Dr. Pillion received his B.A. degree from Western Michigan University and his M.A. and Ph.D degrees from The Ohio State University. Dr. Pillion was a research associate at The Ohio State University from 1979-1981. He completed a Post-doctoral fellowship in audiology at Kennedy Krieger from 1982-1984. He continued his career working as a clinical audiologist at the Southside Virginia Training Center for two years. He returned to the Kennedy Krieger Institute in 1987 and has worked as an audiologist since that time. He became Clinical Manager of audiology in 1996 and the Director of Audiology in 1997. He has served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine since 2001. Dr. Pillion is a member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association and the American Academy of Audiology.

Dr. Pillion’s research interests include measurements of auditory evoked potentials, otoacoustic emissions and speech perception in individuals with normal and abnormal hearing as well as in individuals with neurological dysfunction.

Schmitz, J. Pillion, J.P. , LeClerq, S.C., Khatry, S.K., Lee S-F Wu, Prasad, R., Karna, S.L., Shrestha, S.R., and West, K.P. (2010). Prevalence of hearing loss and ear morbidity among adolescents and young adults in rural southern Nepal. International Journal of Audiology. 49, (5), 388-394.

Pillion, J.P., Bibat, G., and Naidu, S. (2010). Effects of sedation on auditory brainstem in Rett syndrome. Pediatric Neurology. 42, (5), 331-334.

DiPietro, J.A., Kivlighan, K.T., Costigan, K.A., Rubin, S., Shiffler, D.E., Henderson, J., and Pillion, J.P. (2010). Prenatal antecedents of newborn neurological maturation. Child Development. 81, (1), 115-130.

Pillion, J.P. and Shapiro, J. (2008). Audiological findings in osteogenesis imperfecta. Journal of the American Academy of Audiology, Sep;19(8):595-601.

Pillion, J.P., Moser, H.W., and Raymond, G.V. (2008). Audiological findings in adrenomyleoneuropathy. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 269, (1-2), 24-29.

Wasserman, E.E., Nelson, K., Rose, N.R., Eaton, W., Pillion, J.P., Seaberg, E., Talor, M.V., Burek, L., Duggan, A., and Yolken, R.H. (2008). Maternal thyroid autoantibodies during the third trimester and hearing deficits in children: An epidemiologic assessment. American Journal of Epidemiology, 167, (6), 701-710.

Joseph P. Pillion, Ph.D.

Director of Audiology
Kennedy Krieger Institute
801 North Broadway
Baltimore, MD 21205
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Phone: (443) 923-3220
Fax: (443) 923-3224
pillion@kennedykrieger.org

Assistant Professor of Physical
Medicine and Rehabilitation
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine


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