Vira I. Heinz Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Dr. Terence S. Dermody is the Vira I. Heinz Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief and Scientific Director at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Dr. Dermody received his B.S. degree from Cornell University and his M.D. degree from Columbia University. He completed an internal medicine residency at Presbyterian Hospital in New York and fellowships in infectious diseases and molecular virology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh in 2016, Dr. Dermody was Dorothy Overall Wells Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program and Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.
Dr. Dermody is a virologist with interests in viral pathogenesis and vaccine development. Most of his research has focused on reovirus, an important experimental model for studies of viral encephalitis in the young, and chikungunya virus, an emerging mosquito-borne virus that causes epidemics of fever and arthritis. His research contributions have enhanced an understanding of how these viruses enter into host cells and cause organ-specific disease. He has published more than 250 articles, reviews, chapters, and editorials and has been recognized for his research accomplishments by the Vanderbilt Ernest W. Goodpasture Faculty Research Award, an NIH MERIT Award, and the American Society for Microbiology D. C. White Research and Mentoring Award.