UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Monica Peek, MD, MPH
Monica Peek, MD, MPH
UChicago Medicine Faculty Physicians
Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice of Medicine
Associate Director, Chicago Center for Diabetes Translational Research
Specialties
- Internal Medicine
- Primary Care
Locations
- Chicago - Hyde Park
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My name is Dr. Monica Peek. I am an internist here in the primary care group, and what that means is that I provide care for adults who have a number of chronic conditions-- diabetes, hypertension, asthma. And I do a lot of preventive care, so trying to screen for things early. I always try and say that I want to find something before it finds you. So we screen for breast cancer and colon cancer. We try and avoid diseases like hepatitis B or influenza by doing vaccinations. I have always wanted to be a doctor since I was a little girl. I love science and the way the body works. It's just a fascinating little machine with all the parts working together. But I really love taking care of people and being with people along their journey to wellness, to getting better, but also being there with them when they're at their most vulnerable times and being part of their support system. I've been at the University of Chicago for more than 20 years, and that says a lot about not only the institution but the people that work here. I have loved it here since the very first day I got here until right this second. There's so many things about this place that are wonderful. I love my colleagues. I love the patients that I take care of. I love the neighborhood that I live in, the school that my kids are able to go to. I love the mission of the hospital, the research that I'm able to do here to try and make the world a better place for some of the most vulnerable populations, who really need people who are willing to advocate for them and their health. And so I'm able to do that in a city like Chicago at a place like the University of Chicago. My philosophy of care is that I want patients to feel like they're informed and empowered to help make decisions about their care along the way, but to know that I'm going to be there, supporting them the entire time. So hopefully, things are great and we're just doing routine health maintenance and managing their chronic diseases. But if inevitably in life, sometimes things come up, I'm going to also be there and support them if they're in the hospital, if they get a bad diagnosis. Whatever happens, I'm there to support them and their family. So many times, patients feel afraid to come to the doctor, and so they put off coming to seek care until it's often too late. So one of my primary goals as a physician is to have people feel happy when they come to see me. When they leave, that they feel better than when they came in. And so I want to create safe, loving, happy spaces for people.
Monica Peek, MD, MPH, specializes in general internal medicine and preventive health for adults. She has a particular interest in reducing health care disparities and concentrates these efforts on diabetes care and breast cancer-screening education for African American patients.
As principal investigator on two multi-year clinical studies, Dr. Peek aims to improve diabetes care and medical outcomes for patients on the South Side of Chicago. Also, in her role as one of two inaugural Faculty Fellows in the Bucksbaum–Siegler Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago Medicine, she explores how racial and cultural barriers impact physician-patient relations and shared decision-making.
Dr. Peek has been an invited speaker to many local and national medical meetings. She serves on the boards of several advocacy organizations and is regularly involved in community-based education activities. In addition, she is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts exploring health care disparities in minority populations.
As principal investigator on two multi-year clinical studies, Dr. Peek aims to improve diabetes care and medical outcomes for patients on the South Side of Chicago. Also, in her role as one of two inaugural Faculty Fellows in the Bucksbaum–Siegler Institute for Clinical Excellence at the University of Chicago Medicine, she explores how racial and cultural barriers impact physician-patient relations and shared decision-making.
Dr. Peek has been an invited speaker to many local and national medical meetings. She serves on the boards of several advocacy organizations and is regularly involved in community-based education activities. In addition, she is the author of more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and abstracts exploring health care disparities in minority populations.
Specialties
Areas of Expertise
- Women's Health
- Preventive Medicine
- Chronic Disease Management
- Health Care Disparities
- Diabetes Prevention
- Breast Cancer Screening
UChicago Medicine Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine - Hyde Park5758 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago IL 606371-888-824-0200
Practicing Since
- 1999
Languages Spoken
- English
Medical Education
- The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Residency
- Stanford Health Care
Other Grad Education
- Johns Hopkins University; University of Chicago
Memberships & Medical Societies
- Cook County Physicians Association
- American College of Physicians
- National Medical Association
- Physicians for a National Health Program
- Central Society for Clinical and Translational Research
- American Diabetes Association
- Physicians for Human Rights
- Society of General Internal Medicine
- American Medical Women~s Association
- American Public Health Association
- American Society of Internal Medicine
News & Research
Insurance
- Aetna Better Health *see insurance page
- Aetna HMO (specialists only)
- Aetna Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- Aetna POS
- Aetna PPO
- BCBS Blue Precision HMO (specialists only)
- BCBS HMO (HMOI) (specialists only)
- BCBS Medicare Advantage HMO & PPO
- BCBS PPO
- Cigna HMO
- Cigna POS
- Cigna PPO
- CountyCare *see insurance page
- Humana Medicare Advantage Choice PPO
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Choice PFFS
- Humana Medicare Advantage Gold Plus HMO
- Medicare
- Multiplan PPO
- PHCS PPO
- United Choice Plus POS/PPO
- United Choice HMO (specialists only)
- United Options (PPO)
- United Select (HMO & EPO) (specialists only)
- United W500 Emergent Wrap
- University of Chicago Health Plan (UCHP)
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Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.
Some of our physicians and health professionals collaborate with external pharmaceutical, medical device, or other medical related entities to develop new treatments and products to improve clinical outcomes for patients. In some instances, the physician has ownership interests in the external entity and/or is compensated for advising or speaking about the entity’s products or treatments. These payments may include compensation for consulting and speaking engagements, equity, and/or royalties for products invented by our physicians. To assure objectivity and integrity in patient care, UChicago Medicine requires all physicians and health professionals to report their relationships and financial interests with external entities on an annual basis. This information is used to review relationships and transactions that might give rise to potential financial conflicts of interest, and when considered to be significant a management plan to mitigate any biases is created.
If you are a patient at UChicago Medicine and would like more information about your physician’s external relationships, please talk with your physician. You may also visit the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments website at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/ . CMS Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes a more transparent and accountable health care system. It houses a publicly accessible database of payments that reporting entities, including drug and medical device companies, make to covered recipients like physicians and hospitals.
Information in the CMS Open Payments database could potentially contain inaccurately reported and out of date payment information. All information is open to personal interpretation, if there are questions about the data, patients and their advocates should speak directly to their health care provider for a better understanding.