Peggy Spencer holds a BA from the University of California Santa Cruz and an MD from the University of Arizona. She completed a residency at the University of New Mexico, is board certified in family medicine, and is currently employed at UNM as staff physician at the Student Health Center and adjunct faculty at the School of Medicine. She writes a column for the New Mexico Daily Lobo newspaper answering reader-submitted health questions, contributes articles to UNM Parent Matters and UNM Today, and blogs at www.pegspot.blogspot.com. Peg is married with two children and lives in Albuquerque. Recipient of the SouthWest Writers Award for best essay in 2006, she'll be leaving her forties this year.