Dr. Victoria Rogers is the Director of the Kids CO-OP at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center. There, she oversees the development, coordination, and promotion of community-oriented, pediatric healthcare initiatives. Over the past few years, Dr. Rogers has focused her efforts on combating the childhood obesity epidemic. Some of the state-wide initiatives targeting childhood obesity that she has been involved with include: the Countdown to a Healthy ME Program at The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center, the Maine Youth Overweight Collaborative (MYOC), and 5-2-1-0 Goes to School. She is also the Medical Director to the Let’s Go! Initiative.  Let’s Go! is a community initiative funded by local business and healthcare partners in the Greater Portland, Maine area.  Let’s Go! is working in the following areas - healthcare, schools, after school, childcare, workplace and communities to increase healthy eating and physical activity for youth and families. At a national level, she is involved with the Childhood Obesity Action Network. Most recently Dr. Rogers has been asked to participate in the American Academy of Pediatrics Obesity Leadership Workgroup. This workgroup is a cadre of expert consultants upon which the AAP calls on for expert opinion, review, and as spokespersons.