Dr. Peele is responsible for creating innovative analytics that drive financial and clinical performance including economic modeling, predictive modeling, statistical analysis, and machine learning.

She currently holds faculty appointments in Health Policy and Management and in Psychiatry in the School of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is core faculty at the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and an elected fellow of the Centre for Interuniversity Research and Analysis on Organizations in Montreal, Canada. She has numerous published articles and book chapters. Dr. Peele was the first person chosen by IBM as an IBM Big Data Hero and was voted the 2014 IT News Men & Women of the Year as a top innovator in health care analytics.

Dr. Peele brings 13 years of patient care experience along with 12 years of academic research experience to her position as the leader of health care analytics at the Health Plan. Prior to joining the UPMC in 2006, Dr. Peele was the Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School Of Public Health.