Kunal Parikh

Kunal Parikh is a physician-turned-digital health strategist dedicated to transforming healthcare through technology, aging innovation, and caregiver support. After practicing medicine in India for three years, he shifted to digital health to drive systemic impact. 
 
Over the past six years, Kunal has led aging and caregiving initiatives that reshaped healthcare delivery. As the first employee at a startup, he helped scale operations from a Minimum Viable Product to a commercial platform serving 12,000 unpaid caregivers across North America. His graduate research on virtual caregiver training revealed that many caregivers don’t recognize themselves as such—insight that inspired his TEDx talk, “Did You Know You Are A Caregiver?”, and a framework to enhance caregiver inclusion. 
 
At Queen’s University, Kunal earned the Award of Excellence for his contributions to aging and caregiving research. He has designed “The Anatomy of an Ideal Caregiver Intervention”, a workshop for age-tech companies, and co-authored “The Digitally Empowered Patient”, a white paper on digital health access. Currently a Senior Systems Analyst at The Ottawa Hospital, Kunal integrates patient and caregiver needs into digital transformation. A professor at Algonquin College, he teaches digital health innovation and continues to advocate for inclusive, caregiver-integrated healthcare.