Overview
Dr. Perrin is the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care in the Department of Pediatrics and the Schools of Medicine and Nursing. She has a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship Program-trained clinician investigator whose area of research expertise is patient-oriented preventive care, health services research, health disparities, and the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity. She has also developed, disseminated, and studied many tools to help pediatricians in practice prevent and treat obesity including the color-coded BMI charts that many use in outpatient practice. She has been the lead on numerous grants (including a multi-site randomized controlled trial NIH R01 and its renewal) on obesity and children’s health. She was previously faculty at UNC (where she won the Hettleman award, the highest award for university scholarship) and Duke. She has held previous roles as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Division Chief of Primary Care Pediatrics, founding Director of the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, and a fellowship director of the National Clinicians Scholars Program at Duke University. She previously served as the national chair for the Academic Pediatrics Association Research Committee.
Dr. Perrin is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her top areas of expertise are Obesity in Children, Premature Infant, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Hypertension.
Her clinical research consists of co-authoring 164 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, she has co-authored 4 articles in the study of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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Locations
Baltimore, MD 21287
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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Kennedy Krieger Institute
Medical School: Madras Medical College, University of Madras, Chennai ,INDIA Residency: 1. Pediatrics- Cook County Hospital, Chicago IL. 2.Neurodevelopmental Disabilities- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,MD. Current Position: Instructor, Department of Neurology , Johns Hopkins Hospital. Assistant Medical Director, Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD 21211. Dr. Menon is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorder. Her top areas of expertise are Autism Spectrum Disorder, Delayed Growth, Early Infantile Epileptic Encephalopathy, and Microcephaly Deafness Syndrome.
Areas of Expertise
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- Elite
- Obesity in ChildrenDr. Perrin isElite. Learn about Obesity in Children.
- Experienced
- Autism Spectrum DisorderDr. Perrin isExperienced. Learn about Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- HypertensionDr. Perrin isExperienced. Learn about Hypertension.
- Premature InfantDr. Perrin isExperienced. Learn about Premature Infant.