Dr. Peggy S. Eicher received her MD from Emory University School of Medicine. She did her Pediatric residency and Neurodevelopmental pediatrics fellowship in Baltimore, MD at the University of Maryland Hospital and the Kennedy Krieger Institute respectively. She started a multidisciplinary feeding program at Kennedy Krieger and subsequently at the Children's Seashore House of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia before coming to be Medical Director of the Center for Pediatric Feeding and Swallowing at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital. She has lectured, published, and conducted research in the field of pediatric feeding.