She is the Ellen H. Block Professor for Health Justice and Associate Vice Chair for Research Faculty Development at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine.
[4] As president of the Black Student Alliance at Vanderbilt, she fought to have Hall W. Thompson ousted from the school's board due to his white's only Shoal Creek Club.
[1] As a student at Johns Hopkins, Peek spent 15 days visiting indigenous Mayan populations in remote communities across Guatemala.
Her research team collected quantitative data by asking questions about patient-provider communications, trust, diabetes knowledge and history, and their confidence in managing the disease.
[13] Peek and her colleague Marshall Chin were co-appointed as directors of the national program office of Bridging the Gap: Reducing Disparities in Diabetes Care.
[15] Her efforts were recognized by CME Outfitters, LLC who appointed her to Chair their Educational Roundtable on Unconscious Bias and Disparities in Healthcare.