Parker Ruhl, M.D., M.H.S.

Associate Director for Clinical Faculty Affairs

B.A., George Washington University, 2000

M.D., University of Virginia School of Medicine, 2006

M.H.S., Duke University School of Medicine, 2013

Building 1, Room 158
1 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

240-669-5776

parker.ruhl@nih.gov

Dr. Parker Ruhl serves as the Associate Director for Clinical Faculty Affairs in the Office of Intramural Research (OIR), a senior advisory role to the Deputy Director for Intramural Research (DDIR). Dr. Ruhl works to support Staff Clinicians, part of the NIH Clinical Faculty, across the arc of their careers and to broaden access to professional development opportunities. She is Chair of the Staff Clinician Professional Development Committee and the Immediate Past Chair of the NIH Staff Clinician Council.

Dr. Ruhl is an Associate Research Physician in the Physiology Unit of the Laboratory of Malaria and Vector Research (LMVR), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases with a joint appointment in the Pulmonary Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Dr. Ruhl serves as an attending on the NIH Pulmonary Consult Service and sees patients in the NIH Sickle Cell Program. In the Physiology Unit, LMVR, Dr. Ruhl leads clinical research focused on the impact of genetic variants of globin proteins, both alpha and beta globin, on vascular function in human physiology and in disease states such sickle cell disease and malaria.

Dr. Ruhl attended the University of Virginia School of Medicine and completed internal medicine training in the Osler Medical Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. She completed a combined fellowship in critical care medicine at the NIH Clinical Center and pulmonary medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and received a Master of Health Sciences from the Duke University School of Medicine.