Pediatrician for Healthy Kids
Christine Wood, M.D., F.A.A.P., C.L.E.
Board Certified in Pediatrics
Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics
Certified Lactation Educator
Private Practice at El Camino Pediatrics
Author of How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It!
Development of the Kids Weigh to Go program
Domain Champion for the Media and Marketing
Committee for the Childhood Obesity Initiative
San Diego State University research consultant for grant
in preventing childhood obesity in recreation centers
Member of the USANA Scientific Advisory Board
Dr. Christine Wood is a practicing pediatrician in San Diego with interests in healthy nutrition for children and the environmental and nutritional impact on health and disease. She is the author of the book, How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It! (3rd printing) and maintains web sites at www.mykidsdoctorvisit.com and www.kidseatgreat.com . Kids Weigh to Go is her program targeting families with overweight children.
Dr. Wood lectures to physicians and other health professionals globally on the topic of nutritional medicine for children and speaks on healthy lifestyle practices to parents and children. Her articles have been published in Newsweek and Great Life Magazine. Her interviews have been featured in publications including: Parents, Parenting, The Wall Street Journal, Redbook, Fit Pregnancy, Family Life, among others. She has conducted television media tours to discuss infant nutrition. As a frequent guest on radio shows nationwide and as a panelist on a television talk show, The Producer’s Showcase, she delivers a message about the critical need for proper nutrition and the avoidance of obesity for children. She frequently appears as a nutrition expert for families on local San Diego television station, KUSI and has had guest appearances on the PBS syndicated show, Real Savvy Moms.
She is the Domain Champion of the Media and Marketing committee for the San Diego Childhood Obesity Initiative (www.OurCommunityOurKids.org). She is a research consultant for San Diego State University with a 5-year grant (started March 2006) on preventing childhood obesity in the recreation center settings. USANA Health Sciences, an international nutritional company, chose her to serve on their Scientific Advisory Council in 1998 and she has been a past chairperson and is a current board member. She graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and completed her pediatric residency and chief residency at Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles.
Christine Wood, M.D.
