Doctor Parekh is currently a Consultant in Acute, Critical Care, and Respiratory Medicine at University Hospitals Birmingham, UK, a Senior Lecturer at Royal College Membership exams, and a member of the Perioperative, Anaesthesia, Critical Care, and Trauma Trials (PACCT) group.

Doctor Dhruv Parekh completed his medical training at St. Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine, London, UK in 2003. He obtained his bachelor's degree with honors in medical sciences and won numerous prizes and awards during his undergraduate training. After initial training, he commenced clinical training in Respiratory, General Internal, and Intensive Care Medicine.

He was awarded a highly competitive Medical Research Council (MRC) Clinical Research Training Fellowship. His Ph.D. investigated if vitamin D deficiency is a mechanistic driver of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which was completed in collaboration with the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick and the West Midlands ARDS network in the UK.

Doctor Parekh has contributed to clinical trials and studies of vitamin D to prevent ARDS and statins in pneumonia and sepsis. He contributes to supervising undergraduate students and teaching respiratory modules on the Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB) course at the University.

Doctor Parekh has research interests in respiratory, peri-operative, and intensive care medicine. His research also focuses on investigating novel therapeutic targets and increasing the understanding of the mechanisms of injury involved in sepsis and ARDS. His cellular interests have developed in the area of innate immunity and specifically macrophage and monocyte biology and function.

He has presented at many national and international meetings and has been the holder of the American Thoracic Society International Trainee Scholarship in 2014.