Keith Perry has been named chief information officer at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and will provide strategic counsel and leadership for the hospital’s information technology initiatives.  

Perry joins St. Jude from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston where he served as associate vice president and deputy chief information officer. Some of his most noteworthy accomplishments in this role include managing the division’s $290-million annual budget, and implementing high-performance computing programs to support research and clinical applications, such as next-generation genomic sequencing and proton beam modeling.

Perry earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, and an MBA from the University of Houston.