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Provider Training Program
For decades, pediatric care has relied on numbers—growth charts, percentiles, and BMI—as shorthand for health. Yet mounting evidence and lived clinical experience reveal a sobering truth: weight-centered conversations in childhood can leave lasting psychological imprints, contributing to body dissatisfaction, anxiety, disordered eating, and avoidance of medical care. In a world where children are already inundated with appearance-focused messaging, the exam room often becomes an unintended echo chamber for shame. The My One-of-a-Kind Body provider training is an evidence-informed program designed to help pediatric clinicians deliver health-based, developmentally appropriate care without reinforcing weight stigma.
Tis training supports providers in examining how routine clinical language, screening practices, and well-intentioned counseling can unintentionally shape a child’s body image, health behaviors, and long-term relationship with medical care. The program provides concrete strategies for shifting from weight-focused messaging to whole-child, behavior-centered conversations that preserve trust, safety, and engagement in the clinical setting.
The training can be delivered as a live or recorded provider education session led by Dr. Whitney Casares, with optional companion content for parent education, supporting continuity of care, improved patient trust, and more meaningful, sustainable health conversations over time.
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WHITNEY CASARES, MD
CEO AND FOUNDER
Whitney Casares, MD, MPH, FAAP, is a practicing board-certified pediatrician, author, and founder of Modern Mommy Doc and Raising Body-Confident Kids. Through her clinical expertise and lived experience as a mom, she helps families raise emotionally and physically healthy kids without falling into the traps of perfectionism or pressure.
Her most recent book, My One-of-a-Kind Body, gives children a science-backed, empowering introduction to how their bodies work and why every body is worthy of care and respect. It's part of her larger mission to help families move beyond shame and unrealistic expectations toward real health, compassion, and confidence.
Dr. Whitney is also the author of Doing It All and The Working Mom Blueprint, and is a nationally recognized voice on pediatric health, maternal well-being, and practical parenting strategies. Her expertise spans the public health, direct patient care, and media worlds. Her work has been featured by outlets like The New York Times, Forbes, and Fortune.
She holds a Masters of Public Health in Maternal and Child Health from The University of California, Berkeley, and a Journalism degree from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, and a Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Vermont. She completed her pediatric residency at Stanford University.
Dr. Whitney sees patients from across the United States as a Maven Clinic provider. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and two daughters.