Graduate Profiles
R. Serene Perkins, MD
Dr. Serene Perkins is the Director of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgical Oncology at Legacy Health Systems in Portland, Oregon. After completing General Surgery Residency at Thomas Jefferson University in 2006, Serene Perkins joined the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Department of Surgery Faculty as Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of International Surgery, a program which she spearheaded.
Dr. Perkins began her career in a highly remote mountainous area of Pakistan’s Northwest Frontier Province, serving the only district hospital to survive the 2005 earthquake. Recognizing the disparate access to quality surgical care which burdens many countries in South Asia, she sought counsel from leading surgeons both here and abroad. In India, she found colleagues who shared a common vision to improve access to superior surgical care, not only within India, but throughout the South Asian subcontinent. She has since formed an international academic collaboration between OHSU and the Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGIMS) in Lucknow, the premier subspecialty referral center in a state of 128 million people.
Dr. Perkins completed her fellowship in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgical Oncology and Solid Organ Transplantation at the University of Toronto in 2009. In addition to serving on multiple global health-related committees of several academic surgical societies, she is also the International Surgery Advisor for the World Journal of Surgery. Her academic and research interests are in hepatocellular and gallbladder carcinoma.
