Dr. Rikesh T. Parikh, M.D. is a Double Board Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Aesthetic Facial Body Plastic Surgery of Seattle | Bellevue. He focuses primarily on cosmetic surgery of the face, breast, and body. He is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. Both of these Boards are recognized by the Gold Standard American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). In summary Dr. Parikh is highly skilled, his medical education consists of nine years of postgraduate training at major medical institutions around the country. He initially completed a five-year General Surgery residency at the State University of New York. This residency was followed by three years of specialized residency training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He also completed a one-year research fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio prior to residency training. After medical school, Dr. Parikh completed a one-year research fellowship in Surgery at the prestigious Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. During this time, he published multiple articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals.