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Director of Research, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
Director, Center of Excellence in Primary Care
Associate Professor
University of Minnesota Medical School 

Dr. Peterson is a tenured associate professor and is the director of research in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and director of the Center of Excellence in Primary Care at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has directed the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians Research Network for 15 years and served two terms as chair of the Federation of Practice Based Research Network representing over 8,500 primary care physicians involved in practice-based research. Dr. Peterson obtained his B.A. degree from Carleton College in Northfield, MN, his M.D. degree from the Mayo Medical School in Rochester, MN, an F.R.C.S. (Ed) from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, UK, an F.A.A.F.P. from the American Academy of Family Physicians, and his M.P.H. in epidemiology from the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

He is principal investigator for the electronic Primary Care Research Network (ePCRN) sponsored by the NIH Roadmap: Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise, and serves as chair of the network development group for the NIH Roadmap. He is site-principle investigator for the ACCORD Trial, a large diabetes clinical trial sponsored jointly by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI, NIH), and NIDDK. He is principal investigator of a task order contract for Primary Care-Practice Based Research Networks (PBRNs) awarded to the Minnesota Academy of Family Physicians by the AHRQ. He is the site principal investigator of the C3D Adoption project from CaBIG, NCI.