Martha Fairbanks Perry was born and raised in central Massachusetts where her mother worked as a public-school educator and her father as a basic research scientist, inspiring her to pursue a career involving science and teaching as well as service to others, a core family value. She majored in psychology at Princeton University and then attended the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She completed residency at the Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center and Adolescent Medicine Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Over the past 20 years, Dr. Perry has worked in multiple healthcare settings, including academic medical centers, school-based-health centers, small and large private practices, a federally qualified health center and a community-based hospital. Prior to joining the faculty at Children’s National, Dr. Perry was the founding chief of the Adolescent Medicine Section at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she built a robust outpatient specialty practice as well as an inpatient consultative service. She has been published in multiple adolescent medicine subject areas including confidentiality during telehealth visits as well as adolescent reproductive health access. Her current clinical passions include eating disorder prevention by addressing societal weight stigma and fat phobia, and reduction in substance use disorder, particularly fentanyl use. As a Clinical Professor at George Washington University and Faculty member at Children’s National Hospital, she serves as Medical Director of the Eating Disorder Program and Program Director of the Adolescent Medicine Fellowship.