Biography

"Stephen P. Peters, MD, earned his medical degree and his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and completed his residency and internship in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Osler Medical Service. He then joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine as assistant professor in the divisions of respiratory medicine and allergy-clinical immunology. During this time, Dr Peters served as director of the Pulmonary Consultation Service for the Division of Respiratory Diseases at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, MD. He spent 16 years at Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, PA, as associate professor in the division of pulmonary medicine and critical care, and as associate director and interim director of the division of critical care, pulmonary, allergic and immunologic diseases. He is currently a professor of medicine and a member of the graduate faculty; director of research, section on pulmonary, critical care, allergy, and immunologic diseases; training program director, allergy and immunology; member, Center for Human Genomics; and associate in pediatrics and professor of pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Health Sciences,Winston-Salem, NC. Dr Peters is the principal investigator of several National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored grants. He has written more than 200 publications, including peer-reviewed research articles, books, and reviews, and has served on the editorial board of several journals. Dr Peters has been a reviewer for the NIH; the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and has given more than 100 lectures in his specialty area. Dr Peters is an active member of numerous national professional and scientific societies."

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