Ruthie Perez received her BS and MS degrees in Allied Health Studies from the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY in 2003. She has over 10 years of experience in clinical research, in the specialties of Multiple Sclerosis and Diabetes. Ms. Perez joined the Neurology Department at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in 2008 as a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator working on Multiple Sclerosis studies. In 2017, she joined Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital as the Research Supervisor of their Diabetes studies in the Department of Medicine. She recently re-joined the Neurology Department at Mount Sinai as the Project Manager of their NeuroNEXT Program across all of the Mount Sinai campuses in New York City.