Ankur R. Parikh, D.O., is a medical oncologist and hematologist-oncologist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America^® in Philadelphia. Upon earning his osteopathic medical degree from Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, he completed an internal medicine residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. He then completed a hematology-oncology fellowship at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. There, he served as a principal and associate investigator for clinical research protocols involving myelodysplastic syndrome and aplastic anemia