Neil R. Parikh, MD MBA is Vice President at HealthQuest Capital, where he serves as a healthcare-focused growth investor.  HealthQuest looks to partner with commercial-stage healthcare companies across medical device, diagnostics, digital health, health services, and healthcare IT categories.

Prior to joining HealthQuest in 2022, he practiced as a Board-Certified Radiation Oncologist at the San Antonio Cancer Center with a focus on genitourinary and central nervous system malignancies. He completed his Radiation Oncology training at UCLA, where his primary research interests focused on value-based healthcare in radiation oncology, and integration of novel technologies/techniques for prostate cancer (e.g., PSMA imaging, SBRT). While at UCLA, he also completed the Biodesign Fellowship, and co-founded "CranioView", a medical device company focused on noninvasively detecting elevated intracranial pressure in patients with acute neurologic injury.  Prior to this training, he pursued his interest in health policy and health economics, spending two years as a healthcare consultant at McKinsey & Company where he served payors, providers and life science companies.

Neil holds a B.A. in Economics from Rice University, M.D. from Baylor College of Medicine, and M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.