Dr. Joanna Dolgoff | Expert

Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. is a pediatrician, child obesity specialist, member of the Pediatric Task Force for the American Board of Obesity Medicine and author of "Red Light, Green Light, Eat Right." She is the medical director of Camp Shane, the nation's longest-running weight loss camp. Dolgoff, her program and many of her patients have been featured on "Today," "Good Morning America," "The Early Show," "Fox & Friends," "Nightline," "700 Club," "Extra," "America's Newsroom," "Inside Edition," the Discovery Fit & Health channel, Lifetime and most major news outlets, including CNN and MSNBC.

Dolgoff has been written about in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Seattle Times, The Los Angeles Times, Vogue, Redbook, Parent Magazine, Parenting and Shape. Children and teens from 46 different states and four countries have lost weight with her online weight loss program (http://redlightgreenlighteatright.com). Dolgoff has offices in Manhattan, Queens and throughout Long Island, New York.

She was raised in Roslyn, New York. Dolgoff attended Princeton University, NYU School of Medicine and completed her pediatric residency training at Columbia Presbyterian's Children's Hospital of New York. She has previously worked as a private practice pediatrician and is a board certified fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. While in college and medical school, she also worked for four years as an aerobics instructor.