Rebecka Peebles

Clinical Focus

• Adolescent Medicine

Administrative Appointments

• Member, Strategic Planning Committee , (2005– 2006 )
• Member, Career Development Subcommittee, Child Health Research Program, Stanford University , (2005– present )
• Member, Adolescent Bariatric Surgery Board , (2004– present )
• Director, The WEIGHT Lab , (2003– present )
• Director of Resident and Student Education, Division of Adolescent Medicine , (2003– present )

Honors and Awards

• Young Investigators Initiative, National Bone and Joint Decade (February 2009)
• National Scientist Development Award, American Heart Association (December 2006)
• Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institutes of Health (July 2006)
• Innovations in Patient Care Grant, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital (June 2004)
• Loan Repayment Program Award, National Institutes of Health (Sept 2003)
• Outstanding Fellow Award, Lucile Packard Childrens Hospital Pediatric Residency Program - Stanford (2002)
• Bruce Hubbard Stewart Award for Humanistic Medicine, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1998)
• Humanistic Values in Medicine Award, Women Faculty of the School of Medicine - CWRU (1996)

Professional Education

• Board Certification: Adolescent Medicine, American Board of Pediatrics (2003)
• Board Certification: General Pediatrics, American Board of Pediatrics (1999)
• SUMC - Graduate Medical Education (2002) CA
• Cleveland Clinic (1999) OH
• Cleveland Clinic (1997) OH
• Case Western Reserve University (1996) OH
• N/A, Stanford University Adolescent Medicine Fellowship (2003)
• N/A, Cleveland Clinic Foundation Pediatrics (1999)
• M.D., Case Western Reserve University Medicine (1996)
• B.A., Amherst College; Amherst, MA Neuroscience (1991)

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Pediatrics

Web Site Links

• www.stanford.edu/~rpeebles

Research Interests

Medical outcomes (bone/endocrine, cardiovascular) of disordered eating behaviors in adolescents of diverse weights; Pro-eating disorder website usage in eating disordered adolescents; Binge eating and purging in overweight populations; Web-based behavioral treatment of obesity in adolescents

Publications

• Adolescent obesity: etiology, office evaluation, and treatment. Peebles R,  Adolesc Med State Art Rev.  2008; 19 (3): 380-405, vii
• Abdominal migraine and treatment with intravenous valproic Acid. Tan V,  Sahami AR, Peebles R, Shaw RJ.  Psychosomatics.  2006 Jul-Aug; 47 (4): 353-5
• Methamphetamine use following bariatric surgery in an adolescent. Dutta S,  Morton J, Shepard E, Peebles R, Farrales-Nguyen S, Hammer LD, Albanese CT.  Obes Surg.  2006; 16 (6): 780-2
• Surfing for thinness: a pilot study of pro-eating disorder Web site usage in adolescents with eating disorders. Wilson JL,  Peebles R, Hardy KK, Litt IF.  Pediatrics.  2006; 118 (6): e1635-43
• Is Weight Loss Surgery Right For You? Apple RF,  Lock J, Peebles R.  Treatments That Work Series: Oxford University Press.  2006;
• Preparing Your Patient for Weight Loss Surgery: A Guide for the Mental Health Professional Apple, RF,  Lock J, Peebles R.  Treatments That Work Series: Oxford University Press.  2006;
• Preparing for Weight Loss Surgery: What You Need to Know Apple RF,  Lock J, Peebles R.  Treatments That Work Series: Oxford University Press.  2006;
• How do children with eating disorders differ from adolescents with eating disorders at initial evaluation? Peebles R,  Wilson JL, Lock JD.  J Adolesc Health.  2006; 39 (6): 800-5
• Factitious disorder and malingering in adolescent girls: case series and literature review. Peebles R,  Sabella C, Franco K, Goldfarb J.  Clin Pediatr (Phila).  2005; 44 (3): 237-43
• Childhood Obesity Peebles R,  Hammer L (editor Bronner, F).  Chapter for: Nutritional aspects and clinical management of chronic disorders and diseases.  2005; in press
• Biochemical and pharmacological factors causing induction and suppression of germination of trichosporon beigelii Walsh TJ,  Kelly P, Peebles R, Lee J, Lecciones J, Pizzo PA.  J Med Vet Mycol.  1994; 32 (2): 123-32