Alittle more on Dr. John S. Parker...John S. Parker, MD
, FACS, FCCP, Major General, USA (ret)
Chief Medical Officer, Health Solutions, SAIC
Dr. John S. Parker has been with the Enterprise and Health Solutions Sector of SAIC since 2002 and leads the company’s efforts supporting the national homeland defense initiatives in the areas of chemical and biological defense, public health and biosurveillance. Dr. Parker is a member of the Homeland Security Coordinating Committee.
Dr. Parker joined SAIC after 37 years of service with the United States Army. Most recently, as Commanding General, U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command and Fort Detrick, Dr. Parker was responsible for the Army’s medical research, product development, technology assessment and rapid prototyping, medical logistics management and health facility planning, and medical information management and technology. Dr. Parker served as the Special Assistant Secretary of Defense (HA) for Medical, Chemical and Biological Defense; Deputy for Medical Systems, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Acquisition Logistics and Technology; Head of Contracting Activity; the Army’s Medical Materiel Developer; and Principal Proponent for Medical Advanced Technology in the Army.
Dr. Parker’s prior key assignments included tenure as Assistant Chief, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Chief, Thoracic Surgery, Landstuhl Army Regional Medical Center; Division Surgeon, 8th Infantry Division (MECH); Surgical Consultant, 7th MEDCOM and EUCOM; Surgical Consultant to The Surgeon General; Commander, United States Army MEDDAC, Fort Carson; Chief, Medical Corps Branch, PERSCOM; Commanding General, Fitzsimons Army Medical Center and Installation; Commanding General, Central Health Services Support Area and DOD Lead Agent for TRICARE Region 8; Assistant Surgeon General for Force Projection, Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Health Policy and Services, USAMEDCOM and Chief of the U.S. Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Parker received a doctorate in Medicine from Georgetown University of Medicine in 1974 and a bachelor’s degree in Biology, Philosophy and Journalism from Washington and Jefferson College in 1963. He is a diplomat of the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Chest Physicians, and a member of the American College of Physician Executives, the American Telemedicine Association, and the American Medical Association.
