Nimali Fernando, MD, MPH, is a Virginia pediatrician and founder of the nonprofit the Doctor Yum Project, the popular recipe and parenting website, doctoryum.com. The first of its kind, her innovative new practice, Yum Pediatrics, features a teaching kitchen and instructional garden, along with hands-on learning curricula for families, making it a hot spot for nutrition education and cooking instructions. She is also a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Melanie Potock, MA, CCC-SLP, is an international speaker to teens on the topic of feeding babies. Melanie has coached over a thousand parents on how to raise healthy, happy eaters right from the start and has over twenty years of clinical experience helping children with pediatric feeding disorders. She is the coauthor of the award-winning
Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater and author of
Adventures in Veggieland and
Responsive Feeding (forthcoming). Melanie's advice has been shared in a variety of television and print media, including
The New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal,
Washington Post, CNN.com, and
Parents magazine. She lives in Colorado.