Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology
University of Iowa
Dr. Bermick is an Associate Professor and Neonatologist at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital. She is a neonatal immunologist whose basic science laboratory studies how the neonatal immune system develops under normal and inflammatory conditions. This includes the study of fetal and neonatal immune responses during chorioamnionitis and neonatal sepsis, with the goal of identifying therapies that can mitigate the morbidities and mortality associated with these early life inflammatory conditions. The Bermick laboratory also has a long-standing interest in how the intestinal microbiome and the use of probiotics impacts health and disease in preterm infants.