Pam Peeke, MD

I am an internationally recognized expert, physician, scientist and author in the fields of nutrition, stress, fitness and public health. I am WebMD's lifestyle expert for their 90 million members and serve as chief medical correspondent for nutrition and fitness at Discovery Health TV, am featured on the award-winning National Body Challenge series and the host of the Could You Survive? series, based upon my national bestselling book Fit to Live.

My latest book, The Hunger Fix: The 3 Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction (Rodale, 2012), presents the new science of food and addiction, noting the latest NIH based research showing that food addiction is real. In The Hunger Fix, I present a plan for detox off the "false fixes" or addictive food products, and a blueprint for lifelong control and recovery by switching to "healthy fixes" and reclaiming the brain's hijacked reward center. The Hunger Fix is the first consumer book to present the science and plan and is a game changer in the field of weight management and healthy living.

I serve as spokesperson for the American College of Sports Medicine's Exercise is Medicine global initiative. Together with the US Surgeon General, I created the Surgeon General Walks for a Healthy and Fit Nation. I've been recognized by the National Library of Medicine as one of America’s leading physicians in their touring exhibition, Changing The Face of Medicine.

I hold the position of Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Maryland, School of Medicine, am board certified in internal medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. As a Pew Foundation Scholar in Nutrition and Metabolism during my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Califo ia at Davis and then as the first physician to serve as Senior Research Fellow at the National Institutes of Health Office of Alte ative Medicine, I conducted research in the newly evolving field of integrative medicine and was among the first physicians with formal training in nutrition science and while at the NIH, studied the relationship between chronic stress, nutrition, and weight gain.

My private practice, The Peeke Performance Center for Healthy LivingTM, has gotten hundreds of patients on the road to freedom from food addiction and my consulting associations with Curves, Zumba Fitness, More Magazine, Prevention Magazine, WTOP Radio, Anytime Fitness, WMZQ Radio, Yoga Fit, Octane Fitness and JM Marriott Hotels and Resorts, among others, have affected thousands of people's eating/exercise/attitudes in the pursuit of optimal health.