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Friday, 16 May 2008 |
 Jennifer Shu, MD
Jennifer Shu, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician at Children’s Medical Group, P.C. in Atlanta, Georgia. Her passion is educating parents on all topics related to their children. Dr. Shu is editor-in-chief of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ book Baby & Child Health: The Essential Guide from Birth to 11 Years (DK Publishing, 2004) and co-author of Heading Home with Your Newborn: From Birth to Reality (AAP, 2005). Heading Home has garnered several parenting category book awards, including the 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award from Publisher’s Marketing Association and ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year 2005 First Place Gold Award. Dr. Shu is also co-author of the new book Food Fights: Winning the Nutritional Challenges of Parenthood Armed with Insight, Humor and a Bottle of Ketchup (AAP, 2007).Dr. Shu has been an active leader within the medical profession as a past national chairperson of the young physicians sections for both the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Currently, she serves on the AAP National Conference and Exhibition Planning Group. Dr. Shu’s experiences across the country—reaching from San Francisco and San Diego to New Hampshire, where she was an instructor of pediatrics and director of the normal newborn nursery at the Children’s Hospital at Dartmouth—have taken her from private practice and academics to the pages of US News & World Report, USA Today, national parenting magazines and various newspapers and medical publications. She has been featured frequently as a guest expert on national television and radio programs including CNN, Headline News, MSNBC, the Mike and Juliet Show, ParentsJournal, Health in 30, and Discovery Health Channel’s KidsHealthworks series, as well as in multiple local broadcast news segments. An enthusiastic and experienced writer and public speaker, Dr. Shu is currently a member of the Parents magazine Board of Advisors and an editorial advisor for the AAP’s Healthy Children doctor’s office publication. She is a consultant for a parenting web site, member of a nutrition advisory board, and a script reviewer for a health video production company. She has been a certified child passenger safety technician and has participated in car seat inspection and education events sponsored by the San Diego Police Department and the Injury Prevention Center at Dartmouth.Dr. Shu received her bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Virginia and attended medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. She completed her pediatric training at the University of California in San Francisco, where she also served a year as chief resident, performing educational as well as administrative duties for the residency program.
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