Authors and Editors

Author: Robert Ferry, Jr., MD

Editor: Melissa Conrad Stoppler, MD

References: American Obesity Association. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; "Childhood Overweight". American Heart Association; "Our 2006 Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations"; "Dietary Guidelines for Healthy Children."

Previous contributing Authors and Editors: Author: Rick Kulkarni, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine; Director of Informatics, Department of Emergency Medicine, UCLA/Olive View-UCLA Medical Center.

Coauthor(s): Kathryn L Hale, MS, PA-C, Medical Writer, eMedicine.com, Inc.

Editors: Steven Schwarz, MD, Chairman, Department of Pediatrics, Long Island College Hospital; Professor of Pediatrics, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center; Francisco Talavera, PharmD, PhD, Senior Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine; Jonathan Adler, MD, Instructor, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital.