Diana Perkins
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| Discipline | Psychiatrist |
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| Institutions | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Diana O. Perkins is an American professor at the University of North Carolina's (UNC) School of Medicine where she teaches psychiatry; she is a fellow with outreach roles. Her research involves early diagnosis and treatment of schizophrenia. She is noted for publishing a study that demonstrated that using a polygenic risk score (PRS) based on data from genome-wide association studies improved the psychosis risk prediction in persons meeting clinical high-risk criteria.
Education
Perkins' undergraduate work was completed at the University of Maryland in Psychology and Biochemistry; she received her Doctor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed a graduate degree in Epidemiology from UNC.