William A. Parker, M.D.
William A. Parker, M.D. was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona and attended
the University of Arizona earning both a Regents Academic Scholarship
and a General Academic Scholarship. Dr. Parker completed a rigorous curriculum
of his own design and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology
with a minor in Chemistry in just three years. He attended New York Medical
College after accepting one of fourteen Trustee’s Scholarships.
During medical school, Dr. Parker earned Clinical Honors in Diagnostic
Radiology, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Psychiatry. Dr. Parker
completed his residency in Diagnostic Radiology at the University of Southern
California Medical Center in Los Angeles. During his residency, Dr. Parker
was selected to participate in the RSNA Annual Meeting Introduction to
Research Program. After his residency, he completed a year of fellowship
in Vascular and Interventional Radiology at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical
Center in New York City. During his fellowship, he was appointed a Clinical
Fellow and also served as an Assistant Attending in Diagnostic Radiology.
Dr. Parker is certified by the American Board of Radiology
in Diagnostic Radiology and has been awarded a Certificate
of Added Qualification in Vascular and Interventional
Radiology. Dr. Parker is a member of the Radiological
Society of North America and the Society of Interventional
Radiology. Dr. Parker also serves on the membership committee
for the Society of Interventional Radiology.
Dr. Parker joined Princeton Radiology Associates in July
2000. Dr. Parker has established the aortic aneurysm endograft program
at the University Medical Center at Princeton in conjunction with a vascular
surgeon and together they have performed over 40 stent-graft procedures.
Dr. Parker remains on the cutting edge of Interventional Radiology, having
been one of the first Interventionalists in the area to perform cryoplasty
and cutting balloon angioplasty. Dr. Parker has expertise in many complex
Interventional procedures ranging from chemoembolization to transjugular
intrahepatic portosystem shunt creation. Dr. Parker has presented at the
Grand Rounds at the University Medical Center at Princeton in addition
to groups at the local, state, and national level.