Dr. Peters is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He holds dual appointments in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Department of Neurology. He completed his medical school training, psychiatry residency, and neuropsychiatry fellowship at Hopkins before joining the faculty. He is the Director of Clinical Services for Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.

An active clinician, teacher, and researcher, Dr. Peters sees patients in the Acquired Brain Injury Clinic and Memory and Alzheimer’s Treatment Center at Johns Hopkins Bayview. He has been internationally recognized for his research work and has received research funding from the National Institutes of Health, Department of Defense, and National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center. His research focuses on cognitive and other neuropsychiatric symptoms following traumatic brain injury with a specific focus on traumatic brain injury in older adults and neuro-imaging-based biomarkers. 

Dr. Peters is an avid program builder, seeking to create sustainable, scalable, high quality mental health solutions that are technology-driven. Towards this end he is medical director of the Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions Balance program, which offers employer-based mental wellness solutions. Additionally, he is the medical director of Telepsychiatry and Telebehavioral Health Programs at Hopkins, overseeing more than a dozen clinical, research, and educational programs that utilize telemedicine. Dr. Peters is the chief medical officer of Rose Health (rosehealth.com), a technology-driven mental health solution that augments in-person mental healthcare utilizing a patient-facing mobile application and clinician-facing dashboard. Lastly, he is co-founder of the psychiatry entrepreneurship task force at Hopkins, which seeks to promote the entrepreneurial pursuits of faculty within the psychiatry department.