His mission: To inspire hope, and expand the health and well-being of each patient by providing personalized optimal care through integrated clinical practice, and neuroscience research.
- Co-Chair: Sharp Neuroscience Foundation
- Founding Partner and Director: Skull Base Surgery and Head and Neck Oncology- Senta Clinic
- Fellowship Director: Senta Clinic
- Chairman: Prewitt Foundation
- President: Amerisleep Diagnostics Inc.
- President and CMO: Powell-Maasfield Inc.
- President: Precious Metals Fine Motorcars of San Diego
- President: Mansfield Companies Inc.
- US News and World Report: Top Doctors in America
- Castle Connolly: Top Doctors of America
- San Diego Magazine: Top Doctors
- Doctors Across America: Americas Top Doctors
- Center for Study of Services: Top Doctor
Consumer's Handbook: American's Top-Rated Physician in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Perry T. Mansfield, M.D. is a Canadian born physician, born in Toronto, Ontario. He obtained a medical school degree with honors and Dean’s List designation from the University of Toronto in 1987. He completed residency/research training, at the University of Toronto in Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery in 1993, as well as Clinical and Research Fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive surgery at the University of Toronto. As part of his training he spent a year of General/Trauma Surgery in South Central Los Angeles at Harbor UCLA Medical Center and USC Medical Center. During his year in Los Angeles he obtained a California medical License in 1990. He obtained board certifications in both Canada and the United States. He has been a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and a Diplomat of the American Board of Otolaryngology for nearly three decades. While in Canada, he received the Canadian Humane Association; Canada Award of Bravery (from the Queen of England). To recognize such deeds of heroism, by Canadians in civilian life…
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He moved to San Diego in 1993 and opened a small private surgical practice where he joined R. Stuart Weeks MD. His mother’s personal battle with stage 4 lung cancer and untimely death defined his career intent. He worked to develop a focused tertiary referral head and neck cancer practice and within a few years was appointed the Program Medical Director of The Center for Skull Base Surgery a joint program between University of California San Diego and Alvarado Hospital Medical Center. He directed this program for several years creating one of the first dedicated multidisciplinary Skull Base programs in the country. He worked on new intake and data tracking methods for patients with skull base diseases. His progressive approaches changed clinical outpatient and hospital data tracking of disease specific metrics including length of stay and complication measures.
His continued quest to deliver optimal patient satisfaction and patient centered care in the skull base led Dr. Mansfield to co-found Senta Clinic. As Founding CEO in 2004, and current board member of Senta Clinic, he worked with patients, business leaders, hospital administrators, healthcare regulatory attorneys, and politicians to help build and grow the various disciplines and ancillary services to support a regional referral skull base program. Senta Clinic has evolved into a digitally integrated healthcare model aggressively interacting with hospital data portals, insurance and government agencies to assure best practice methods, with an emphasis on complication optimization, and length of stay minimization. Dr. Mansfield is the Director of Head and Neck Oncology and Skull base surgery and Fellowship Director at Senta Clinic. His role as a head and neck surgeon focuses on disorders of the skull base specializing in major open and endoscopic tumor ablation and reconstructive approaches. He contributed to a textbook with his International Fellow, Dr. Hector Prado: Practice of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery.
He has published extensively and recently was on the scientific committee and organizing committee of the North American Skull Base Society International meeting attended by over 800 International head and neck cancer and skull base surgeons. In addition, he presented expert didactic lectures in Open skull base surgery and reconstruction, Sino-nasal Melanoma, Economic impact of skull base surgery, Invasive fungal infections in the skull base. Recent publications include: (1) Pilot study of a novel transmembranous device for assessment of oral cavity and oropharyngeal muscles. (2) Evaluating the Clinical, Medicolegal, and Economic Impact of Continuous Tracking of Multidisciplinary Skull Base Conference Disease and Patient Metrics. (3) Identifying and Evaluating the Impact and Implications of Collaborative Multidisciplinary Care in Skull Base Treatment: Retrospective Analysis and Literary review- 3224 total cases. (4) The Evolving Role of Immunotherapy in Late-Stage Sinonasal Melanoma. (5) 12-Year Retrospective Analysis of 2,993 Consecutive Skull Base cases. (6) Effect of Continuous Left Ventricular Assist Device Blood Flow in a Free Flap.
