Yolanda (Linda) Reid Chassiakos, MD, FAAP

College Campus: A Parents Healthy Checklist

College is an exciting time! Meeting new people, learning new things and possibly living away from home for the 1st time! BUT, with these new exciting learning experiences, come new routines, pressures and responsibilities. Dr. Linda Reid Chassiakos joins the show with some important health and safety tips for sending your child off to college.

Yolanda “Linda” Reid Chassiakos, MD, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA. A graduate of the Georgetown University School of Medicine, Dr. Reid Chassiakos served as a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. She was a medical editor and feature reporter for the evening Eyewitness news at the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC and a medical editor, writer, and host of educational programming on health at Lifetime Medical Television. She developed and hosted programs and features for media such as the NBC Network (Sex, Drugs, and Rock ‘n Roll),Lorimar-Telepictures, and You TV, and was a staff writer for the TV series, Family Medical Center. She is currently the Director of the Klotz Student Health Center at California State University, Northridge.

Melanie Cole, M.S.

9 / 30 / 2009