Child Health Research Institute Director

Ann Anderson Berry, MD, PhD, is executive director of the Child Health Research Institute, an innovative partnership dedicated to pediatric research between the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Children's Nebraska.

At UNMC, she also serves as vice chair of research in the Department of Pediatrics and as chief of its Division of Neonatology, where she also is a professor. She holds the Dr. John and Patti Sparks Chair of Pediatric Research. She also directs the Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship Program.

At Children's Nebraska, Dr. Anderson Berry serves as vice president of research and as its institutional coordinator for the Great Plains IDeA-CTR.

She is medical director of the Nebraska Perinatal Quality Improvement Collaborative.

At Nebraska Medicine, she is medical director of the newborn intensive care units and newborn nurseries at its primary hospital and the Bellevue Medical Center. 

Dr. Anderson Berry’s research activities include funded federal and state research grants evaluating perinatal nutrition and the impact on maternal and fetal outcomes. She leads studies on the consequences of poor nutrition and social stressors on neurodevelopment and long-term health in infants with intrauterine opioid exposure and on neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome and the impact of intrauterine opioid exposure on brain development.

Dr. Anderson Berry is a constant advocate for Nebraska families and understands the importance of recognizing rural and urban needs when allocating perinatal resources. As a mentor to students at the undergraduate, medical school, residency and graduate levels, she works to prepare trainees to do impactful and outstanding work in their chosen fields.

A graduate of Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine, Dr. Anderson Berry serves on national committees for the American Society of Nutrition, the Pediatric Academic Society, and Women in Neonatology.

She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wyoming, her medical degree at Creighton University, a pediatric residency and PhD at UNMC, and a fellowship in neonatology at the University of Utah. She loves spending time with her husband and two daughters in the mountains of Wyoming.