Physician Profile

Eric D. Peterson, MD, MPH, FAHA, FACC

Education:
Medical School:
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pennsylvania, MD, 1988

Residency:
Brigham & Women's Hospital, Massachusetts, General Internal Medicine, 1989-1991
Harvard, Massachusetts, General Internal Medicine, 1991-1992

Fellowship:
Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, Cardiology, 1992-1995
School of Public Health, Harvard University, Massachusetts, MPH, 1992

Clinical Interests/Specialties:
All aspects of general and acute care cardiology.

Research:
Dr. Peterson is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology and the Associate Vice Chair for Quality at Duke University Medical Center. He is also an Associate Director and Director of CV Research at the Duke Clinical Research Institute. His formal research training includes an MPH from Harvard University with special emphasis in biostatistics, health economics, and decision analysis. Dr. Peterson is a leader in quality research, with 300+ peer-reviewed publications in the field. Dr. Peterson is also the Principal Investigator for the NIH/AHRQ Duke Centers for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERTs), Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) National Cardiac Surgery Database, Data Coordinating Center for both the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiac Database (ACC-NCDR) and the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines Data (AHA GWTG).

Dr. Peterson participates on multiple national committees including Chair of the AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Interdisciplinary Working Group; AHA Heart IT Task Force, AHA Strategic Planning Task Force; the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative (QUERI) Executive Committee, and their Cardiac Surgery Consultants Committee; oversight board of the Massachusetts Data Analysis Center (MASS-DAC), the National Quality Forum Technical Advisory Panel for Priorities, Goals and a Measurement Framework: Efficiency and Episodes of Care, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on the Redesigning Insurance Benefits, Provider Payments, and Accountability Programs to Promote Quality of Health Care Delivery, the ACC NCDR Science Oversight Subcommittee, ACC/AHA Task Force on Clinical Data Standards, ACC/AHA Committee to Update Guidelines on the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina/Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction, The American Federation for Aging Research (AFAR) National Scientific Advisory Council. Dr. Peterson is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) Council. He received the DukeMed Scholar Award in 2007. He is also a Contributing Editor on the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Hospital Affiliations:
Duke University Medical Center