UAB Professor and Chair of the Department of Pediatrics Sergio Stagno, MD, and Peter W. Glaeser, MD, professor and director of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, announce the appointment of Melissa L. Peters, MD, as assistant professor.

An honors graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Dr. Peters completed her MD degree at Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, followed by a pediatrics residency at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. She is board certified in pediatrics.

After being in private practice for 3 years, Dr. Peters completed a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia, and has additional training in forensic pediatrics.

Dr. Peters' clinical interests center on child abuse and neglect, and she will be working to develop and expand child maltreatment services at Children's Hospital. Her current research focuses on the physical abuse of children.

Dr. Peters may be reached at 939-6040 for academic and administrative calls; e-mail mpeters@peds.uab.edu.