Kalliope Tsirilakis, M.D.

Dr. Perdita Permaul is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an assistant attending pediatrician at New York-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. Having grown up in Queens, NY, she finds it very rewarding to also serve as the Director of the Pediatric Allergy/Immunology Program housed within the Pediatric Asthma Center at New York-Presbyterian Queens where she also leads asthma/allergy clinical researchacross NYP campuses.After receiving her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Permaul returned to New York City where she completed her medical degree at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and her pediatric residency at New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. She then moved to Boston and continued her training at Boston Childrens Hospital, where she completed a fellowship in Allergy/Immunology. During her three-year fellowship, she also served as a research fellow in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital. Upon completing fellowship, Dr. Permaul continued on as a pediatric allergist/immunologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School until her return to Weill Cornell Medicine. She is board-certified in Allergy/Immunology and Pediatrics.In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Permaul is active in clinical/translational asthma research and is a member of the Drukier Research Institute for Children's Health at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Permaul has been named theCaryl and Israel A. Englander Clinical Scholar in Childrens Health.She has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the interaction between childhood obesity, the environment and asthma. She is the author of a number of scientific papers, reviews and book chapters and has presented her research at regional, national and international meetings. Dr. Permaul also participates in NIH funded multi-center asthma clinical trials. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology (AAAAI) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).

Dr. Kalliope Tsirilakis is the Director of Pediatric Pulmonology and the Pediatric Asthma Center at NewYork-Presbyterian Queens. She is also an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and an assistant attending pediatrician at New York-Presbyterian Komansky Children's Hospital. A lifelong New Yorker, born in Brooklyn and raised in Westchester, she graduated from Weill-Cornell Medical College and completed her residency in Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Tsirilakis continued her training at the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in the Bronx, where she completed a Fellowship in Pediatric Respiratory Medicine. She is Board Certified in Pediatrics and Pediatric Pulmonology. Her expertise includes the full spectrum of pediatric pulmonary conditions, with special expertise in Severe Asthma, Patient Education, Quality Improvement, Flexible Bronchoscopy, and Aerodigestive disorders. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Tsirilakis is involved in research and education. She has several research interests spanning Quality Improvement Initiatives, Asthma Education Programs, Health Care Disparities, Telehealth programs, and Pathophysiologic and Inflammatory Mechanisms of Asthma. Dr. Tsirilakis is also active in community engagement, working closely with St. Mary’s Home Care Program and the NYP Queens Community Health Worker Program . She is Chairperson of the American Lung Association’s Asthma Coalition of New York City, and serves as faculty in their Asthma Educator Institute. She is also lead faculty advisor on the New York State Department of Health’s BREATHE-NY asthma education program. She is fluent in Modern Greek and conversational in Spanish.

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