Romain Pirracchio MD, MPH, PhD

Romain Pirracchio, MD, PhD, the inaugural Ronald D. Miller distinguished professor in Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF and the chief of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, has been appointed as an associate and statistical editor at the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Pirracchio received his medical degree from Lariboisiere Medical School, Paris Diderot University. He then completed a fellowship in critical care at Hôpital Lariboisière, where he subsequently joined the faculty. He also earned a doctoral degree in epidemiology and biostatistics at Paris Diderot University and then completed a postdoc in biostatistics at UC Berkeley.

Before he was appointed a visiting associate professor at UCSF in 2015, Pirracchio achieved the highest French academic degree in Habilitation and served as both an assistant professor in anesthesiology and critical care and as the head of Surgical and Trauma Critical Care at the Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou at Paris Descartes University.