Joey Skelton MD MS FAAP

Joseph A. “Joey” Skelton, MD, MS, FAAP, FTOS is a Professor of Pediatrics at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He is the Director of Brenner FIT (Families In Training), an interdisciplinary pediatric obesity treatment, prevention, research, and educational program. He serves as the Director of the Center for Prevention Science in Child and Family Health, Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Pediatrics, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Childhood Obesity. He is board certified in Pediatrics and Obesity Medicine. His research and clinical work has focused on helping children and families be happy and healthy. He has secured over ten million dollars in research funding, given over fifty national and international presentations, and published over one hundred peer-reviewed manuscripts. He and his wife Kristen, a critical care pharmacist, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and have two adult sons. He enjoys teaching cooking classes that are both fun and informative to anyone who will listen.