ASCI / Young Physician-Scientist Awards, 2020
The Young Physician-Scientist Awards (YPSA) recognize physician-scientists who are early in their first faculty appointment and have made notable achievements in their research.
About the awardee
William F. Parker MD, MS, is an instructor of pulmonary and critical care medicine and senior fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He studies the impact of organ allocation policies on patients and the behavior of transplant programs. Dr. Parker’s overall goal is to apply advanced data science methods such as deep learning to organ allocation, designing systems that efficiently and fairly allocate these scarce health care resources to the patients most in need. He was recently funded by the National Heart, Blood, and Lung Institute to develop a novel heart allocation system using machine learning (K08 HL150291).