Sallie Robey Permar is the pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center and the chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on infections affecting newborns.
Education edit
Permar graduated with a BS in biology from Davidson College in 1997. In 2004, she earned an MD from Harvard Medical School and a PhD in microbiology and immunology from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She then did a pediatrics residency and a fellowship in pediatric infectious diseases at Boston Children's Hospital.[1]
Career edit
In 2011, Permar joined the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine as an assistant professor of pediatrics. She was promoted to associate professor in 2013.[2]
Permar was the Wilburt C. Davison Distinguished Professor of pediatrics, immunology, and molecular genetics at Duke University School of Medicine, associate dean of physician-scientist development; and founding director of the Duke Medical's Children's Health and Discovery Institute. She is also a member of the Duke Global Health Institute.[3]
On December 1, 2020, Dr. Permar was appointed chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and the pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and New York-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital.[3]
Dr. Permar is an author of almost 150 scientific publications.[3]
Awards edit
- 2012 New Innovator Award, National Institutes of Health
- 2012 Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering[4] (awarded in 2013)[5]
- 2014 Young Investigator Award, Society for Pediatric Research
- 2015 Young Investigator Award, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society
- 2020 E. Mead Johnson Award from the Society for Pediatric Research[6]
- 2020 Gale and Ira Drukier Prize in Children's Health Research from Weill Cornell Medicine
She was elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation in 2016.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Sallie Robey Permar, MD, PhD | Duke Department of Pediatrics". pediatrics.duke.edu. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ a b "Sallie Robey Permar | Scholars@Duke". scholars.duke.edu. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ a b c "Dr. Sallie Permar Appointed Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and Pediatrician-in-Chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital". WCM Newsroom. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
- ^ "Creative People – Creative Ideas". National Institutes of Health. 25 June 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "President Obama Honors Outstanding Early-Career Scientists". whitehouse.gov. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ^ "Dr. Sallie Permar receives the SPR Award in honor of E. Mead Johnson". EurekAlert!. Retrieved 20 September 2020.