Dr. Pamela Peeke is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Peeke received her Masters Degree in Public Health and Public Policy from the University of California at Berkeley before pursuing her medical degree at Michigan State University. Dr. Peeke completed her training in internal medicine at the George Washington University Medical Center and is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. After ten years as a specialist in critical care, Dr. Peeke received the Pew Foundation Post-doctoral Scholarship in Nutrition and Metabolism from the University of California at Davis. While a senior research fellow, Dr. Peeke was the recipient of the National Research Science Award and Intramural Research Training Award Fellowships. 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 has been 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 member of the Maryland Governor's Council on Fitness, and is medical director of the National Women's Health Resource Center. Dr. Peeke is the founder of the Peeke Performance Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where she practices medicine.

Dr. Peeke is Chief Medical Correspondent for Nutrition and Fitness for the Discovery Health television. She is featured on The National Body Challenge show, a health and lifestyle series, the wellness plan for which is in her book The Discovery National Body Challenge for the Whole Family. Dr. Peeke is the author of the national bestseller Fight Fat After Forty, which presented her groundbreaking research describing how chronic stress contributes to weight gain and disease risk. Dr. Peeke's book, Body for Life for Women 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.

Dr. Peeke is a regular in-studio medical commentator for the national networks and is the monthly columnist and contributing editor for numerous national magazines, including Good Housekeeping, Shape, O magazine, Yoga International, and Prevention, and is a member of Oprah Winfrey's O Team of nationally recognized experts in women's health.