Pranay Parikh, MD
About
Pranay Parikh, MD is an American physician and physician-marketer for telehealth. He is the founder of Off-Label Advertising, a physician-led marketing advisory for telehealth and healthcare growth teams, and co-founder of Ascent Equity Group, a real estate investment firm for physicians that has acquired a portfolio of roughly 6,500 units and $1.2 billion in assets.
Parikh is dual board-certified in internal medicine and obesity medicine and practices as a telehealth physician and hospitalist, licensed in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. His work sits at the intersection of clinical medicine and commercial growth: helping telehealth companies build marketing that converts while staying defensible under FDA, FTC, and state advertising scrutiny.
He hosts the From MD to Entrepreneur podcast (71 episodes) and writes on healthcare marketing and physician entrepreneurship for publications including Entrepreneur and KevinMD. He has served as content strategist for the women’s telehealth company Winona and as fractional CMO for telehealth brands.
Quick facts
- Full name
- Pranay Parikh, MD
- Occupation
- Physician-marketer for telehealth; physician (internal medicine, obesity medicine); podcaster
- Known for
- Founder of Off-Label Advertising; co-founder of Ascent Equity Group; host of From MD to Entrepreneur
- Education
- Ross University School of Medicine (MD)
- Location
- Los Angeles, California, United States
Selected writing & press
- “Why doctors need to be in the marketing room” — KevinMD, July 2026
- Author page — Entrepreneur
- Why Doctors Are Bad at Marketing — white paper, Off-Label Advertising
- “From MD to Entrepreneur” — The Gold Collar Investor podcast
- “From Doctor to Real Estate over $1B” — REL Freedom podcast
Find me on
Work with me
For telehealth marketing and growth strategy: Off-Label Advertising.
Not to be confused with Pranay M. Parikh, MD, a plastic surgeon in Springfield, Massachusetts.