Charles Peek, PhD

C.J. Peek, PhD is a professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota. He has focused on harmonizing care, education, and research in academic departments, research and scholarship capacity, organizational effectiveness and leadership development, and productive conversations across disciplines, roles, and organizational areas. He gravitates toward situations where the cacophony of terms and the use of language can confuse and divide or clarify and unify, listening with groups to evolve the shared language needed to reduce ambiguity and confusion while enabling action with their shared work. 

A clinical psychologist trained at the University of Colorado Boulder, he began working toward the integration of behavioral health and primary care as a clinician, program implementer, clinician supervisor, member of research teams, and consultant to agencies and organizations.  He has published and presented on a blend of clinical, organizational, lexical, and leadership topics in family medicine journals and family medicine organizations such as STFM, NAPCRG, ADFM (and their joint Building Research Capacity (BRC) initiative.