Paul Peebles is a husband, father, grandfather, and renowned Pediatrician and Pediatric Hematology-Oncologist. He trained at Harvard's Boston Children's Hospital and has studied under Dr. T. Berry Brazelton (Harvard) and Dr. Benjamin Spock at University Hospitals (Cleveland). He has cared for tens of thousands of children and their parents since 1967. As a researcher, he has worked at the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm) and, as a Senior Investigator, at the National Institutes of Health (Washington, DC). He is the author of many articles, some published in Nature and Science and is a member of the prestigious Society for Pediatric Research. He has been on the faculties of Harvard University School of Medicine, the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (Baltimore), and Georgetown University's School of Medicine (Washington, D.C.). He is currently a Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at Children's National Medical Center of George Washington University's School of Medicine (Washington, D.C.) and Founder and Director Emeritus of The Pediatric Care Center and Young Adult Care Center in Bethesda, Maryland.
In The Washingtonian magazine his peers have elected him as "one of the area's leading primary care physicians."
He commutes between Bethesda, Maryland; Haverford, Pennsylvania; and Fiskebäckskil, Sweden.