Organic Stewardship Awards

Dr. Michelle Perro

Author & Co-Founder of GMOScience

Michelle Perro, MD, is a veteran pediatrician with forty years of experience in emergency and integrative medicine. Two decades ago, Dr. Perro transformed her clinical practice to include pesticide and health advocacy. She has both directed and worked as attending physician from New York’s Metropolitan Hospital to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, Oakland. Dr. Perro has managed her own business, Down to Earth Pediatrics, creating a new field of integrative urgent care medicine. Dr. Perro has co-authored the highly acclaimed book, What’s Making our Children Sick and is presently working on her second book, “Making our Children Well”, to be published in early 2023. She co-founded and is Executive Director of a non-profit scientific-based website, GMOScience. She has authored many publications, lectured both nationally and internationally, and has a pediatric column with the journal, The Townsend Letter. Dr. Perro is proud to be a member of the newly formed non-profit, Regeneration Health International, sister organization to Regeneration International. The focus of this project is to educate, bringing food as medicine to the table of global eaters, while highlighting the relationships between soil and environmental good health.