Background
Perkoff, Gerald Thomas was born on September 22, 1926 in St. Louis. Son of National and Ann (Schwartz) Perkoff.
Perkoff, Gerald Thomas was born on September 22, 1926 in St. Louis. Son of National and Ann (Schwartz) Perkoff.
M.D. cum laude, Washington University, 1948.
Intern, Salt Lake City General Hospital, 1948-1949;
resident, Salt Lake City General Hospital, 1950-1952;
from instructor to associate professor medicine, U. Utah, 1954-1963;
chief medical service, Salt Lake Veterans Administration Hospital., 1961-1963;
associate professor, then professor medicine, Washington University School Medicine, St. Louis, 1963-1979;
chief, Medical Service, St. Louis City Hospital, 1963-1968;
professor preventive medicine public health, director division health care research, Medical Service, St. Louis City Hospital, 1968-1979;
Curators professor and associate department chairman family and community medicine and professor medicine, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1979-1991;
Curators professor emeritus, U. Missouri, Columbia, since 1991;
co-director program health care and human values, U. Missouri, 1984-1985. Chairman national advising committee Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, 1989-1996. Deputy director Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Generalist Physician Initiative, since 1991.
Career research professor neuromuscular diseases National Foundation Neuromuscular Diseases, 1961. Founder, director Medical Care Group of Washington University, 1968-1978.
Served as junior assistant surgeon United States Public Health Service, 1953-1954. Member American Society Clinical Investigation, Society Teachers Family Medicine, Assn.Am. Physicians, Institute Medicine (National Academy Sciences).
Married Marion Helen Maizner, June 7, 1947. Children: David Alan, Judith Ilene, Susan Gail.