James A. Perkins

Prof. Perkins is an expert in the visual communication of complex biomedical subject matter, particularly in the areas of cell biology, molecular biology, physiology, and pathology. He has illustrated over 60 medical textbooks and serves as a consultant to several medical publishers.

For 25 years, he was the sole illustrator for the “Robbins” series of pathology texts, including Robbins and Cotran's Pathologic Basis of Disease, one of the best-selling medical books of all time. He also illustrated the most recent two editions of Guyton and Hall Textbook of Medical Physiology.

Prof. Perkins also serves as one of three illustrators who carry on the work of the late Dr. Frank H. Netter, hailed as the greatest medical illustrator of our time. Perkins contributes most of the molecular and cellular art to new titles bearing the Netter name.