Palo Alto, CA–(HISPANIC PR WIRE – BUSINESS WIRE)–August 29, 2005–Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford has available for the media some of the nation’s top back-to-school health experts. Topics that our experts can discuss include back-to-school anxiety, tips for healthy lunches, sleep problems, overloaded backpacks, and the return of chronically ill children to a normal education environment.

Experts include:

— Margo Thienemann, MD, Director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at Packard Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine.

— Monica Holt, Lane Bower and Julie Matel, Clinical Nutritionists at Packard Children’s Hospital.

— Rafael Pelayo, MD, Director of the Pediatric Sleep Service at Packard Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Stanford School of Medicine.

— James Gamble, MD, PhD, pediatric orthopedic surgeon and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Stanford School of Medicine.

— Jeanne Kane, MA, program coordinator for the Hospital Educational Advocacy Liaison (H.E.A.L.) at Packard Children’s Hospital.

About Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Ranked as one of the nation’s top ten pediatric hospitals by U.S. News and World Report, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford is a 264-bed hospital devoted to the care of children and expectant mothers. Providing pediatric and obstetric medical and surgical services and associated with Stanford School of Medicine, Packard Children’s offers patients locally, regionally and nationally the full range of health-care programs and services — from preventive and routine care to the diagnosis and treatment of serious illness and injury. For more information, visit http://www.lpch.org.

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CONTACT:

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital

Robert Dicks

650-497-8364

or

Todd Kleinheinz

650-725-9666