Dr Perry is the Senior Fellow of The Child Trauma Academy, a not-for-profit organisation based in Houston,
Texas, and adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Feinberg
School of Medicine at Northwestern University in Chicago. He serves as the inaugural Senior Fellow of the
Berry Street Childhood Institute in Victoria, Australia.
Dr Perry is the author, along with Maia Szalavitz, of The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog, a bestselling book based on his work with maltreated children, and Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. His most recent multimedia books, BRIEF: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma, and Society, and RESILIENT:
Six Core Strenths for Healthy Development, were released in 2013. Over the last 30 years Dr Perry has been an active teacher, clinician and researcher in children’s mental health and the neurosciences, holding a variety of academic positions.
Dr Perry has conducted both basic neuroscience and clinical research. His experience as a clinician and a researcher with traumatized children has led many community and governmental agencies to consult him following high profile incidents involving traumatized children, such as the Branch Davidian siege in Waco (1993), the Oklahoma City bombing (1995), the Columbine school shootings (1999), the September 11th terrorist attacks (2001), Hurricane Katrina (2005), the FLDS polygamist sect (2008), the earthquake in
Haiti (2010), the tsunami in Tohoku Japan (2011), and the Sandy Hook Elementary school shootings (2012).
Dr Perry is the author of over 500 journal articles, book chapters and scientific proceedings and is the recipient of numerous professional awards and honours. He has presented about child maltreatment, children’s mental health, neurodevelopment and youth violence in a variety of venues including policy-making bodies such as the White House Summit on Violence, the California Assembly and U.S. House Committee on Education.
Dr Perry has been featured in a wide range of media including National Public Radio, The Today Show, Good Morning America, Nightline, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, ABC and CBS News, and the Oprah Winfrey Show. His work has been featured in documentaries produced by Dateline NBC, 20/20, the BBC, Nightline, CBC, PBS, as well as international documentaries. Many print media have highlighted the clinical and research activities of Dr
Perry, including a Pulitzer Prize winning series in the Chicago Tribune, US News and World Report, Time, Newsweek, Forbes ASAP, Washington Post, the New York Times and Rolling Stone.
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