title: Rajiv Parakh
text: # Rajiv Parakh
  
  Rajiv Parakh is the chairman at the Division of Peripheral Vascular and Endovascular Sciences at Medanta, Gurgaon, India. In 1986 he completed his vascular surgery training and acquired a fellowship from the Royal College of Surgeons in the United Kingdom. He returned to India where, in 1990, he established one of the country's first independent departments of vascular surgery at a city hospital.
  
  In 2007, Parakh became the secretary of the International Society for Vascular Surgery in New York City.
  
  Parakh's vascular team handles at Medanta cases of leg ulcers, leg attacks, stroke, gangrene and limb threatening trauma.
  
  ## Expertise in
  
  * Peripheral Vascular & Endovascular surgery
  * Carotid Surgery
  * Endovascular Interventions
  * Endovascular aneurysm repair
  * Below the knee angioplasty
  * Vascular Trauma
  
  ## Memberships & certifications
  
  * Elected Vice President of International Society for Vascular Surgery (USA), 2010
  * Elected Secretary of International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS), USA- 2007
  * Founder & Life Member of Vascular Society of India (VSI) 1997
  * Founder & Executive Committee Member of Endovascular Intervention Society of India (EISI)
  * Member of the European Society of Vascular Surgery (ESVS))
  * National Convener for the Fellowship programme in Vascular Surgery of the National Board of Examiners, New Delhi – now upgraded to Diploma in Peripheral Vascular & Endovascular surgery
  
  ## Awards
  
  * Vice President of International Society for Vascular Surgeon (U.S.A)
  * Prof. Hari Vaishnava Oration
  * Organizing Chairman 13th Annual Conference of Vascular Society of India attended by the President and Treasurer of the Vascular Society of Great Britain and the Editor of the European Journal of Vascular Surgery
  * Sushil Malik Oration
  
  ## Publications
  
  * International, multicentre, randomized, double blind study to compare the overall mortality in acutely ill medical patients treated with enoxaprin versus placebo in addition to graduated elastic stockings
  * Assessment of Total thrombus load estimation in symptomatic patients with venous thromboembolism
  * Takayasu's arteritis: An Indian Perspective
  * Pulmonary embolism: A frequent Occurrence in Indian Patients with Symptomatic Lower Limb Venous Thrombosis
  * Snapshots in Surgery : Pulsatile Scrotum
  * Prevention and treatment of venous thromboembolism. International Consensus Statement (Guidelines according to scientific evidence).
  * Cervical Asymmetry: Medical Images.
  * Asymptomatic Coronary Artery disease in patients with symptomatic peripheral vascular disease - detected by dobutamine stress echo and coronary angiography.
  * Studies on homocysteine demonstrating its significance as a possible tool for differential diagnosis in occlusive vascular disease
  * Limb Salvage angioplasty in vascular surgery practice
  