Sumit Parikh MD

Sumit Parikh, MD is the Director of the Cleveland Clinic Neurogenetics, Metabolic & Mitochondrial Disease program. As a member of the Mitochondrial Care Network, he directs the Cleveland Clinic Mitochondrial Medicine Center and provides multidisciplinary expert and coordinated care to Mitochondrial Disease patients. The program has cared for hundreds of patients with primary mitochondrial disease. He also helps manage the Cleveland Clinic's Fetal Neurology Program, Multidisciplinary CDKL5 Syndrome Clinic, Autism Spectrum Evaluation Team, and Cyclic Vomiting Syndrome Program. His clinic serves as one of several national sites for the Global Leukodystrophy Initiative's White Matter Disease clinics.

His clinical and research interests include the genetic diagnosis, management, and treatment of patients with a developmental disability, cognitive and developmental regression, mitochondrial diseases, leukodystrophies, and neurologic metabolic diseases. He sees pediatric and select adult patients.

Dr. Parikh completed his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in child neurology at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He received additional training in genetics and metabolism at Cleveland Clinic and the Centers for Inherited Diseases of Metabolism. Dr. Parikh has had the privilege of having Bruce Cohen, Charles Hoppel and Marvin Natowicz serve as his teachers during that time.