Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP

Exercise is Medicine

May 2009 is Exercise is Medicine Month is the special recognition month for Exercise is Medicine and a time for everyone to recognize, emphasize and celebrate the valuable health benefits of exercise on a national scale. Exercise and physical activity are important to health and the prevention and treatment of many chronic diseases.

Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, FACP -

Dr. Pamela Peeke is an internationally renowned physician, scientist and expert in the fields of nutrition, metabolism, stress and fitness. Calling herself an “edutainer”, Dr. Peeke uses her trademark wit and humor to provide audiences with a healthy lifestyle message in such a memorable and entertaining style that she is the most requested woman physician speaker in America. An avid athlete, Dr. Peeke is nationally known as the “doc who walks the talk” as she inspires by living the message she teaches. Dr. Peeke is a featured physician in the National Institutes of Health’s “Changing Face of Medicine” exhibit on the history of women physicians at the National Library of Medicine. She has been named one of America’s top physicians by the Consumers Research Council of America. Dr. Peeke is a Pew Foundation Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

4 / 21 / 2009