Dr. Christine Wood is a pediatrician with a special interest in nutrition for children and teens.  She is the author of the book, How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It and her articles and interviews have been published in Newsweek, Parenting, Redbook, among many others.  She has been a frequent speaker at medical conferences, schools, preschools and community events on the topic of nutrition, including talks on eating disorders, obesity, school wellness policies, motivational interviewing and the impact of environmental toxins on health.

She has been in private pediatric practice in North County San Diego since 1990 and is currently in practice at Coast Pediatrics Carmel Valley.  She also served as the Co-Chair for the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative from 2009 to 2015. She serves as the Medical Consultant for a residential eating disorder treatment center in La Jolla.  As part of the American Academy of Pediatrics Institute for Healthy Childhood Weight Steering Committee, she was co-author of a Clinical Report published in September 2016 in Pediatrics, titled “Preventing Eating Disorders and Obesity in Adolescents.”

She graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and went on to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles for her pediatric residency.

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