Eliana M. Perrin, MD, MPH is a general pediatrician and the Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Primary Care at Johns Hopkins University with appointments in the Department of Pediatrics in the School of Medicine, the School of Nursing, and a joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. She leads the Johns Hopkins University Primary Care Consortium and has co-led two academic primary care symposia as a joint partnership between JHU and the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

She is a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship Program-trained clinician investigator whose areas of research expertise are patient-oriented preventive care, health services research, and the prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity and other chronic health problems. She has been the lead on numerous large grants including two R01s. She has also been the Co-Principal Investigator on a 6-site PCORI-funded large comparative effectiveness randomized controlled trial of obesity prevention that enrolled 900 infants and their parents at 6 academic sites nationally to test a digital health intervention aimed at promoting healthy feeding, physical activity, sleep, and screen time to prevent obesity. This intervention was effective at preventing obesity and was published in JAMA in early November, 2024.

She was previously faculty at UNC (where she won the Hettleman award, the highest award for university scholarship) and Duke. She has held previous roles as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Division Chief of Primary Care Pediatrics, founding Director of the Duke Center for Childhood Obesity Research, and a fellowship director of the National Clinicians Scholars Program at Duke University. She was awarded the Academic Pediatric Association’s Miller-Sarkin national award for mentoring. She has been a board-certified primary care pediatrician for nearly 25 years, always practicing in clinics that serve high proportions of children insured by Medicaid.