Dr. Parekh is a professor and chairman of the urology department at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. In 2017, he was also named chief clinical officer of the system. In 2020, he was named COO for the system, overseeing the health system’s operations while collaborating with many leaders on ambulatory strategy, inpatient clinical operations, optimizing the clinical care team model and advancing performance improvement efforts across the health system. In addition to his previous titles, in 2021 Dr. Parekh was named executive dean for clinical affairs at the Miller School of Medicine providing strategic counseling on enhancing the synergy between the system’s academic and clinical missions. Dr. Parekh is also a board-certified, fellowship trained urologist specializing in urologic oncology using minimally invasive laparoscopic, robotic and traditional open approaches to treat prostate, bladder and kidney cancer and has performed over 5,000 robotic urologic procedures.
