Dr. Whitney Perry joined Tufts CTSI’s Clinical and Translational Research Center as Associate Scientific Director in May 2025. She is an attending physician in the Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.

Dr. Perry’s clinical and research expertise are in Transplant Infectious Diseases. She studies clinical risk factors associated with cytomegalovirus and other opportunistic infections in solid organ transplantation. Her recent work has focused on the impact of biological sex and age on post-transplant immunity. She is also involved in multiple clinical trials of novel therapies for infections with severe outcomes in immunocompromised hosts.

She received her BA in Government from Georgetown University and her MD from Tufts University School of Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine residency followed by clinical and research fellowships in Infectious Diseases at Tufts Medical Center. Alongside her subspecialty training, she earned her Master’s in Clinical and Translational Science at Tufts University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences.