Join us this Friday, April 7 at Le Meridien to welcome Dr. Ralph Peeler and hear about the project he is working on with the North Atlanta Rotary Club and many others to help prevent spina bifida. Note there will not be a virtual option for attending.

Dr. Ralph Peeler grew up in Memphis Tennessee. He graduated from Harvard College and Vanderbilt Medical School. He is a graduate of the Columbus Georgia Family Medicine Residency program. After residency, Dr. Peeler practiced Family Medicine in North Mississippi for four years, during which time he delivered almost 400 babies. He returned to Georgia in 1987 to solo practice in Chamblee, GA until 2020. Dr. Peeler reports that sadly, since retirement, his golf handicap has not substantially improved.

Dr. Peeler served as president of the Rotary Club of North Atlanta in 2015-2016 and as the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians president in 1999-2000, using that year to unsuccessfully lobby the state legislature to mandate insurance coverage of vaccines. He has been speaking about and advocating for vaccines for over 20 years. Recently, he has been collaborating with a large group of fellow Rotarians, physicians, and humanitarians to reduce the incidence of spina bifida, an easily prevented severe birth defect still epidemic in many low and middle income countries of the world