Diana Perkins

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Diana Perkins
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Maryland (BS) University of Maryland School of Medicine (MD) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (MPH)
Academic work
Discipline	Psychiatrist
Sub-discipline	Psychosis Schizophrenia
Institutions	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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.^[3]