Miriam Kaufman, BSCN, MD, FRCP is a staff physician with the Division of Adolescent Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children and associate professor, Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Toronto. She has been working with teens for 18 years, and is the author of Easy For You to Say: Q and A for Teens Living with Chronic Illness or Disability and The Overweight Child: Promoting Fitness and Self-Esteem (Firefly 1999).