Clinical Outcomes Research Office

Outcomes Research Christmas Party at Maggiano’s Little Italy followed by a fun game of Dirty Santa back at the office

Vice Chair of Clinical @PiccirilloJay, and Assistant Professor Dorina Kallogjeri, MD, held their annual Clinical Outcomes Research Education Retreat. There was a mix of residents, medical students, and research coordinators who attended this year’s retreat.

This study led by clinical research trainee Lauren Mueller found that in a cohort of 88 pts w/ tinnitus who underwent cognitive behavioral therapy, extreme tinnitus bother and moderate/high anxiety were associated w/reduction of tinnitus severity @JAMAOto jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

Outcomes Research at 2024 Ogura Lectureship & Research Day

Fantastic work by our predoctoral clinical research trainee and newly matched future otolaryngology resident, Dr. Patrick Ioerger!

Had the best time at my first @__COSM @AAFPRS ! Thanks to the @WUSTL_ENT team for the support of this important work studying patient reported outcomes in rhinoplasty, including @otooutcomes @PiccirilloJay & Dr. Emily Spataro ! #2024COSM

The latest study out of the Outcomes Office led by research trainee Marie-Ange Munyemana and @WUSTL_ENT rhinologist Dr. Lauren Roland developed the first ever clinical severity staging system for acute invasive fungal sinusitis @JAMAOto jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

Study led by resident Dr. Lander @WUSTL_ENT found the risk of H&N cancer associated w/ smoking increased w/ closer proximity of the H&N subsite to the lungs, w/ the greatest risk in laryngeal cancer (HR: 9.36, compared to a nonsmoker) @JAMAOto jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao…

One of the most recent studies out of the Outcomes Office was led by former TL1 Predoctoral trainee, Dr. Ashna Mahadev. We validated the minimal clinically important difference of the UPSIT and found an MCID of 4. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38055971/

#OTOJournal December highlight, “Development and Validation of the Parosmia Olfactory Dysfunction Outcomes Rating (DisODOR).” (Ioerger, et al.) @wileyhealth …-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/oh… #Parosmia #OlfactoryDysfunction #Otolaryngology

Enjoyed dinner with trainees and Dr. Vinay Prasad @VPrasadMDMPH who is visiting WashU to give Career Development Seminar “Communicating Science: How to Talk in the Modern Media World” and Oto Grand Rounds “Cancer Medicine and the Challenges in the Drug Approval Process”

Dr. Boyd Gillespie, Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at UT Memphis, met with our yearlong pre-doctoral research trainees

Research residents and predoctoral trainees gave 30-second elevator “pitches”, Sara challenged the trainees with “IRB Jeopardy”, Dr. Kallogjeri presented on “When the primary outcome is positive. Is that good enough?”, and Dr. Piccirillo presented on “The Numbers Game”

Outcomes Retreat - The Inns at St. Albans- October 25, 2023. Had a wonderful educational team retreat and social event at the beautiful Inns at St. Albans.

This study by resident Dr. Andrew Peterson @andrewpete_ , MS4 Brevin Miller, and senior author Dr. Nyssa Farrell found that the SGB was associated with improvement in subjective olfaction, odor identification, and olfactory-specific QoL in post-COVID pts …-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

This double-blinded RCT out of the Outcomes Office found no clinically meaningful effect of gabapentin for the treatment of post-COVID-19 olfactory dysfunction @JAMAOto jamanetwork.com/journals/jamao….

A recent study out of the Outcomes Office led by post-doctoral T32 scholar Dr. Theresa Tharakan prospectively estimated the incidence of taste disorders in patients undergoing trans-oral robotic surgery compared to controls @WUSTL_ENT pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37551882/

This study led by medical student Patrick Ioerger and senior author Dr. Nyssa Farrell developed and validated the new Parosmia Olfactory Dysfunction Outcomes Rating (DisODOR) PROM. The max score is 116 with an MCID of 15 …-hnsfjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…

R25 mentor mentee welcome dinner at Salt & Smoke August 23rd Dr. Jordan Varghese, Dr. Craig Buchman, Dr. Chole, Dr. Kallogjeri, Dean Adkins, Dr. Will Strober, Dr. Molly Huston, Dr. Matt Rohlfing, Jenny Ji, Lauren Mueller, and Preethi Tumati pictured here

Welcome to the new Clinical Outcomes Research Office Twitter account! Here we will highlight the publications, achievements, and camaraderie amongst our team @WUSTL_ENT