Perdita Permaul, MD

Dr. Perdita Permaul is a clinical investigator, pediatric allergist and immunologist and an associate professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine.  She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, her medical degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and completed her pediatric residency at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center.  She then moved to Boston and continued her training at Boston Children’s Hospital, where she completed a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology.  Upon completing fellowship, Dr. Permaul continued on as a pediatric allergist and immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School until her return to Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Permaul has authored a number of scientific papers, reviews and book chapters on original research showing how indoor allergen exposures affect asthma outcomes in urban children with asthma, both in the school and home environments.  Her current clinical/translational asthma research has been supported by grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the interactions between childhood obesity, the environment, and asthma morbidity in an established cohort of inner-city children with asthma.  Ongoing work has focused on studying how obesity related systemic inflammation contributes to the development of severe asthma in children through profiling of cytokines and other inflammatory and immune mediators. She currently serves as the Weill Cornell Medicine site Principal Investigator for the NIH funded Pandemic Response Repository – Microbial and Immune Surveillance and Epidemiology (PREMISE): Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) Pilot Study.  The overall objective of this study is to become pandemic ready by demonstrating utility of immunologic surveillance for future emerging pathogens using the emerging pathogen, EV-D68, as the prototype.