James Perrin, MD

James M. Perrin, MD, is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and former director of the Division of General Pediatrics at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children.  He holds the John C. Robinson Distinguished Chair in Pediatrics at the MGH.  He was president (2014) of the American Academy of Pediatrics, chair of its Committee on Children with Disabilities, and past president of the Ambulatory (Academic) Pediatric Association.  He directed the Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health for seven years.  Dr. Perrin was founding editor of Academic Pediatrics.  His research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalizations, health insurance, and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with recent emphases on epidemiology of childhood chronic illness and organization of services for the care of children and adolescents with chronic health conditions.  He received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research and also served as a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  He is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine.  He has been on several national commissions and committees relating to children and youth with special health care needs and their families, including current service on the National Academy of Sciences Board on Children, Youth, and Families.  A graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, he had residency and fellowship training at the University of Rochester and held faculty appointments at Rochester and Vanderbilt.