  2013 May
  
  
• The impact of previous revascularization on clinical outcomes in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  Bench TJ | Parikh PB | Jeremias A | Brener SJ | Naidu SS | Shlofmitz RA | Pappas T | Marzo KP | Gruberg L
  The Journal of invasive cardiology
  2013 Apr
  
  
• Determinants of bare-metal stent use in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  Parikh PB | Jeremias A | Naidu SS | Brener SJ | Shlofmitz RA | Pappas T | Marzo KP | Gruberg L
  The Journal of invasive cardiology
  2013 Mar
  
  
• Impact of severity of renal dysfunction on determinants of in-hospital mortality among patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  Parikh PB | Jeremias A | Naidu SS | Brener SJ | Lima F | Shlofmitz RA | Pappas T | Marzo KP | Gruberg L
  Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions : official journal of the Society for Cardiac Angiography & Interventions
  2012 Sep 1
  
  
• Forget Mars and venus, men and women are from the same planet after all.
  
  Parikh PB | Gruberg L
  The Journal of invasive cardiology
  2012 Jun
  
  
• Does the revised appropriate use criteria for echocardiography represent an improvement over the initial criteria? A comparison between the 2011 and the 2007 appropriateness use criteria for echocardiography.
  
  Parikh PB | Asheld J | Kort S
  Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography
  2012 Feb
  
  
• Association of health insurance status with presentation and outcomes of coronary artery disease among nonelderly adults undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  Parikh PB | Gruberg L | Jeremias A | Chen JJ | Naidu SS | Shlofmitz RA | Brener SJ | Pappas T | Marzo KP | Brown DL
  American heart journal
  2011 Sep
  
  
• Effect of gender and race on outcomes in dialysis-dependent patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
  
  Parikh PB | Jeremias A | Naidu SS | Brener SJ | Shlofmitz RA | Pappas T | Marzo KP | Gruberg L
  The American journal of cardiology
  2011 May 1