The University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Neurosurgery welcomes Kara Parikh, M.D., as an assistant professor.
Parikh completed her medical education at Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans and neurosurgical residency at the University of Tennessee Health and Science Center. She completed an enfolded skull base and complex cranial fellowship with Madison Michael II, M.D., and Nickalus Khan, M.D., at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in 2025 and a skull base fellowship at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center with Daniel Prevedello, M.D., MBA, in 2026. At UAB, she will focus on bringing minimally invasive skull base surgery techniques to the Department of Neurosurgery’s skull base team.
Outside of practicing medicine, Parikh enjoys distance running, traveling and trying new cuisine.