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Dr. Seymour Perry, a cancer specialist who became an expert in evaluating medical technology, died at his home in Washington on May 19 from cancer, the disease he had spent a lifetime fighting. He was 78.
Born in New York, Dr. Perry had a long career as a doctor and teacher, but he became best known as an expert in evaluating health care systems and medical technology. He worked for 19 years at the National Institutes of Health, where he was deputy director of the division of cancer treatment and chief of human tumor cell biology and medicine. For 15 years, Dr. Perry was the director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Health Technology Assessment. In 1980, Dr. Perry was named assistant surgeon general, but later that year he stepped down when he was named the first director of the National Center for Health Care Technology.
In 1985, he was a founder and the first president of the International Society for Technology Assessment in Health Care, which encourages research and the exchange of information in health care technology. In 1993, he was appointed chairman of the Department of Community and Family Medicine at the Georgetown University Medical Center, where he also served as a professor of medicine.
Dr. Perry graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles and received his medical degree from the University of Southern California. He published more than 250 scholarly papers on technology assessment, cancer and other health issues.
Surviving are his wife of 49 years, Judith Perry; two sons, Grant, of Ridgefield, Conn., and David, of Fulton, Md.; a daughter, Anne Dunlap of Olney, Md.; a sister, Jean Mandler of Los Angeles; and three grandsons.
Grant Perry is active in his Ridgefield, Ct. community, and is a member of the Ridgefield Democratic Town Committee.
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