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Parvinderjit Singh Khanuja

Sikh doctor and art collector

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ126925105
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Parvinderjit Singh Khanuja (born 1959) is a Sikh doctor (oncologist) and art-collector. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Ironwood Physicians, PC and is a board member of the Five Rivers Foundation. He is a trustee of the Phoenix Art Museum. He is based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. His collection is featured in two books.

Biography

Khanuja was born in 1959 to parents Darshan Singh and Ajit Kaur. His father was originally from Jhelum (now in Pakistan) while his mother was a returnee-migrant from Nairobi in East Africa. His father was an ophthalmologist. Khanuja completed his medical degree at Christian Medical College in Ludhiana, India and his fellowship at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, after immigrating to the United States from India in 1983. In 1993, he moved from Detroit to Phoenix. Also in 1993, he opened an oncology practice in Chandler, Arizona which would become the Ironwood Cancer & Research Centers.

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