Harley Rotbart, M.D. is a nationally-recognized parenting expert, author, speaker, and educator. He has been a Pediatrics specialist for the past 30 years and is Professor and Vice Chairman of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado. The author of more than 175 medical and scientific publications, he has also written three bestselling books for parents and families. His most recent, No Regrets Parenting – Turning Long Days and Short Years into Cherished Moments with Your Kids (Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2012), was the featured cover story in Parents magazine (March, 2012); editor-in-chief Dana Points wrote, “Dr. Rotbart’s book turned my head around.” The book has also been endorsed by presidents of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, and parenting experts worldwide (to read all the reviews, visit www.noregretsparenting.com).  Dr. Rotbart has been named to Best Doctors in America every year since 1996, as well as receiving numerous other national awards for research, teaching, and clinical work. He serves on the Advisory Boards of Parents Magazine and Parents.com and is a regular consultant to ABCnews.com.

Dr. Rotbart regularly speaks to large national audiences of parents, school, and youth sports organizations, as well as to community groups around the country, and national professional organizations of physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals. His broad platform as a parenting and children’s health authority has been enhanced by his many media appearances on national TV, radio, print, online and mommy blogs. In addition, Dr. Rotbart recently participated in two children’s health satellite media tours with former American Idol finalists (Brooke White, 2009; Danny Gokey, 2010). Really. That American Idol.

The author and his wife, Sara, are the parents of three kids, ages 19-24, on whom he continues to practice what he preaches.

For more about Dr. Rotbart’s No Regret’s Parenting approach, visit www.noregretsparenting.com, and the author’s official site: www.harleyrotbart.com.

Dr. Rotbart welcomes you to follow him on Facebook (“Harley Rotbart”) and on Twitter (@NoRegretsParent).