William J. Parkes, MD

Otolaryngology

Primary Office

Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware 1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803 Appointment: (800) 416-4441

Other Offices

Get to Know Me

Dr. William J. Parkes, IV, is a pediatric otolaryngologist (ear, nose and throat surgeon). His medical interests include hearing loss, cochlear implantation, chronic ear disease and cholesteatoma, tympanoplasty, endoscopic skull base surgery, thyroid and parathyroid surgery.

Education & Training

Fellowship

  • Pediatric Otolaryngology - The Hospital for Sick Children, 2016

Internship Residency

  • Otolaryngology/Head/Neck Surge - Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson, 2014

Medical/Dental School

  • MD - Jefferson Medical College, 2009

Board Certifications

  • American Board of Otolaryngology

Insurance Accepted

  • Aetna Better Health PA Kids HMO
  • Aetna HMO
  • Aetna PPO/EPO/POS
  • Aetna PPO/POS/EPO
  • Amerihealth Caritas DE - PENNSYLVANIA SPECIALISTS ONLY
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware
  • Amerihealth Caritas Delaware NJ
  • Carefirst MD Community Health Plan Mcaid
  • Cigna & Great West HMO/POS/EPO
  • Cigna & Great West PPO
  • Cigna/Great West HMO EPO POS
  • Cigna/Great West PPO
  • Delaware First Health
  • Delaware Medicaid/Diamond State
  • Devon Health Services
  • Fidelis Care NJ Medicaid HMO
  • First Health/Affordable PPO
  • Geisinger Health Plan Commercial
  • Global Medical Managment DE/PA
  • Global Medical Mangment NJ
  • Health Partners Medicaid/Kidz Partner HMO
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc Contiguous to DE*
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Delaware *PA Loc NONContiguous to DE*
  • Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield of Pennsylvania
  • Highmark Medicaid Health Options
  • Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey
  • Independance Blue Cross/Amerihealth/Keystone Health Plan
  • Insurance Administrators of America
  • INTEGRA Administrative Group (ClaimsBridge)
  • Keystone First Medicaid HMO
  • Lifetrac Transplant
  • Maryland Medicaid
  • Multiplan PPO
  • National Transplant (Humana)
  • New Jersey Medicaid
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO DE/PA
  • Olympus Managed Healthcare PPO NJ
  • Pennsylvania Medicaid
  • Plan Vista/NPPN PPO
  • Preferred Healthcare PPO
  • Private Health Care Systems (PHCS)
  • Private Healthcare Systems (PHCS)
  • Qualcare HMO/POS/PPO
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Star Healthcare Network
  • Three Rivers Provider Network
  • Tricare/Humana Military Health Services/CHAMPVA
  • United Healthcare of the Mid-Atlantic
  • UPMC MCAID/CHIP PA DE
  • UPMC Medicaid
  • US Family Health Plan
  • Wellpoint Maryland Medcaid

  • Balance Disorders
  • Congenital Neck Masses
  • Hearing Loss
  • Otitis Media

  • A 15-year Review of 260 Children With Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder: II. Management and Outcomes.; Ear and hearing; (2023).

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  • A 15-Year Review of 260 Children With Auditory Neuropathy Spectrum Disorder: I. Demographic and Diagnostic Characteristics.; Ear and hearing; (2023).

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  • Minimally invasive endoscopic approaches to pediatric skull base pathologies.; International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology; (2022).

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  • Hearing outcomes in children with Congenital Cytomegalovirus: A multi-center, single-enterprise experience.; International journal of pediatric otorhinolaryngology; (2022).

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  • MON-920 Pediatric Parathyroid Carcinoma Presenting With Acute Progressive Genu Valgum; Journal of the Endocrine Society; (2020).

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  • The endoscopic endonasal approach for pediatric craniopharyngiomas; Operative Techniques in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery; (2019).

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  • Cochlear implantation in a patient with mucopolysaccharidosis IVA.; SAGE open medical case reports; (2019).

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  • Transmastoid access in branchio-oto-renal syndrome: A reappraisal of computed tomography imaging; International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology; (2018).

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  • Natural history of tympanic membrane retraction in children with cleft palate; Journal of International Advanced Otology; (2018).

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  • Monopoly Airplane Lands in Esophagus Leading to Difficult Extraction: A Case Report on Anesthesia and Surgical Considerations; A & A case reports; (2017).

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  • Vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing as an objective measure of vestibular stimulation with cochlear implants; Laryngoscope; (2017).

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  • Preliminary experience using a cochlear implant with a novel linear pedestal design; International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology; (2017).

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  • Assessment of mastoid function with magnetic resonance imaging after canal wall up cholesteatoma surgery; Journal of International Advanced Otology; (2016).

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  • Advances in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of neonates with laryngeal disorders; Seminars in Fetal and Neonatal Medicine; (2016).

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  • Stimulation from cochlear implant electrodes assists with recovery from asymmetric perceptual tilt: Evidence from the subjective visual vertical test; Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience; (2016).

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  • Application of 3-dimensional modeling to plan totally endoscopic per-meatal drainage of petrous apex cholesterol granuloma; Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (United States); (2015).

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  • Incidence and management of rhinosinusitis after complex orbitofacial reconstruction; Laryngoscope; (2014).

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  • Resource analysis of tonsillectomy in children; Laryngoscope; (2014).

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  • A preliminary report of percutaneous craniofacial osteoplasty in a rat calvarium; Laryngoscope; (2014).

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  • Microvascular free flap reconstruction of orbitocraniofacial defects; Orbit; (2013).

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  • Development of a test to evaluate olfactory function in a pediatric population; Laryngoscope; (2011).

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  • Use of the anterolateral thigh in cranio-orbitofacial reconstruction.; Plastic surgery international; (2011).

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  • The use of a covered stent in carotid blowout syndrome; Ear, Nose and Throat Journal; (2011).

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