Ryan Perkins is a fellow in the Harvard Wide Pediatric Health Services Research Fellowship and a MPH student at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.  He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Mississippi and received his M.D. from Louisiana State University in Shreveport.  He completed residency training in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, MS.  He completed combined Pediatric and Adult Pulmonary training at Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital.