Pamela Peeke's Key Accomplishments Include . . .
Dr. Pamela Peeke is a nationally recognized physician, scientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, stress, and fitness. Dr. Peeke is known as an “edutainer”, combining her notable wit and humor with the latest scientific data and common sense approaches to holistic, healthy living, to provide audiences with her healthy living message in a memorable and entertaining mode of delivery. Her speaking and presentation style have earned her the reputation as the most requested physician speaker in the field of nutrition and fitness.
Dr. Peeke is the author of the national bestseller Fight Fat After Forty (2001, Viking Press), which presented her groundbreaking research describing how chronic stress contributes to weight gain and threatens the length and quality of life for men and women. Dr. Peeke has become known as the scientist who first presented the scientific basis of the stress-fat connection to the American public, raising awareness about this potentially life threatening medical condition.
Dr. Peeke’s book, Body for Life for Women (Rodale) released in April 2005 is a New York Times bestseller. Using cutting edge science and a holistic and integrative program, Dr. Peeke shows women how to transform their lives and achieve and maintain their optimal mind and body fitness throughout the decades of their life.
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Dr. Peeke has distinguished herself as one of the only physicians in America with formal training in nutrition science. Dr. Peeke is a Pew Foundation Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism and holds the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Dr. Peeke was recently recognized as one of the leading women physicians in America by the National Institutes of Health Library of Medicine’s first exhibit on the history of American women physicians. A practitioner of holistic, integrative medicine, Dr. Peeke was the first senior research fellow at the National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine, where she helped establish the scientific foundation for the research and development of investigations involving nutrition and fitness. Dr. Peeke is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is an expert in the newly emerging field of gender specific health and medicine, emphasizing the strengths and vulnerabilities of both genders as they practice healthy lifestyles.
A native of San Francisco and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Peeke received her Masters Degree in Public Health and Public Policy before pursuing her medical degree at Michigan. Dr. Peeke completed her training in internal medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center. After ten years as a specialist in critical care and trauma, Dr. Peeke received the Pew Foundation Post-doctoral Scholarship in Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of California at Davis. As a Pew Scholar, Dr. Peeke was invited to come to the National Institutes of Health and pursue her work in nutrition and stress physiology. As a senior scientist, Dr. Peeke has focused her basic and clinical research upon the relationship between chronic stress and nutrition. At the NIH, Dr. Peeke was the recipient of the National Research Science Award Fellowship as well as the Intramural Research Training Award Fellowship. Dr. Peeke received her training in molecular biology at the NIH Howard Hughes Foundation.
Dr. Peeke is Chief Medical Correspondent for Nutrition and Fitness for the Discovery Health Channel, and is the doctor behind their National Body Challenge campaign and television series. Her next book, The Body Challenge Success Guide, will be released January 2006 in conjunction with her 12 week campaign and series.
Dr. Peeke is a regular in-studio medical commentator for the national networks. Dr. Peeke is the monthly columnist and contributing editor for numerous national magazines, and is a member of Oprah Winfrey’s O Team of nationally recognized experts in women’s health. Dr. Peeke is also a member of the American College of Sports Medicine and works as one of the physicians for the NBA’S Washington Wizards where she maintains players in optimal shape for the basketball season. Dr. Peeke is a member of the Maryland Governor’s Council on Fitness establishing public policy regarding nutrition and fitness statewide.
Dr. Peeke is an advisor and expert in mind-body fitness with the former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for his national Shape Up America campaign. She is the Medical Advisor to the National Women’s Health Resource Center, the Sister to Sister Heart Foundation, as well as the NIH Office of Women’s Research. An avid athlete, Dr. Peeke is also known as the doctor who “walks the talk”, providing women throughout the country with the opportunity to join her annual Peeke Week Retreats for Healthy Living. These include marathons, mountain hikes and outdoor mind and body challenges.
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