Our Team

Nimali Fernando, MD, MPH

Dr. Nimali Fernando is a board-certified pediatrician practicing in Fredericksburg, VA and founder of the website doctoryum.org and The Doctor Yum Project, a nonprofit organization that empowers families with information on illness prevention through a healthy diet.  Dr. Fernando graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a Medical Degree and Masters in Public Health. She completed her residency in Pediatrics at The University of Texas – Houston Health Science Center and then served for several years as Clinical Assistant Professor in the department of Pediatrics. In 2005, she began practicing pediatrics in Fredericksburg, Virginia. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).  She is also the co-author of Doctor Yum’s Preschool Food Adventure, in interactive nutrition curriculum being used in several Central Virginia Schools and Raising a Healthy, Happy Eater: A Parent’s Handbook. She has been on a guest expert on childhood nutrition on such media outlets as NPR, Sirius XM radio, Fox DC, Fox Baltimore and WUSA. Her work with the Doctor Yum Project has been featured in Northern VA Magazine, The Voice of America, WTOP and The New York Times, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt.