Dr. Deb Perry is a practicing pathologist at Nebraska Methodist and Women’s hospitals and Children’s Nebraska Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska. She served as laboratory medical director of Children’s laboratory for 22 years and as laboratory director of Methodist and Women’s laboratories for 7 years. She has served as medical staff president at Children’s Nebraska, serves on medical staff committees at Children’s, Methodist and Women’s hospitals and is a member of the Methodist Hospital Board of Directors.

Dr. Perry attended medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC), residency at the University of Iowa and a hematopathology fellowship at UNMC. She has anatomic and clinical pathology board certification and hematology and pediatric pathology subspecialty boards. As part of a 15 member pathology group she focuses predominantly on hematopathology and pediatric pathology.

With years as an active member of the CAP, Dr. Perry has been chair of the POCT committee, served on the Hematology resource, Publications, Nominating and Accreditation committees and is currently on the Council of Accreditation. She has been on many CAP inspections, both nationally and internationally. In conjunction with two other pathologists, Dr. Perry received the CAP Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013 for leading the Laboratory Medical Directorship course for many years. In 2024 she was given the CAP Distinguished Service Award. She is looking forward to working with the CAP Foundation Board to continue positively impacting patients.