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Douglas M. Peterson, M.D.
By Mayo Clinic staff
Douglas M. Peterson, M.D.
Dr. Douglas Peterson of Mayo Clinic in Arizona brings a worldwide perspective to his practice and MayoClinic.com.
Dr. Peterson, from Cody, Wyo., has an M.B.A. from Arizona State University, is a Fellow of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is also a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. He has been with Mayo Clinic since 1990 and is chair of the Division of Consultative Medicine. He is a Vice Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. He also has special interests in sports medicine, wellness and fitness, and the business of medicine.
He is an assistant professor of medicine at Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Dr. Peterson was the Los Angeles Dodgers team spring training physician from 1975 to 1990 and in 1995 was in the Citizen Ambassador Program for People-to-People to Australia and New Zealand for Sports Medicine.
Dr. Peterson, Scottsdale liaison with Mayo Clinic's publishing arm for several years, sees patients from around the world.
"Our group within Mayo Clinic has a truly unique and rewarding practice — internal medicine for the world," he says. "Now MayoClinic.com has the potential to extend Mayo quality health care information to our international patients, to our patients-to-be, to physicians and to the Internet world."
