Jordan Hugh Perlow MD

Jordan H. Perlow, M.D., has been a partner with Phoenix Perinatal Associates; Phoenix, Arizona, and Associate Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center since 1992. He is a graduate of the Northwestern University Medical School and completed his residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush-Presbyterian St. Lukes's Medical Center/ Rush Medical College; both in Chicago. Dr. Perlow then completed additional fellowship training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of California-Irvine and is Board Certified and Recertified in both Obstetrics and Gynecology and the subspecialty of Maternal-Fetal Medicine.

Dr. Perlow is an active volunteer with the March of Dimes, and serves on the Board of Directors, is the Director of the Folic Acid Education Program for the State of Arizona, and is the Prematurity Awareness Campaign Chairman for this organization. He was recently named to serve on the National Office of Volunteers and was awarded the 2002 Distinguished Volunteer Service Award for the March of Dimes, the highest honor bestowed on a March of Dimes Volunteer. He has participated in numerous television, radio, and print media appearances on behalf of the March of Dimes' mission; To improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. He is also very active in educational programs regarding umbilical cord blood banking and is a member of the Scientific Advisory Boards for the Cord Blood Registry in Tucson, Arizona as well as cord blood banks in India, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brazil. He recently served as President of the Phoenix Obstetrical and Gynecological Society from 2005-2006.

Dr. Perlow has numerous research interests and has published peer-reviewed articles, review articles, and medical textbook chapters, and has spoken nationally and internationally on many of these topics, including Cesarean Section, The Health Benefits of Folic Acid, Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Preservation, Heparin Use in Pregnancy, Preterm Labor, Multiple Gestation and Medical Complications in Pregnancy.