In 1995, Dr. Mansfield developed the first regional multisystem Skull Base Surgery and Head and Neck Prospective Multidisciplinary tumor conference. For over two decades Dr. Mansfield has presented several thousand cases in collaboration with the specialties of Neurosurgery, head and neck surgery, Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, neuroradiology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, prosthodontists, oculoplastic surgery, neuro-ophthalmology and the rehabilitative disciplines.
In the mid 2000’s, Dr. Mansfield was elected by over 600 physicians to become Chief of Staff, and Chief of Surgery of Alvarado Hospital Medical Center, a 306-bed acute care hospital adjacent to San Diego State University. In addition to the duties of Chief of Staff, he focused on data tracking methods to educate and standardize physician patient care delivery as well as the implementation of the national Patient safety and Quality Improvement act
of 2005. He participated in the Judicial Review system.
Dr. Mansfield became the Medical Director of Head and Neck Services at Sharp Memorial Hospital in 2014. Sharp HealthCare includes four acute-care hospitals, two affiliated medical groups and a health plan. Sharp operates 2,100 beds, has approximately 2,600 physicians on medical staffs, more than 1,000 physicians in affiliated medical groups and more than 16,000 employees. Dr. Mansfield has worked on implementing best practice methods, standardized nursing protocols, ongoing nursing educational sessions, and skull base training. He has worked to develop a prospective method of multidisciplinary patient care with data tracking metrics to assure optimal acute and long-term care disease management. He was involved in a National campaign to raise awareness of head and Neck cancer and participated as the lead surgeon for a Sharp experience show that has aired Nationally.
Dr. Mansfield has served as Chairman of the Steven Prewitt Skull Base Disease Foundation since its inception in 2005. The Prewitt Foundation is a 501 (C) 3 private Charity. The charity is a neuroscience accelerator for clinical and research advancement. He additionally has been honored on the USO-San Diego board, San Diego Air and Space Museum board and the Polinsky Center.
Dr. Mansfield has been repeatedly selected by US News and World report, Castle-Connelly, Consumer Research Council, Doctor’s across America, and San Diego Magazine by his peers among top ranked Head and Neck surgeons. He has repeatedly been named to these lists each year for nearly two decades. A passion for sleep apnea and improving upon current therapies led him to an introduction to Dr. Nelson Powell. The two of them formed a neurodiagnostic company named Powell Mansfield Inc. in 2015. The ultimate goal of Powell Mansfield Inc. is to improve the diagnostic accuracy and specificity of neuromuscular diseases in areas that are not currently routinely studied. Powell Mansfield Inc. was granted the cover article in Muscle and Nerve Magazine for their first publication titled Pilot study of a novel transmembranous device for assessment of oral cavity and oropharyngeal muscles
in December 21. He founded Amerisleep Diagnostics focusing on a broad area of sleep diagnostic testing including polysomnography, currently referred several hundred sleep tests per month. www.amerisleepsd.com.
Dr. Mansfield’s future clinical directions include creation of a Hospital based Center of Excellence in Neuroscience, evolving disease specific care delivery integrated pathways, refine disease specific data portals to optimize resources for care delivery and the creation of contracted disease specific treatment with insurers, government and private industry. His research direction is currently focused on the evolution of technology, IRB protocols and data analysis of novel patented technology.
Dr. Mansfield maintains staff privileges at Scripps Memorial Hospital, Sharp Memorial Hospital, and Sharp Grossmont hospital. He has maintained the highest standing in all the hospitals at which he holds privileges and has extensive peer review experience on various medical staffs, serving on over 25 peer review committees.
His wife Judith, two children and grandchild are the joy of his life. His passion outside of medicine biking and collecting and restoring vintage cars. His love of cars led to the development of an internationally celebrated car collection with sales and consignments of some of the most beautiful automobiles.