Shelly Vaziri Flais MD FAAP

Shelly Vaziri Flais, MD, FAAP, is a practicing pediatrician, mom of 4, and an assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago. In addition to her clinical practice and faculty responsibilities, she has authored several parenting books with the American Academy of Pediatrics and serves as an AAP spokesperson. Her newest book with the AAP, "Nurturing Boys to Be Better Men; Gender Equality Starts at Home," will be released October 2023. Her other titles include "Raising Twins; Parenting Multiples From Pregnancy Through the School Years" (now in its 3rd edition, winner of multiple awards), "Caring for your School Aged Child," "The Big Book of Symptoms," and has contributed to "Sleep: What Every Parent Needs to Know." She has shared her reality-based parenting approach with national and local television, radio, online, and print news outlets. Her 4 children are now young adults and have served as her greatest teachers.