Dr. Perez is a Professor of Medicine at University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) and served as President and CEO of Berlex Biosciences (a subsidiary of Berlex Laboratories, the U.S. pharmaceutical affiliate of the Schering AG Group, Germany) from 2001 until May 2006. Dr. Perez is an author of over 110 research articles and is a member of a number of biomedical societies. After completing an internship and residency in internal medicine at Beth Israel-Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York, Dr. Perez was a Fellow in Rheumatology at New York University-Bellevue Medical Center. He served on the NYU faculty until he was recruited by UCSF to start the Rosalind Russell Arthritis Center at San Francisco General Hospital under the direction of Dr. Ira Goldstein. |