John C. Perkins, Jr., MD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Research Institute
ROANOKE, Virginia

Dr. Perkins completed a combined Emergency and Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Maryland in 2007. He has spent the better part of two decades teaching in the Emergency, Internal, and Family medicine academic setting. Since 2012 he has been in Roanoke, VA and is currently Associate Professor of Emergency, Internal, and Family Medicine at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. He has delivered more than 100 National and International lectures and has a niche interest in Social Determinants of Health, Geriatric Emergency Medicine, and delivery of education through panel discussions focused on flipping the script so that patients become educators. He has created and served as the moderator for four previous panel discussions on topics such as transgender care in the Emergency Department, best practice in caring for patients with Sickle Cell Disease, addiction medicine from the patient perspective, and best practice for patients with oncologic pathology.

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Presentation(s):

• Failures of Sepsis Screening Algorithms and How to Identify Those Patients Before They Descend the Septic Spiral Staircase of Death

  Tuesday, April 14, 2026
  1:05 PM - 1:25 PM PT