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 stations.

She is the Co-Chair for the San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative (www.OurCommunityOurKids.org).  She has been a research consultant for San Diego State University 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.