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Keith Perry named chief information officer at St. Jude

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KEITH PERRY was named as chief information officer of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Perry joins St. Jude from MD Anderson Cancer Center where he served as associate vice president and deputy chief information officer.

He helped manage the division’s 290 million dollar annual budget, and implemented high performance computing programs to support research and clinical applications, such as next-generation genomic sequencing and proton beam modeling.

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