Fernette F. Eide

Fernette Eide M.D. is a Magna Cum Laude graduate with highest departmental honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College. She received her M.D. from the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and has been on the Neurology faculties of University of Washington, the University of California-San Francisco, and University of Chicago School of Medicine. She has lecture widely and published extensively in the fields of gifted education, learning disabilities, and twice-exceptionalities such as giftedness and dyslexia, and served as consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics. Along with her husband, she wrote The Dyslexic Advantage (Hudson Street Press 2011) and The Mislabeled Child (Hyperion 2007).