Get the latest news
Subscribe to receive updates from the School of Data Science.
Faculty
Paul Perrin
Professor of Data Science
School of Data Science
Additional Roles
Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Email: zvd2hf@virginia.edu
Additional Contact Information
Website: drpaulperrin.com/
Office: 164B
Paul Perrin is a Professor of Data Science and Psychology at UVA. He believes that disparities in the context of disability and health are one of the most shocking and inhumane forms of oppression and that the academic and medical communities have a central role to play in their alleviation. A combination of data science, modern analytic techniques, and community-based participatory research approaches are key tools for identifying the sources of—and potential solutions to—these disparities. With this aim, his research area of “social justice in disability and health” encompasses three facets: (a) cultural, familial, and international approaches to disability rehabilitation and adjustment, particularly in medically underserved and minority populations with neurological conditions; (b) social determinants of health (e.g., stigma, access to integrated care and telehealth, personal and collective strengths); and (c) social justice approaches to understand and dismantle oppression.
Perrin is a psychologist by training and holds a joint appointment with the University of Virginia's Department of Psychology. He also serves as Co-Director of the Polytrauma Rehabilitation Center Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Program at the Central Virginia Veterans Affairs Health Care System and is an incoming editor of Rehabilitation Psychology. He is passionate about mentoring students in data science, psychology, and allied fields to become agents of social change in their personal and professional lives with an emphasis on disability and health. He teaches courses in multivariate statistics, research methodology, health disparities, health psychology, multicultural psychology, and community intervention. If you are considering applying to work with Perrin as a Ph.D. student, undergraduate student, postdoctoral fellow, or post-bac, please read more about the process on the Social Justice in Disability and Health Lab applicant page or apply to the Ph.D. in Data Science at UVA.
Perrin spent ten years as a student at the University of Florida, earning a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, an M.S. in Psychology, a B.S. in Psychology, and a B.A. in English Literature. He completed a trauma-focused clinical internship at the Maryland Veterans Affairs Health Care System and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Perrin completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Virginia Commonwealth University in Clinical Supervision and spent eleven years there as a faculty member before coming to UVA.
Selected Publications
Fisher, L. B., Curtiss, J. E., Klyce, D. W., Perrin, P. B., Juengst, S. B., Gary, K. W., Niemeier, J. P., Hammond, F. M., Bergquist, T. F., Wagner, A. K., Rabinowitz, A. R., Giacino, J. T., & Zafonte, R. D. (in press). Using machine learning to examine suicidal ideation after TBI: A TBI Model Systems national database study. American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.
Kuzu, D., Perrin, P. B., & Pugh, M. (2021). Spinal cord injury/disorder function, affiliate stigma, and caregiver burden in Turkey. PM&R: The Journal of Injury, Function and Rehabilitation, 13, 1376-1384.
McKee, G. B., Perrin, P. B., Rodriguez-Agudelo, Y., Plaza, S. L. O., Quijano-Martinez, M. C., Kuzu, D., Ohayagha, C., Pugh, M., & Arango-Lasprilla, J. C. (2021). Suicidal ideation after acute traumatic brain injury: A longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model of patients and caregivers in Latin America. Rehabilitation Psychology, 66, 433-441.
Perrin, P. B., McDonald, S. D., Watson, J. D., Pierce, B. S., & Elliott, T. R. (2021). A telehealth Transition Assistance Program for acute spinal cord injury caregivers: Protocol for a mixed-methods, randomized controlled trial. Journal of Medical Internet Research: Research Protocols, 10, e28256.
Merced, K., Ohayagha, C., Grover, R., Garcia-Rodriguez, I., Moreno, O., & Perrin, P. B. (2022). Spanish translation and psychometric validation of a measure of acculturative stress among Latinx immigrants in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 2808.
Pugh, M., Perrin, P. B., Rybarczyk, B., & Tan, J. S. (2021). Racism, mental health, healthcare provider trust, and medication adherence among black patients in safety-net primary care. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings, 28, 181-190.
Pierce, B. S., Perrin, P. B., Tyler, C. M., McKee, G. B., & Watson, J. D. (2021). The COVID-19 telepsychology revolution: A national study of pandemic-based changes in U.S. mental health care delivery. American Psychologist, 76, 14-25.
Perrin, P. B., Sutter, M., Trujillo, M. A., Henry, R. S., & Pugh, M. (2020). The minority strengths model: Development and initial path analytic validation in racially/ethnically diverse LGBTQ individuals. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 76, 118-136.
Henry, R. S., Smith, E. R., & Perrin, P. B., & Rabinovitch, A. E. (2021). Structural equation model predicting LGB ally behaviors in heterosexuals. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 18, 331-338.
Jones, H. A., Perrin, P. B., Heller, M. B., Barnett, C., & Hailu, S. (2018). Black psychology graduate students’ lives matter: Using informal mentoring to create an inclusive climate amidst national race-related events. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice, 49, 75-82.