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Professor and Vice Chair for ResearchProfessor and Vice
Washington University School of Medicine
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine@
Dr. Piccirillo is a Professor (Investigator Track) of Otolaryngology, Medicine, Biostatistics, and Occupational Therapy at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine and Vice Chair for Research and Director of the Clinical Outcomes Research Office for the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck.
He is a general otolaryngologist and the otolaryngology consultant to the Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT) Center and the Multidisciplinary Sleep Medicine clinic at Washington University School of Medicine. He is the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and on the JAMA Editorial Board. He is Director of the NIDCD-supported T32 Physician Scholars Training Program and the National Center for Advancing Therapeutic Sciences-supported TL1 Predoctoral Interdisciplinary Clinical Research Training Program; course master for the first- and second-year medical student course entitled, Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine. For his teaching, he received the Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical Student Education, the highest teaching award at Washington University.
He has served as PI on multiple NIH- and specialty society-sponsored research projects. He developed the SNOT instruments to measure the physical problems and functional limitations of rhinosinusitis. The SNOT-22 has been in use for more than 25 years, is the most widely used patient-reported outcome measure in sinusitis, and is available in more than 73 different languages and dialects. Currently, his research focuses on identifying treatments for COVID-associated anosmia and parosmia, the use of ecological momentary assessment to identify drivers of tinnitus, and treatments for HHT-associated epistaxis.