Body for Life for Women

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Pamela M. Peeke, M.D., M.P.H., F.A.C.PDr. Peeke is a Pew scholar in nutrition and metabolism, adjunct senior scientist at the National Institutes of Health and assistant clinical professor at University of Maryland School of Medicine. 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 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. 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.Dr. Peeke is the author of the national bestseller Fight Fat After Forty (2001, Viking Press), which presented groundbreaking research describing how chronic stress contributes to weight gain and threatens the length and quality of life after the age of forty.As a recognized scientist and physician, Dr. Peeke has appeared frequently as a medical expert on Larry King Live, CNN, NBC Nightly News, the Oprah Winfrey Show, The View with Barbara Walters, Dateline, Primetime, Good Morning America, Ted Koppel’s Nightline, CNN Crossfire, Good Morning America, and the CBS Morning Show. Dr. Peeke is medical correspondent with PBS’s Health Week for which her year 2000 national series, “Weighing the Diets in America” was nominated for a Freddie Award. Her ABC News Special “When Stress Hurts” with Dr. Nancy Snyderman won the 2001 Freddie Award for excellence in health and science commentary. Dr. Peeke was featured in PBS’s documentary “Mind Over Mirror: Women’s Body Image” funded by the Theresa Heinz Foundation, which won the coveted 1998 Gracie Award, the highest honor bestowed by Women in Film and Television. Dr. Peeke is the Medical Advisor for the National Women’s Resource Center and a lecturer and advisor to the National Institutes of Health Office of Women’s Research.Dr. Peeke also works with Michael Jordan 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 an advisor and expert in mind-body fitness with the former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop for his national Shape Up America campaign. Dr. Peeke works directly with the Vice President’s Office as the Medical Director of the National Race for the Cure for Breast Cancer, which hosts the largest 5K (over 80,000 walkers and runners) in the world. Dr. Peeke has been recently appointed by Maryland Governor Erhlich to the Maryland Council on Physical Fitness.A native of San Francisco and a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Peeke received the 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 over ten years as a specialist in critical care and trauma, Dr. Peeke received the Pew Foundation Post-doctoral Scholarship in Nutrition and Metabolism at the University of California at Davis. As a Pew Scholar, Dr. Peeke was invited to come to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) 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. She was the first senior research fellow at the NIH’s Office of Alternative Medicine where she established the scientific foundation for the research and development of investigations involving nutrition funded and supervised by the office.Dr. Peeke is a marathoner and resistance trained athlete. She ran the 2001 New York marathon, along with 12 of her women patients, the Peeke Performers, some of whom were breast cancer survivors.

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Date:

October 13, 2005

Speakers:

Pamela Peeke