Parker Hays MD
Many of us are capable of high performance. Few can do it sustainably.
An award-winning emergency physician leader with 33 years of experience shows how you can.
Dr. Parker Hays is an award-winning emergency physician, top 0.1% TEDx speaker, professor, and leadership consultant. After 33 years practicing in urban emergency departments, mentoring and teaching residents and medical students, he co-founded Lasting Impact Wellness Group. A true thought leader in high pressure performance and decision making, values based leadership, and the science of longevity, he now trains leaders in all industries to achieve Professional Durability™, empowering them to perform at a high level for the long haul.
Dr. Hays graduated in Zoology/Biology from DePauw University and received his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, a top national program.
After residency, he stayed on at Carolinas, serving in academic leadership roles for 20 years while working thousands of hours seeing patients in an urban Level One trauma center. He recruited, trained and mentored hundreds of medical residents, served on countless hospital and education committees, and taught and lectured around the country and the world. He won a national championship in a diagnostic competition and the outstanding teaching award at his program, and rose to the rank of full Professor of EM at the UNC School of Medicine. In the years hence, he has served as a Chair and Medical Director while working as an attending physician in community emergency departments. In 2023, he was named the Outstanding Emergency Physician at his medical center and the award was named after him going forward.
While the base of his career has been around Charlotte, he has worked for months at a time on six continents in a variety of robust and austere conditions. He has practiced medicine at the highest levels for over 30 years.
Together with his emergency physician wife, Dr. Laura Hays, Dr. Hays founded Lasting Impact Wellness Group, a coaching and consulting group for leaders of all types. They also produced the Lasting Impact Wellness podcast, which was ranked in the top 25% of the Health and Wellness category on Apple. He delivered a TEDx talk that garnered over half a million views in its first year, placing it in the top 0.1% of TEDx talks ever.
Versatility can be a specialty, and Dr. Hays has embodied this philosophy. He sang the lead in the Illinois Opera Theater at age 11, chased a state championship on the football field, and was an Eagle Scout. He has backpacked alone across the USA, Europe, and parts of South America. He restores vintage cars from the ground up. He fronted a rock band for 19 years, has spent the night in every state but three, and has busked for minimum wage in Chicago and Prague.
Most proudly, he has been raised by four fantastic children.
Although an emergency physician and leader by training, Dr. Hays has special interest in coaching, leadership mentoring, and functional fitness, as well as expertise in effective speaking, communication, and evidence-based aging and longevity medicine.
Dr. Parker Hays is an award-winning emergency physician, top 0.1% TEDx speaker, professor, and leadership consultant. After 33 years practicing in urban emergency departments, mentoring and teaching residents and medical students, he co-founded Lasting Impact Wellness Group. A true thought leader in high pressure performance and decision making, values based leadership, and the science of longevity, he now trains leaders in all industries to achieve Professional Durability™, empowering them to perform at a high level for the long haul.
Dr. Hays graduated in Zoology/Biology from DePauw University and received his MD from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. He completed his residency in Emergency Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, a top national program.
After residency, he stayed on at Carolinas, serving in academic leadership roles for 20 years while working thousands of hours seeing patients in an urban Level One trauma center. He recruited, trained and mentored hundreds of medical residents, served on countless hospital and education committees, and taught and lectured around the country and the world. He won a national championship in a diagnostic competition and the outstanding teaching award at his program, and rose to the rank of full Professor of EM at the UNC School of Medicine. In the years hence, he has served as a Chair and Medical Director while working as an attending physician in community emergency departments. In 2023, he was named the Outstanding Emergency Physician at his medical center and the award was named after him going forward.
While the base of his career has been around Charlotte, he has worked for months at a time on six continents in a variety of robust and austere conditions. He has practiced medicine at the highest levels for over 30 years.
Together with his emergency physician wife, Dr. Laura Hays, Dr. Hays founded Lasting Impact Wellness Group, a coaching and consulting group for leaders of all types. They also produced the Lasting Impact Wellness podcast, which was ranked in the top 25% of the Health and Wellness category on Apple. He delivered a TEDx talk that garnered over half a million views in its first year, placing it in the top 0.1% of TEDx talks ever.
Versatility can be a specialty, and Dr. Hays has embodied this philosophy. He sang the lead in the Illinois Opera Theater at age 11, chased a state championship on the football field, and was an Eagle Scout. He has backpacked alone across the USA, Europe, and parts of South America. He restores vintage cars from the ground up. He fronted a rock band for 19 years, has spent the night in every state but three, and has busked for minimum wage in Chicago and Prague.
Most proudly, he has been raised by four fantastic children.
Although an emergency physician and leader by training, Dr. Hays has special interest in coaching, leadership mentoring, and functional fitness, as well as expertise in effective speaking, communication, and evidence-based aging and longevity medicine.
Can't Keep Going Like This? Professional Durability For High Performers
Format: 60 min keynote
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