Meet Our Doctors

"Dr. Joe" Peterman was the second of six children and grew up in Dallas attending St. Rita and Jesuit College Prep School. After an undergraduate education at Baylor University he returned to Dallas to earn his medical degree at UT Southwestern. He interned at the Childrens Hospital of Oklahoma in OKC and completed a residency in pediatrics back in Dallas at Childrens Medical Center. Upon finishing the formal part of his education he joined the pediatrician from whom he received his care and his shots at an office on LBJ freeway. This association lasted three years and was followed by the opening of a solo practice in Preston Center on June 1, 1993 where he maintains an office based primary care practice. Dr. Joe and Rebeca married at the end of medical school and now have six children (five daughters and a youngest son).

"Dr. Jen" Wheeler was raised in Houston where she attended Klein Forest High School. After receiving an undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts she returned to Texas to earn her medical degree at UT Southwestern. She interned and completed her residency training at Children's Medical Center in Dallas. Upon conclusion of her residency, she joined Dr. Joe at Preston Centre Pediatrics in August of 2000. Dr. Jen and her husband Scott married in 1996, her two sons, Jack and Sam, were born in the summers of 2000 and 2003.