Adam T. Perzynski, PhD

Adam T. Perzynski, PhD, is Professor of Medicine (with tenure) and Professor of Sociology at Case Western Reserve University, and directs the Patient Centered Media Lab at The MetroHealth System, a population health / digital health lab he founded in 2014. His work sits at the intersection of medical sociology, health disparities, and digital health — asking how the neighborhoods people live in shape their health, and building the software and data infrastructure to act on the answer.

He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Case Western Reserve University (2008), his M.A. in Sociology from the University of Toledo (1999), and his B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Toledo (1997). He is affiliated with CWRU's Institute for Smart, Secure and Connected Systems, the Mary Ann Swetland Center for Environmental Health, the Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, the Schubert Center for Child Studies, and the Center for Reducing Health Disparities, and serves as Adjunct Staff/Visiting Researcher in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Cleveland Clinic.

Beyond the university, Dr. Perzynski serves as Chief Science and Strategy Officer of Global Health Metrics, LLC, and as a Founding Advisory Board Member of InSpirit/TritonX. He is a public figure in population health and digital health circles, regularly cited for his work connecting redlining, neighborhood disadvantage, and health outcomes.

Selected honors

• 2022 Google Cloud Research Innovator
• 2018– Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (FGSA)
• 2023 Top Ranked Abstract, Society for Medical Decision Making, 18th Biennial European Conference — Sociometric Proof of Concept of a 7-Step Health Achievement Measurement Approach for Neighborhoods
• 2022 MetroHealth Dissemination Award — "Patient Portals and Broadband Internet Inequality"
• 2018 Outstanding Paper Award by a Young Investigator, Society for Medical Decision Making (with Jarrod Dalton)
• 2016 1st Place Best Oral Presentation, MetroHealth Research Day — Neighborhood Disadvantage and Cardiovascular Event Risk