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Jennifer Trachtenberg, MD- known to her patients as Dr. Jen - is a nationally renowned parenting expert, board-certified pediatrician, and has maintained a successful private practice at Carnegie Hill Pediatrics for over 20 years. She earned her medical degree in 1993 at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine and continued to completed her pediatric residency there as well. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Jen has appeared numerous times on NBC's TODAY show, CNN, FOX News, and contributes regularly about health and parenting topics, including child development, childhood obesity and sleep issues to Parents Magazine, Baby Chat TV, Fatherly, The Bump and RosiePope.com. She has published two parenting books, The Smart Parent's Guide to Getting Your Kids Through Check Ups, Illness and Accidents (2010), and Good Kids, Bad Habits: The Real Age Guide to Raising Healthy Children (2007). Dr Jen's mission is to maximize the potential that is within every child. Her lifework as a pediatrician and parenting expert emphasizes the importance of a child's emotional, behavioral and physical wellbeing while focusing on improving social and environmental factors to reduce the risk of chronic disease in adulthood.