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Monica E. Peek, MD, MPH, of Chicago, is an assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago. She received her M.D. and M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins University and completed her residency training in internal medicine at Stanford University Hospital. Peek has won numerous awards for her community-based, culturally-tailored program Sisters Working It Out, a program that empowers African-American women in Chicago's public housing projects to battle breast cancer and advocate for policy changes. She has also established several service-learning initiatives for medical students to work with mammography outreach programs and provide women's health education to medically underserved women in Chicago. Peek has conducted research on the access of African-American women to breast cancer screening and is the author of peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. As a member of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program office Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change, Dr. Peek is the senior author on the systematic review of health care interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer outcomes. She was named on of the "Top 40 under 40" in Chicago by Crain's Business Magazine in 2004 and was ranked among Chicago's Top Female Physicians in 2005. | 