Research Symposium

Thank you to our planning committee for organizing this event!

For questions, please contact:
Rae Johnson
Administrative Assistant III
srjohnson35@wisc.edu

Jay Piccirillo, MD, FACS, CPI – Editor JAMA OTO
Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Washington University
“Lies, Damn Lies, and Clinical Research”
Introduced by David Francis

Bio: Dr. Piccirillo is a Professor of Otolaryngology, Medicine, Biostatistics, and Occupational Therapy at Washington University School of Medicine. He serves as Vice Chair for Research and Director of the Clinical Outcomes Research Office in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck. He completed medical school at the University of Vermont and residency at Albany Medical Center, followed by a Clinical Scholars Fellowship at Yale. He has been part of Washington University since 1992.

Dr. Piccirillo is a general otolaryngologist and a consultant for the Washington University HHT Center of Excellence and the Multidisciplinary Sleep Medicine Clinic. He is the Editor-in-Chief of JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery and serves on the JAMA Editorial Board. He also participates in the Advisory Council of NIDCD.

He directs the NIDCD-supported R25 Mentored Research Pathway Program and the NCATS-supported TL1 Clinical and Translational Research Training Program. He also leads the Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine course for medical students and has honored with the Samuel R. Goldstein Leadership Award in Medical Student Education.

As Principal Investigator, Dr. Piccirillo has led multiple NIH and specialty society research projects, developing and validating outcome measures such as the SNOT, SNORE, and NOSE-HHT instruments. His research now concentrates on treatments for tinnitus, sleep apnea, COVID-related anosmia, and HHT-associated epistaxis.

Clint Allen, MD
Senior Investigator, Surgical Oncology Program, NCI/NIH
“Development and regulatory approval of Zopapogene Imadenovec for adults with RRP”
Introduced by Ruth Davis

Bio: Dr. Allen graduated from the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and is an alumnus of the Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) at the NIH Clinical Center. After medical school, he received otolaryngology surgical training at Washington University in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital and sub-specialty fellowship training in laryngological surgery at the University of Washington. While maintaining a laryngology practice and faculty position at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Allen’s initial appointment to the NIH was through the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) Otolaryngology Surgeon Scientist Program. After five years of joint Johns Hopkins and NIH faculty appointments, Dr. Allen transitioned to a full-time NIH position within the NIDCD where, in 2020, he was tenured and named Chief of the Section on Translational Tumor Immunology. After serving as Acting Head and Neck Surgery Branch Chief and NIDCD Acting Clinical Director for a period, he transitioned to the Head and Neck Section of the Surgical Oncology Program at CCR. Dr. Allen has received numerous specialty society awards and has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications.