About Dr. Jen
"Dr. Jen is one crazy good pediatrician who is great at rearing healthy kids. I trust her with all things kid-like. She keeps it real and you can relate to her just like her patients and parents do. She is Dr. Mom to many." -- Dr. Mehmet Oz
JENNIFER TRACHTENBERG, MD
CHILD HEALTH AND WELLNESS EXPERT
PEDIATRICIAN, MOTHER AND AUTHOR
Pediatrician Jen Trachtenberg, MD – known to her patients as Dr. Jen – is a nationally renowned parenting expert, board-certified pediatrician, and has maintained a successful private pediatric practice in New York City for over 25 years. She is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics, and mother of three children. Dr. Jen has appeared numerous times on NBC, TODAY show, CNN, Fox News, ABC World News Tonight as well as on The View and The Doctors, contributes regularly with health and parenting topics, including child development, autism spectrum disorder, newborn care, nutrition, childhood obesity, vaccines and sleep issues to Parents Magazine, Romper.com, Today.com First for Women Magazine, NY Times-Parenting, Fatherly, The Bump, Your Teen Magazine, USWeekly (Celebrity Baby Expert), Care.com and Good Housekeeping. She has published two parenting books, The Smart Parent's Guide to Getting Your Kids through Check Ups, Illnesses and Accidents (2010), and Good Kids, Bad Habits: The RealAge Guide to Raising Healthy Children (2007) and now her one of a kind, video parenting manual Pediatrician In Your Pocket .
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 well-being, while focusing on improving social and environmental factors to reduce the risk of chronic disease in adulthood.
As a pediatric authority in the care and treatment of children from birth to young adulthood, Dr. Jen is passionate about helping moms and dads be the best parents they can be, which has lead her to the creation of the video series Pediatrician in Your Pocket. She is proud to be the expert in this essential one stop parenting series created for new parents. Her easy to follow parenting tips educate new parents with everything they want to know and may not know they’re missing. Dr. Jen is there for you with expert advice 24/7 any time day or night for busy parents on the go.
During her free time, Dr. Jen enjoys reading, yoga, pilates, nature walks, bicycling, and swimming. She lives on Long Island with her husband and three children.
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