Dr. David Parra

Dr. David Parra is a pediatric cardiologist at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. Dr. Parra is the director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging for the Division of Pediatric Cardiology and is an expert in all forms of echocardiography and cardiovascular MRI.

Dr. Parra was raised in Ecuador where he obtained his medical degree at the Universidad Central del Ecuador, he trained in pediatrics at Miami Children’s Hospital (Nicklaus Children’s Hospital) and completed his pediatric cardiology fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Additional training in cardiac MRI was obtained at Boston Children’s Hospital. He has been faculty at Vanderbilt since 2004 and is also the director of Quality Improvement for the division of cardiology. Dr. Parra is active in many national societies including the Society of Cardiovascular MRI and the American Society of Echocardiography. Currently he is the Co-Chair of the 2021 Scientific Sessions for the American Society of Echocardiography and will be the Chair in 2022.