Perkoff, Gerald T., 1926-

Physician and health care researcher, born 1926. Perkoff received his medical degree from the Washington University School of Medicine in 1948. After an internship and residency in Salt Lake City at the University of Utah, Perkoff became an investigator at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Disease at the National Institutes of Health from 1952-54. Perkoff then returned to the University of Utah, serving as research instructor in Medicine, 1954-58, and research assistant professor of Medicine, 1958-62. In addition, he was chief of the medical service of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City, 1961-63. In 1963 Perkoff returned to St. Louis and the Washington University School of Medicine, joining the faculty as associate professor of Medicine. He served as professor of Medicine from 1965-79 and as director of the Division of Health Care Research from 1968-1979. In 1979 Perkoff became a curators'professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine.