Shawn P. Parker

Shawn Parker is a member of the firm’s Health Care team within the Regulatory group, where he advises clients on health care policy, legislative advocacy, executive strategy, and regulatory guidance concerning business planning of organized medicine.  Shawn has 15 years of experience working in both government and private sectors and serves a number of state and national non-profit companies and their boards as a de facto General Counsel. He regularly provides strategic general counsel services to nonprofits, associations, including governance matters, participating in board meetings, reviewing and modifying bylaws and assisting with board and committee structure.Helping shape the future of medical regulation, Shawn serves as a director-at-large on the Federation of State Medical Boards' Board of Directors and is a North Carolina Medical Board Public Member

From 2004 to 2012 he worked with the North Carolina General Assembly as a senior staff attorney. Shawn has extensive experience in public policy development and analysis, the legislative process and legislative drafting.

• Federation of State Medical Boards (2018-2022)
  • Director at Large (2018-19, 2019-2022)
  • Governance Committee (2018-2019, 2019-2020, Chair 2020-2021)
  • Executive Committee (2021-2022)
  • Workgroup on Telehealth (Chair 2021-2022)
  • Planning Committee (2020-2021)
  • Education Committee (2017-2018)
  • Workgroup on Physician Impairment (2019-2021)
• North Carolina Medical Board (2016-2022) 
  • Board Parliamentarian
  • Policy Committee (Chair 2017-18, 2018-19, Chair 2019-20)
  • Disciplinary Committee (2018-19, 2019-2020, Chair 2020-2021)
  • Diversity Committee (2017-2018)
  • Outreach Committee (Chair 2018-19, 2020-2021)
  • Advanced Practice Providers and Allied Health Committee (2018-2019)
  • Nurse Practitioner Joint Subcommittee and Midwifery Joint Committee
  • North Carolina DHHS Naturopathic Work Group (NCMB representative)

• Uniform Law Commission- Telehealth Study Committee-participant

• Wake County Bar Association

  • Bylaws Committee
  • 10th Judicial District, Bar Candidate Interview Committee

• North Carolina Bar Association
  • Health Law Section
  • Co-Chair, Legislative/Ethics Committee (2017)
  • Member, Internet and Regulations Task Force (2017) 
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Co-Editor, North Carolina Bar Association Health Law Section publication Prognosis
• Council Member, Highland United Methodist Church Governance Board

• Best Lawyers®, "Ones to Watch," Health Care Law (2021-2022), Government Relations Practice (2022)
• North Carolina Super Lawyers, Rising Stars (2018-2020)