1996-present    Manager, BAY Health Plan Resource Center/Special Needs Population

1993-present   Associate Director of Community Outreach Programs, University of South Alabama, Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center, Mobile, Alabama

1982-96 Chief Executive Officer, Sickle Cell Disease Association of America – Mobile Chapter, Inc.

1977-82 Statistic and Research/Public Relations for Area Physicians in Medical Records, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama

Chairperson - Special Needs steering committee this committiee provided oversight of the identification and development of the health care delivery system for BAY Health plan members with special needs.

Member - Care coordination team assisted in the development of an innovative care coordination program to address the Medical and basic needs of bay health plan member with special needs.

Member - Welfare reform task force life skills committee

Chairperson – BAY Health Plan Monthly Networking Committee this committee provided a forum to share information with community agencies about resources in availvle in the community.

Lower Alabama Genetic Task Force, 1985

Mobile County Health Education Round Table, 1984

Mobile United, Health Services Committee 1986 -- 1989

Alabama Association for Sickle Cell Disease, State Treasurer, 1983-1987, Program Chairperson, 1993-1995

Governor’s Give Five Program, Chairperson Minority Awareness Committee, 1986, Executive Committee, 1989

Mobile Pre-school for the Sensory Impaired Board of Directors, Personnel Committee, 1986 -- 1992

American Red Cross Task Force, Minority Focused Blood Drive Campaign, "For the Love of Us" 1994

Big Brother/Big Sister Program - Mobile Chapter, Board of Director, Program and Personnel Committees (currently serving)

The Martin Luther King Humanitarian Award (First Congressional Voters League), 1985

The Tri County Sickle Cell Anemia Association, Community Services Award, 1984

Appointed Honorary Lieutenant Colonel Aide-De-Camp [in the Alabama State Militia by The Governor of Alabama, 1985

Mobile City Council Recognition For Community Service, 1986

Listed in the Marquis 1989-90 Edition of Who’s Who of America Women

Special Recognition and Participation Award from The National Association For Sickle Cell Disease, 1987

Appointed by Governor of Alabama to Serve as Chairperson of the Governor’s Conference on Volunteerism, 1989

Nominated for the 1988 "Kool Achiever Award"

Presented with the University of South Alabama Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center’s Service Award, 1990

Gayfers Department Store Career Club, outstanding career woman, 1997

Yang Y, MD, Andrews S, Bright E, Peterson R and Shad A, Ph.D. "Factors Affecting The Follow-up Rate of Infants with a Hemoglobinopathy Trait in a Newborn Screening and Follow-up Program", 1991

Peterson R, Vossel J, Assistant Administrator Development of Training Manual for New Interns, U.S.A. Medical Center, 1982

Psychosocial Research Past, Present and Future, Kermit Nash Ph.D., 1994

"Networking with Community Resources to Develop a Model Vocational Training and Career Assistance Program for Persons with Sickle Cell Disease," National Sickle Cell Centers Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 1993

"Community Based Comprehensive Follow-up Network for Newborn Screening" National Association for Sickle Cell Disease, 1992, Washington, D. C.

"Career Assistance Factors Affecting Employment of Individuals With Sickle Cell Disease in the Gulf Coast Alabama Region" James A. Johnson, Rose M. Peterson, National Institute of Health Sickle Cell Centers Meeting, 1990

"An Evaluation of a Client Oriented Summer Camp Program," Rose Peterson, Susan Andrews, Gertrude Small, National Institute of Health Sickle Cell Centers Meeting, 1991

Community Based Programs: "Realignment of Priorities as we Approach the Year 2000" Rose Peterson National Institute of Health Sickle Cell Centers Meeting, 1991