Raising Kids in the New Millennium is the first book written by Dr. Marianne Restel, FAAP (Fellow - American Academy of Pediatrics). She is a 1983 graduate of the University of Utah School of Medicine, a class which ranked in the top ten in the country in performance on required medical boards. She participated in the pediatric honors program and graduated in the upper half of her class.
In her 20 years as a physician, she has evaluated thousands of different pediatric patients in a variety of practice settings including a military clinic near Ramstein Air Base in Germany, a solo private practice in Tooele and Bountiful Utah, after hours urgent care clinics based in Salt Lake City, a public health care center catering to Latino and indigent patients in Ogden, Utah, and in migrant centers in northern Utah. Her formal training included two years of pediatric training at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, CA, and a third year at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, Utah. She became board certified in pediatrics in 1994 and re-certified in 2001.
She was on staff at Primary Children's Medical Center, as well as other hospitals, for several years during these various practices, participated in Community Pediatrics Division as a teaching attending and was a voluntary clinical assistant professor at the University of Utah.
Dr. Restel highly values the time she spent with her two young boys when they were infants and toddlers as a stay-at-home mother for three and a half years. She feels that it certainly was the right situation for her children and herself, that the experience enhanced her ability to understand and appreciate normal childhood development, and that it helped her to relate to parents in the office.
Dr. Restel delights in the normal development of children, even to the point of enjoying a temper tantrum in a two year old. This philosophy comes from having seen a large number of children with impairments that prevent normal development. One child in particular is special in this regard - Dr. Restel provided an early, life-saving diagnosis of a large, malignant brain tumor in a 13 month old toddler who presented with minimal symptoms. After 95% removal of the tumor by neurosurgery, and follow up medical treatment, Dr. Restel was thrilled to see the child later in the office throw a major tantrum at age two! According to cancer registry updates, the child is alive and cancer-free, and now approximately 8 years old.
Dr. Restel was born as Marianne Klepich in Red Lodge, Montana in 1957 to a legal Norwegian immigrant mother and a first generation Yugoslavian-American father. She grew up in Montana and Idaho, attended high school in Pocatello, Idaho, and graduated summa cum laude from Albertson College of Idaho in Caldwell, Idaho. From there, she went directly to medical school in Salt Lake.
Future literary plans include the Spanish translation of Raising Kids in the New Millennium with which she is helping, a children's book, and an easy-to-read book discussing the basic formation, anatomy and disease processes of the human body.
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