Dr. Perzynski is Assistant Professor of Medicine and Sociology in the Center for Health Care Research and Policy at MetroHealth and Case Western Reserve University. His research methods expertise ranges from focus groups and ethnography to psychometrics and structural equation modelling. He joined MetroHealth in 2008 as faculty, and has more than 100 presentations at scientific meetings and more than 50 publications. His publications cross many disciplines, and include journals like the Journal of the American Medical Association, The Journal of General Internal Medicine and The Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Dr. Perzynski's work represents a career long effort to infuse the study of biomedical scientific problems with the knowledge, theories and methods of social science. His current work includes examining the mechanisms through which social factors influence health and clinical care.