Eva Rawlings Parker, MD, DTMH, FAAD is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology and Core Faculty in the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, TN.

Locally, she is active in organized medicine, serving as President of both the Nashville Dermatologic Society and the Williamson County Medical Society. Dr. Parker practices general and complex medical dermatology, inpatient dermatology, and cosmetic dermatology at Vanderbilt.

Dr. Parker’s academic expertise includes the health effects secondary to climate change, global health, HIV dermatoses, tropical skin disease, and infectious disease dermatology. She is also passionate about ensuring access to quality medical care for vulnerable and marginalized populations.

Dr. Parker provides dermatologic care to people living with HIV twice monthly in Vanderbilt’s Comprehensive Care Clinic and staffs Nashville General Hospital’s dermatology clinic. She also provides volunteer dermatologic care to immigrant, refugee, and underserved populations in Nashville at Siloam Health and the Shade Tree Clinic. As well, she is a member of the volunteer medical corps of the Addis Clinic providing telehealth consultation services in Africa, has taught internationally in resource-limited settings, and is an external supervisor and mentor at the Regional Dermatology Training Centre in Moshi, Tanzania.

Dr. Parker is a member of the International League of Dermatological Societies’ (ILDS) official relations committee reporting to the World Health Organization WHO). She also serves as the Faculty Lead for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the Department of Dermatology at VUMC.

Dr. Parker graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Denver where she received her B.S. in Environmental Science which fueled her interest in how environmental degradation and climate change affect health. She then attended Medical School at the University of Colorado School of Medicine where she earned Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) honors. After an internship year at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Denver, she completed her Dermatology Residency at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL.

More recently, she has continued her global and tropical medical education with a Professional Diploma in Tropical Medical and Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in London, United Kingdom as well as a Certificate in Tropical Dermatology from the Gorgas Memorial Institute of Tropical and Preventive Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and the Alexander von Humboldt Instituto de Medicina Tropical of the Hospital Nacional Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru.

Highlights:

• President of the Nashville Dermatologic Society
• President of the Williamson County Medical Society
• Co-Chair of the American Academy of Dermatology’s Expert Resource Group on Climate Change and Environmental Issues
• External Advisor, International League of Dermatological Societies’ Official Relations World
  Health Organization Committee
• Member, Committee on Climate Change, International Society of Dermatology
• Associate Editor of the Journal of Climate Change and Health
• Member of the International Society of Dermatology’s Committee on Climate Change
• Member of the Cochrane Climate-Health Working Group
• Faculty Supervisor for the Climate Resources for Health Education initiative lead by the Global Consortium on Climate and Health Education
• Former Member of the Mayor of Nashville’s Sustainability Advisory Committee
• Former Co-Chair Mayor of Nashville’s Sustainability Advisory Committee Working Group on public engagement to achieve environmental justice
• Editorial Board Member of JMIR Dermatology
• Committee Member of the American Academy of Dermatology World Congress Fund Review Task
  Force
• Co-Chair of the American Academy of Dermatology Expert Resource Group (ERG) on Climate Change
  and Environmental Affairs
• Past Delegate, Tennessee Medical Association House of Delegates
• External Supervisor and Longitudinal Mentor, Regional Dermatology Training Centre, Moshi, Tanzania