Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics
Eastern Virginia Medical School / Children's Hospital of King's Daughters
Norfolk, VA, United States
Dr. David Darrow is a Professor of Otolaryngology and Pediatrics at the Eastern Virginia Medical School and an attending otolaryngologist at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters in Norfolk, VA. After receiving degrees in both dentistry and medicine, Dr. Darrow completed residency in otolaryngology at the University of California, San Diego and a fellowship in pediatric otolaryngology at the Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Dr. Darrow’s primary clinical and research interests are in the areas of otitis media, tonsillitis, and vascular birthmarks. He is the founder and co-director of the EVMS Center for Hemangiomas and Vascular Birthmarks, a multidisciplinary treatment program for patients with these disorders. He has special interests in the grading and staging of infantile hemangiomas, and in the orodental manifestations of facial port wine stains. His funded investigations have examined cochlear effects of bacterial endotoxin and bacterial activity in middle ear effusions. He has lectured locally and nationally on proper diagnosis and management of middle ear disease in children. He has also written extensively on indications for tonsil and adenoid surgery. He has served on panels that developed clinical practice guidelines for pediatric tonsillectomy, pediatric acute sinusitis, and infantile hemangiomas and a consensus statement on ankyloglossia.
Dr. Darrow is a past president of the Society for Ear, Nose, and Throat Advances in Children and a former Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Otolaryngology. He has also served on the executive committee of the American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology. A native of New York City, Dr. Darrow now resides in Virginia Beach, VA. He is married, with a son and two daughters.
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