Dr. Heidi Feldman is the Ballinger-Swindells Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics and Chief of the Division of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine, in Stanford California. She earned a PhD at the University of Pennsylvania and then a Medical Degree at University of California San Diego. She completed residency at UCSD and then went on to fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital, under Drs. Melvin Levine, T. Berry Brazelton, and Eli Newberger. Dr. Feldman continues to provide clinical services to children with developmental, behavioral, and mental health issues and their families from the San Francisco Bay area. Her research has focused on language and reading in children with conditions that put development at risk, including deafness, persistent ear infections, autism, and brain injury. She currently studies children born preterm who often experience deficits in language and reading development in the context of structural changes in white matter circuits in the brain. She also conducts research on the management of developmental and behavioral conditions in pediatric primary care. Dr. Feldman has held many leadership positions in the US, including chair of SubBoard of DBP for the American Board of Pediatrics and president of the Society for Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics. She is a current member of the inaugural class of the National Academy of Distinguished Pediatric Educators and lead editor on the fifth edition of the premier textbook within the field, Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, published in December 2022.