Christine (Ito) Wood, M.D. is currently a practicing pediatrician and lactation educator at El Camino Pediatrics in Encinitas, California since 1990. She attended the University of Detroit for her undergraduate degree in chemistry and received her medical degree from the University of Michigan. She completed her pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. She was Chief Resident there and then worked in the emergency room at Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. After three years doing pediatric emergency room medicine she went into private practice in Santa Monica, California. She relocated to the San Diego area in 1990 and joined her current practice. She received her lactation educator certification from the University of California, San Diego in 1991.

In 1996, she became interested in the role of nutritional supplementation in diseases and started doing extensive research on the subject. The following year she was honored to be selected by an international nutritional company as one of four physicians on their Medical Advisory Board.

Dr. Wood has become a spokesperson regarding the role of nutrition and nutritional supplementation in the lives of children today. She has lectured on the subject throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

In 1997 she launched the Call Your Pediatrician website. She is the author of a book, called How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It!, published in 1999 by KidsEatGreat, Inc. You can check out her other website at www.kidseatgreat.com. She teaches workshops for parents on healthy feeding ideas for kids. She also lectures to medical professionals on the role of nutrition and disease in children.

She has appeared as a guest on numerous radio shows and has been featured in magazines such as Family Life, Wasatch Parent Magazine, The Godly Business Woman, and the San Diego Business Journal. She has been a guest writer for Newsweek magazine about the "on call" life of a pediatrician.  Redbook magazine will feature her advice on healthy eating in 2001.

She lives in Southern California with her husband and son.