Dr. Sapna Parikh

MYFOXNY.COM - Sapna Parikh,MD,MPH is Fox 5's medical correspondent. She contributes feature, fitness, investigative and informational reports on the latest advances in medicine to Good Day New York, the Fox 5 News at 5:00, 6:00 and 10:00 p.m., and to the national FOX affiliate stations.

Before joining Fox 5, Dr. Parikh was a medical reporter for "CBS 2 News This Morning" in New York City. She completed her internship in general surgery at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan and earned her medical degree from Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Dr. Parikh completed a Master's of Public Health in health policy and health promotion through Hunter College of New York City, and focused her culminating capstone project on the issue of childhood obesity. As part of her fieldwork experience, Dr. Parikh worked with the Health Department to implement nutrition and fitness programs in New York City public schools, and served as a Building Wellness Facilitator for the I Have a Dream Foundation, helping to educate teenagers on health and fitness.

Currently a member of the American Medical Association, the American Public Health Association, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the South Asian Journalists Association, Dr. Parikh is licensed to practice medicine in the State of New York.

In 2008, Dr. Parikh was the only television reporter invited by former First Lady Laura Bush to accompany her on a humanitarian mission to Haiti and Mexico City to visit US funded HIV clinics, and launch a national breast cancer partnership. Her other notable reports include an exclusive interview with NASA astronauts during a training mission inside Aquarius, the only underwater laboratory in the world located at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean and accessible only by scuba diving.

During her medical training, Dr. Parikh traveled to the Amazon region of Brazil where the medical team lived on boats and provided care to remote villages along the shores of the Amazon River. She is the recipient of a National Merit Scholarship, the National Xerox Award for the Humanities, the National Harvard Book Award for Outstanding Achievement in Academics and the Arts, and an Emmy nomination in the category of on-air achievement in a specialty craft.

Prior to her work as a physician and television reporter, Dr. Parikh was a promotional model and professional singer and dancer.

She resides in New York City.