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Dr. Keith Langston Parker

Keith Langston Parker, MD, PhD, passed away in December 2008. He was the Wilson Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Research at the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and served as Professor of Internal Medicine and Pharmacology, and as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. Internationally recognized for his work in the areas of endocrinology and metabolism, Dr. Parker was honored by the Endocrine Society as the recipient of its Ernst Oppenheimer award in 1996. He was awarded the Transatlantic Medal by the British Endocrine Society in 2004 and the University Seal of the University of Bologna in 2006. He was elected to membership in the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 1991, and the Association of American Physicians in 1997. Dr. Parker served as an editor of the leading textbook of pharmacology, Goodman and Gilman’s Pharmacologic Basis of Therapeutics. A graduate of Williams College, Dr. Parker was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He obtained MD and PhD degrees at Washington University in St. Louis, and trained in internal medicine at the UT Southwestern Medical Center. He studied molecular genetics at Harvard University before joining the faculty of the Department of Medicine at Duke University in 1986, where he was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. In 1997 he returned to UT Southwestern as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism.