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.
MB.Ch.B., University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa 1969-1974
Intern OB/Gyn, Groote Schuur Hospital
Cape Town, South Africa, January 1975-June 1975
Intern Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital
Cape Town, South Africa, July 1975-December 1975
Senior Intern OB/Gyn Groote Schuur Hospital
Cape Town, South Africa, January 1976- June 1976
Intern in Pediatrics, Baragwanath Hospital
Johannesburg, SA, July 1977-June 1978
Pediatric Resident, Childrens Hospital
Johannesburg, SA, July 1978-June 1979
Pediatric Resident, Childrens Hospital
St Louis, Mo, July 1980 June 1981
Chief Resident, Childrens Hospital
St Louis, Mo, July 1980 June 1981
Neonatology Fellow, Childrens Hospital
St Louis, Mo, July 1981 June 1983
