Before his current position, Perlin held significant leadership roles in healthcare organizations.
Notably, as President, Clinical Operations, and Chief Medical Officer at HCA Healthcare, he spearheaded initiatives aimed at enhancing care delivery across the system's extensive network of 189 hospitals and 2,200 other healthcare facilities.
Perlin's CHARGE consortium facilitated accelerated research by leveraging real-world evidence from over 400,000 COVID inpatients.
Previously, Perlin served as Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from April 6, 2004 to August 11, 2006.
[5] As an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in 2015,[6] he has co-chaired NAM action collaboratives on critical topics such as digital health, combatting the opioid epidemic, and healthcare sustainability in the face of climate change.