Richard B. Peters, MD

Education

         ·         1970, Bachelor of Arts, Cum Laude, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

• ·         1976,Doctor of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

 Post Graduate Education and Training

• ·         July 1, 1976-June 30, 1977,Internship- Straight Internal Medicine, Sinai Hospital, Baltimore Maryland
• ·         July 1, 1977-June 30, 1978,Resident in Psychiatry, the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital, Towson, Maryland.
• ·         July 1, 1978-June 30, 1981,Resident in Neurology, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC- Mentor: Desmond O’Doherty, M.D.
• ·         July 1, 1981-June 30 1982,Clinical Fellowship in EMG and Neuromuscular Diseases,  University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore Maryland- Mentor: Richard Mayer, M.D.

  In my career of 25 years with Kaiser Permanente, I had both clinical and administrative responsibilities. As the first Kaiser chief of neurology in the Washington area, I was involved in establishing Kaiser’s department of neurology in the Washington region.  My administrative responsibilities included the selection and management of a staff of six board certified neurologists and a board certified physiatrist who practiced at the various Kaiser centers, throughout the Capitol Area region of Maryland, DC, and Virginia. For the purpose of organizing patient care on both a local and regional basis, I was involved in both weekly and monthly meetings with staff and physicians.  The scope of my Kaiser practice included outpatient and hospital diagnosis and management of neurological illnesses. Because of my interest in the psychiatric manifestations of neurological illness, I tended to see a greater percentage of patients who required long term  neurological management. These included patients with TBI, Parkinson’s disease, MS, CIDP, chronic spine pain and chronic headache.   My practice also included a wide variety of common and uncommon neurological conditions including neuropathies, movement disorders, dementia, epilepsy, spine disease, headache, facial pain, cerebrovascular disease.  Patient acuity ranged from severely ill ICU patients to worried headache patients.  I am the recipient of the 2007 Kaiser award for exceptional performance. This is an award given by Kaiser to only a very select few of its most respected physicians.

I joined the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology in December 2009, and became the second neurology attending on the Brain Injury Unit at the University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic  Institute.  In October 2013, I was appointed co-director of the Brain Injury Unit. My clinical responsibilities include managing patients on a busy inpatient brain injury rehabilitation unit as well as staffing an active EMG and Neurology outpatient clinic. In my role as co director of the BUI, I assist with the administrative management of the BIU. In my role as an attending I provide neurological and rehabilitative care to patients with brain injury, stroke, and other neurologic conditions. I regularly read EEGs and perform EMG studies. Recently, due to staffing issues I have also providing attending services on the Stroke Unit. I also teach medical students, residents, and fellows.  I am a member of the medical executive committee and the ethics committee at the University of Maryland Rehabilitation and Orthopaedic Institute

Teaching Service

·         2000-2004, I served as a preceptor in the outpatient neurology clinic at Kaiser Kensington center. Teaching junior and senior medical students of the Uniformed Services Medical School who were mentored for a  4 week clinical clerkship in outpatient neurology.  1 student  4 hours/day for 4 weeks, 3 months/year.

• ·         2000, 2001, Mock board examiner:  Assisted in conducting mock neurology oral board examination for Uniformed Services neurology residents at Walter Reed and the Bethesda Naval Hospitals.
• ·         February 2010, I have assisted my colleagues in the teaching of a PM&R resident from Johns Hopkins  Medical School, assigned to the teaching service on the traumatic brain injury unit at Kernan Hospital.
• ·         July 2010- Present, I have assisted with the teaching of University of Maryland Medical Students, Residents and fellows rotating through the UMROI Brain Injury Unit.
• ·         In 2014 and again in 2015, I lectured University of Maryland Pain Management Fellows on the interpretation and clinical use of EMG/ NCV studies.

Traumatic Brain Injury, Electromyography