Voted one of New York Magazine's Best Doctors, 2008
Dr. Perlman is a Professor of Pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the University of Cape Town (1974). He received his pediatric residency and fellowship training at St. Louis Children's Hospital affiliated with Washington University.
His research training and subsequent research has been related to the mechanisms contributing to neonatal neurological injury including hemorrahagic ischemic cerebral injury in the preterm infant and hypoxic ischemic injury in the term infant.
He was medical director of the neonatal intenisive care unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital for six years and assumed the same role at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas for 14 years. He is co-chairman of the neonatal resusciation program (NRP), a member of the Pediatric Subcommittee of the American Heart Association and currently serves on two NIH committees.
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