Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., Ph.D., M.S.H.A., MACP, FACMI, will address M.D. graduates at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences (SMHS) M.D. Diploma Ceremony May 15.
As president for clinical services and chief medical officer of Nashville, Tennessee–based Hospital Corporation of America (HCA), Perlin leads the clinical services at HCA’s 167 hospitals and more than 800 outpatient surgical, urgent care, and other practice units. Prior to joining HCA, Perlin served as the under secretary for health in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He was the most senior physician in the federal government and chief executive officer of the Veterans Health Administration.
Perlin’s father, Seymour Perlin, M.D., Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and director of GW’s psychiatry residency training program at SMHS from 1977 to 1993, is the namesake of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences’ annual Seymour Perlin, M.D., Lectureship on Suicidology and Life-Threatening Illnesses. Perlin’s mother, Ruth, is a member of the George Washington University Museum board and the Textile Museum board, and both Seymour and Ruth are on the Friends of the Luther W. Brady Art Gallery board.
