Katie Elizabeth McPeak, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (General Pediatrics)
Medical Director, Health Equity, Primary Care Network, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Faculty Scholar, Policy Lab, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pediatrics
Contact information
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Karabots Primary Care Center
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Karabots Primary Care Center
3401 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 3039159016
Email:
mcpeakke@chop.edu
mcpeakke@chop.edu
Links
Academic Pediatric Association
Katie McPeak, MD Faculty Scholar @ CHOP PolicyLab
CHOP Primary Care network
Academic Pediatric Association
Katie McPeak, MD Faculty Scholar @ CHOP PolicyLab
CHOP Primary Care network
Education
B.S. (Science)
The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
M.D. (Medicine)
Drexel University College of Medicine, 2001.
Permanent linkB.S. (Science)
The Pennsylvania State University, 1997.
M.D. (Medicine)
Drexel University College of Medicine, 2001.
Description of Clinical Expertise
Dr. McPeak is a primary care pediatrician and Medical Director for Health Equity of the CHOP Primary Care Network. Dr. McPeak has over a decade of experience in quality improvement, system redesign, and primary care management in predominantly Medicaid-insured/underserved communities.Dr. McPeak is a certified Spanish-speaking provider. Her goals are to reduce disparities in care for children, and to put the family and patient at the center of care redesign. She has a strong interest in improving care of limited English proficient patients, children with special healthcare needs, and strengthening care teams.
Dr. McPeak's research and academic interests include health equity, reducing disparities in pediatric primary care, and testing innovative care delivery models in underserved populations.
Selected Publications
Priyani Sharma, MPH ; Gabrielle DiFiore, MPH ; Alex Towers ; Michael Curley ; Maura Powell, MPH, MBA ; Katie McPeak, MD ; George Dalembert, MD, MSHP ; Alexander Fiks, MD, MSCE; Aditi Vasan, MD, MSHP : Parent Perspectives on Barriers to and Facilitators of Early Allergen Introduction: A Qualitative Study. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Boston, MA April 2026.Danielle Cullen, MD, MPH, MSHP; Rachel Brown, MPH; Katie McPeak, MD; Jungwon Min, PhD, MS; Bridget E. McGovern, LCSW; Sarah M. Dziedzic, MSW; Joel A. Fein, MD, MPH: Approaches to Identifying Social Needs: The SECURE RCT. Pediatrics e2025073800, March 2026.
DiFiore, G, McPeak, K, Vasan, A, Fiks, A, : Disparities in Early Introduction of Allergenic Foods across a pediatric primary care network Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Honolulu, HI, May 2025 2025.
Brown, R, Cullen, D, Fein, J, McPeak, K: Barriers and Facilitators to Caregiver Comfort with Health-Related Social Needs Data Collection in the Pediatric Clinical Setting. Health Services Research December 2024.
Brown, R, Barouk, N, McPeak, K, Fein, J, Cullen, D : Caregiver Concerns with Health-Related Social Need Data Documentation in the Pediatric EMR, Poster. Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting, Toronto, Canada May 2024.
Gregory, E, White, E, Wu, K, McPeak, K, Fiks, A.: Implementing team-based newborn well care: Perspectives of nurses and physicians. Journal of Pediatric Nursing 65: 22-28, July-August 2022.
Hernandez R, Tanaka K, McPeak K, Thompson D: Resident Training Experiences Providing Spanish-Language Concordant Care: Implications for Growing Health Equity Efforts Within Graduate Medical Education Clinical Pediatrics (Phila) 61(4): 352-361, February 2022 Notes: oi: 10.1177/00099228221074776. Epub 2022 Feb 13.
Craig S, McPeak K, Madu C, Wasserman R, Dalembert G : Health information technology and equity: Applying history’s lessons to tomorrow’s innovations. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care 52(1): 101110, January 2022 Notes: Epub 2021 Dec 30, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cppeds.2021.101110.
Lefchak B, Cushwa A, Kersten H, Courts K, McPeak K : Characterization of social risk factors among newborns seen at an urban pediatric primary care predictive of appointment non-attendance in the first 6 months. Health Equity 6(1): 40-48, January 2022 Notes: DOI: 10.1089/heq.2021.0053.
Cullen D, Wilson-Hall L, McPeak K, Fein J : Pediatric Social Risk Screening: Leveraging Research to Ensure Equity Academic Pediatrics. Epub, 22(2), September 2021 Notes: https://www.academicpedsjnl.net/article/S1876-2859(21)00452-6/fulltext#relatedArticles.