BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Current Position:
The Lindberg Professor and Head of Otolaryngology
Joint Appointment, Program in Audiology and Communication Sciences
Education:
B.S., University of California at Berkely
M.D., University of Southern California, 1969
Ph.D., Medical Sciences, University of Minnesota, 1977
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Curriculum Vitae: 
Cellular and molecular biology of bone remodeling in cholesteatoma (click for more information)
PUBLICATIONS:
1. 2006 Jacob A, Chole RA. Survey Anatomy of the Prarnasal Sinuses in the Normal Mouse, The Laryngoscope, 116:4; 558-563, April.
2. 2006 Kim HJ, Park IS, Lee HB, Lee JS, Chole RA. Functional and Morphologic Inner Ear Changes in Guinea Pigs Caused by Administration of Various Bisphosphonates to the Round Window. Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, 3 (2): 137-141, July.
3. 2006 Grandis JR, Battey JF, et al. Research Education and Training in Otolaryngoloyg: Meeting Summary and Research Opportunities. Oto-Head Neck Surgery, 135, 361-367.
4. 2007 Piccirillo JF, Finnell J, Vlahiotis A, Chole RA, Spitznagel E. Relief of Idiopathic Subjective Tinnitus: Is Gabapentin Effective?, Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surgery, 113(4): 390-397, April.
5. 2007 Zhuang L, Jung JY, Wang EW, Houlihan P, Ramos L, Pashia M, Chole RA. Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lipopolysaccharide Induces Osteoclazstogenesis Through a Toll-Like Receptor 4 Mediated Pathway in Vitro and in Vivo, Laryngoscope, 117:841-847, May.
CONTACT INFORMATION
Richard A. Chole, M.D., Ph.D.
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Ave.
Campus Box 8115
St. Louis, MO 63110
http://oto.wustl.edu/chole/
Phone: (314) 362-7395
Fax: (314) 747-1004
Email address: choler@ent.wustl.edu