Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
MedEncentive
Gender Male
David Parke, a founding member of MedEncentive, is executive vice president and CEO of the American Academy of Opthalmology, the world’s largest ophthalmology organization, with 30,000 members and offices in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.
Prior to assuming this role, Dr. Parke served for 17 years as president and CEO of the Dean McGee Eye
Institute and Edward L. Gaylord professor and chair of the department of ophthalmology in the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. The McGee Eye Institute has more than 300 faculty and staff and consistently ranks among the top institutions nationally in terms of NIH vision research grant support.
A practicing ophthalmologist with subspecialty focus in retina/vitreous, Dr. Parke served as president of the Academy in 2008. He is a fellow of the Academy and received its Honor Award in 1989, its Senior Achievement Award in 1998 and its Life Achievement Honor Award in 2009.
A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Stanford University and an AOA graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine, Dr. Parke completed residency training at Baylor College of Medicine, serving as chief resident. He then completed two years of fellowship training in diseases and surgery of the retina and vitreous. His professional and scholarly activities have focused on that subspecialty and on medical education and biomedical organizational leadership and development.
Dr. Parke’s other past medical leadership positions have included serving as president of the Association of University Professors of Ophthalmology and director of the American Board of Ophthalmology.
