James M. Perrin, M.D., 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 Massachusetts General 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, Dr. Perrin also co-chaired a committee to develop a practice guideline for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

A graduate of Harvard College and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, he had his training in pediatrics at the University of Rochester and has been on the pediatric faculties of the University of Rochester and Vanderbilt University, with an additional appointment at the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the latter institution. He has mentored fellows both at Vanderbilt and at the Massachusetts General Hospital. His research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization, and childhood chronic illness and disabilities, with a recent emphasis on studies of the Supplemental Security Income Program for children and adolescents and patterns of care for children 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 and on Quality of Long-Term-Care Services in Home and Community-Based Settings, the National Commission on Childhood Disability, and the Disability Policy Panel of the National Academy of Social Insurance (Chair, Children’s Committee). He served as a member of the Health Care Technology study section of the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research and is currently a member of the National Advisory Council for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. He recently served on the IOM Committee on Quality in Long Term Care and is currently a member of the IOM Committee for the Evaluation of Selected Federal Health Care Quality Activities. He co-chairs the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Advisory Committee.