Biography
Jay A. Perman, MD, was appointed president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) effective July 1, 2010. It marks a return to the UMB campus where Perman chaired the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine from 1999 to 2004.
Perman left Baltimore, where he also had served at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, to become the dean and vice president for clinical affairs at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine from 2004 to 2010.
In his six years at UK, Perman oversaw the recruitment of nearly 200 faculty members, a 40 percent increase in the number of science faculty and a 30 percent increase in clinical department faculty. Total all-source revenues grew by $150 million to $500 million in Fiscal Year 2009. He was responsible for the leadership and professional management of the College of Medicine’s research, educational, clinical and administrative activities, academic departments, and research centers.
Perman becomes the sixth president at UMB, the state of Maryland’s only public academic health, law, and human services university. The founding institution of the University System of Maryland, UMB has a Graduate School and six professional schools (dental, law, medicine, nursing, pharmacy, and social work) and a 10-acre research BioPark. Extramural funding totaled a record $517 million in FY 2009.
Perman received a Doctor of Medicine degree with Distinction in 1972 from Northwestern University. Following his residency in pediatrics at Northwestern University Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago in 1975, he completed a fellowship in pediatric gastroenterology at Harvard Medical School and at the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Boston in 1977.
From 1977 to 1984, he was an assistant professor and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Perman was at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1984 to 1996, serving as a professor of pediatrics and a leader of several important divisions.
From 1996 to 1999, Perman was the Jessie Ball duPont Professor and chairman in the Department of Pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia in Richmond.
Perman's long and distinguished career includes service on many national, state, and local organizations, boards, and committees including the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans, The Children's Cancer Foundation, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and the Greater Baltimore Committee. While at the University of Kentucky, he received the President's Award for Diversity and the Public Health Hero Award from the Lexington-Fayette Urban County government, and he has been listed among The Best Doctors in America since 2001. He is a past president of the North American Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, a former section chair of the American Gastroenterological Association, and a former Executive Committee member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
A native of Chicago, Perman and his wife, Andrea, a research nurse, have four adult children and reside in Baltimore.
