Dr. Christine Dumas is a consumer health and lifestyle reporter and author. Since 1996, her stories have appeared on NBC News Today and NBC News Weekend Edition Today.

Since 2003, she has been a regularly featured medical correspondent on Weekend Live on Fox News Channel.

Christine is the national spokesperson for Kellogg’s Healthy Beginnings campaign. She also currently serves as a senior adviser to the Center for Health Transformation in Washington, DC.   In addition to her clinical training, she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from UCLA. She has served as an advisor to Congressional committees addressing the lifestyle issues that matter most to American families.

Christine started her broadcasting career as a health correspondent on ABC’s Home Show and was a health correspondent for Home and Family. She is regularly featured on the Sirius Stars Network, where she regularly comments on topical issues across medicine, lifestyle and the currency of conversation. She has been featured on both Oprah and The View.

Christine’s upcoming second book, The Weight is Over (Wiley and Sons), due out in September 2009, shows the many facets of her expertise.  In this book, she addresses breakthrough science and advances surrounding sleep, stress and weight loss that might contradict everything you thought you knew about fat, carbs and exercise. She provides the real answers and a simple path to the healthy lifestyle that we all want but that always seems to be just out of our reach.

Christine was the keynote speaker for the Speaking of Women's Health National Tour, where she covered the latest trends in health, lifestyle and fitness, delivering that message to thousands of women across the United States. She has also served as a national spokesperson and strategic planning consultant for the American Medical Association's Women's Health Campaign and the National Tobacco-Free Steering Committee for the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute. She serves on the senior faculty of the American Medical Association’s Health Broadcasting Conference. She is one of the nation's leading experts and thought leaders on employee wellness and high quality healthcare transformation -for our nation's corporations and for all Americans -- whether they are in the workplace setting or at home.

Christine has spent a decade reporting on trends in health, lifestyle, fitness and sports giving her a leading-edge perspective that is sought-after by Fortune 500 corporations, leading associations and group forums, like The California Governor and First Lady’s Conference on Women and Families. Her background and broad-based career experience give her a unique perspective that resonates with audiences. She has covered a broad range of issues in her reporting – from profiling athletes to legal issues surrounding drugs that are unsafe for children -- all with unparalleled intensity, commitment and compassion.