After over 30 years working as a pediatrician and director of the Pediatric Care Center in Bethesda, MD, Dr. Paul Peebles retired on June 14, 2017.

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Dr. Peebles founded the practice in 1985. “I decided to start the practice with the goal of offering really comprehensive pediatric care to a community that would really appreciate it,” Dr. Peebles says.

 

Dr. Peebles received his medical degree from Case Western Reserve University and completed his pediatric internship at University Hospitals (Cleveland) where his preceptor was Dr. Benjamin Spock. He fulfilled his residency at Harvard’s Children’s Hospital Medical Center (Boston), training with Dr. T. Berry Brazelton. He is Board Certified in both Pediatrics and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology with a special interest in Behavioral Pediatrics.

 

Dr. Peebles served as a Clinical Associate, Staff Associate, and Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health, and performed additional research at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm) and at Children’s Hospital Medical Center. He has been on the faculties of Harvard University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and Georgetown University’s School of Medicine. He is a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s National Medical Center of George Washington University’s School of Medicine. Dr. Peebles belongs to eight professional societies, including the prestigious Society for Pediatric Research. Dr. Peebles is a writer-scientist with many publications including articles with primary authorship published in Nature and Science. In Washingtonian magazine, his peers have elected him as “one of the area’s leading primary care physicians.”