Dr. Perry is a native of New York.  He received his BA degree in Biology from Princeton University and an MD with Distiction in Research from the University of Rochester.  After completing his pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, he did his fellowship in pediatric cardiology and electrophysiology at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston.  Dr. Perry remained at TCH as Director of Electrophysiology until 1993, when he joined the pediatric cardiology group at Children's Hospital in San Diego, California.  He helped start the first adult congenital heart program in the region in 2000.  He was Director of the Cardiology division there until 2004, when he accepted a position as Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at Yale University School of Medicine.  While at Yale, he helped start the successful Yale-New Haven Adult Congenital Heart Program.

Dr. Perry joined the Children's Heart Clinic to co-direct with Dr. Dummer the new Midwest Adult Congenital Cardiac Center and continue his work in pediatric and congenital electrophysiology with Dr. Burton.  He is past president if the International Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society, a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and  the Heart Rhythm Society, a Board of Directors member of the CARE Foundation and serves on the editorial boards and reviews for many professional journals.  He is a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Minnesota.

Special interests include a focus on arrhythmia management in the growing adult congenital heart population.  Outside of medicine, he enjoys the outdoors, including running, surfing and supporting the Surfrider Foundation.

Dr. Perry and his wife, Nicole, live in Minneapolis.