About Laurel
Laurel Mellin is an associate clinical professor of family and community medicine and pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco's School of Medicine and directs The Institute for Health Solutions.
In 1979, she began research that led to the creation of the method, known as developmental skills training (DST) in the scientific literature. She developed The SHAPEDOWN Program for weight problems (www.childobesity.com), then The Solution for adults.
Laurel has written more than 30 books on the method, including the New York Times bestseller, The Pathway. Her work has been featured in Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, Time, and on Good Morning America, The Today Show and CBS Morning Program and Oprah.
Her research and writing has received awards from the American Medical Association, the American Bariatric Society and the U.S. Department of Consumer Education. Laurel has three children and lives in Marin County, California.
