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.Bradley
A. Perkins, MD, MBA
Chief
Office of Strategy and Innovation |
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Dr. Perkins is CDC's Chief Strategy and
Innovation Officer, and Chief, Office of
Strategy and Innovation (OSI), Office of the
Director, Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC).
Dr. Perkins has been a key leader in design
and implementation of changes in CDC's
strategies and operations since 2003. Dr.
Perkins has played a principal role in CDC's
strategic imperatives, organizational
redesign, and enterprise wide Health Protection
Goals. |
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Leading OSI, Dr. Perkins is
a catalyst for CDC's efforts to influence
health system transformation in ways that
emphasize health protection and health
equity through policy interventions and multisector and public engagements, focusing
on relationships with business, and
understanding public demand for health.
He has created innovative collaborations in
areas of rapid health system change
including personal health records,
retail-based health clinics, and workforce
health efforts.Dr. Perkins received his
BA degree in microbiology and M.D. from the
University of Missouri-Columbia, and his MBA
from Emory University. He completed
his Internal Medicine Residency at Baylor
College of Medicine in Houston and served as
Chief Medical Resident at the Houston VA
Medical Center.
Dr. Perkins joined CDC in 1989 as an
Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer, and
he served as Chief of the Meningitis and
Special Pathogens Branch, and Associate
Director for Bioterrorism, in the Division
of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases. He
played critical roles in establishing CDC's
Laboratory Response Network and Strategic
National Stockpile prior to 9/11 and the
following anthrax attacks. In 2001, he
led CDC's investigation of the index anthrax
cases in Florida, and he was CDC's overall
technical lead for response to the anthrax
attacks. Dr. Perkins has worked as a
consultant in more then 25 different
countries on meningitis, epidemic-prone
diseases, and other emerging infectious
diseases. Dr. Perkins received an
exceptional capability promotion to the rank
of CAPT in the US Public Health Service in
1997, and in 2003 he was tenured in the
Research Officer Group. Dr. Perkins
has published more than 120 scientific
articles and book chapters, and he has
received numerous awards in recognition of
scientific contributions in public health. |
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