Anne Peters, MD

Anne L. Peters, MD, is a professor of clinical medicine, clinical scholar at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. She treats patients in Beverly Hills and in East Los Angeles and has a strong interest in reducing health care disparities for people with diabetes. She has been a PI on over 40 grants, has authored over 250 articles and 4 books and has given lectures around the world. She has been part of multiple American Diabetes Association (ADA)/European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) guideline writing groups on type 2 diabetes and was the co-chair of the ADA/EASD type 1 diabetes guideline writing committee. Additionally, she was the Chair of the Endocrine Society Technology Guideline Writing Group.

Currently she is a member of the LA County Department of Health Services Endocrinology Work Group, creating policy for the management of diabetes in LA County. She is also a member of the EASD Committee on Clinical Affairs, is the co-chair of the NIH Behavioral Maintenance Planning group and the NIH initiative on the use of devices in people with type 2 diabetes. She was a recent FDA panelist on “Understanding Priorities for the Use of Digital Health Technologies to Support Clinical Trials for Drug Development and Review” and a panelist on an FDA Patient Engagement Advisory Committee (PEAC). She was also a panelist for a CDC meeting on diabetes devices. Finally, she is a consultant to the FTC and a member of the scientific advisory board for Vertex, guiding the development of stem-cell derived islet cells for the cure of diabetes.

She has been awarded the ADA Outstanding Physician Clinician Award, the Bernardo Alberto Houssay Award from the National Minority Quality Forum and the Laureate Award for Public Service from the Endocrine Society.