Dr. Christine Wood is a pediatrician with expertise in the management of the medical complications of eating disorders and is a Certified Eating Disorder Specialist (CEDS) as designated by the International Association of Eating Disorder Specialists (IAEDP).

She has been in private pediatric practice in North County San Diego since 1990 until 2022 and then had her own practice for two years as an eating disorder consultant.  She is currently the Medical Director for the residential eating disorder treatment center at Center for Discovery in Del Mar since 2013.  In 2022, she was appointed as the National Physician Liaison for the eating disorder division of Center for Discovery.  

She has published several articles in magazines and in medical journals.  Of note, she was a co-author of a Clinical Report published in September 2016 in Pediatrics, titled “Preventing Eating Disorders and Obesity in Adolescents.”  She is also the author of the book, How to Get Kids to Eat Great & Love It.

She graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School and went on to Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles for her pediatric residency.