James M. Perrin, M.D.

Dr. Perrin is professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Division of General Pediatrics and the Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children, a research and training center with an active fellowship program in general pediatrics. He chaired the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Children with Disabilities and is past president of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. For the American Academy of Pediatrics, he also co-chaired a committee to develop practice guidelines for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and he chairs a group advising the AAP on the implementation of the guidelines. His research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization, health insurance, and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with a recent emphasis on quality of life and use of primary and subspecialty care for children and adolescents with chronic illness. Dr. Perrin is the founding editor of Ambulatory Pediatrics, the journal of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association. He served on the Institute of Medicine’s Committees on Maternal and Child Health under Health Care Reform, Quality of Long-Term-Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, and Enhancing Federal Healthcare Quality Programs; the National Commission on Childhood Disability, and the Disability Policy Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Chair, Children’s Committee). He received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research. He also served as a member of the Health Care Technology study section of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.