Professor Laurie E. Bernstein is a Co-managing partner of Met Ed and a Professor Emerita in the Department of Pediatrics, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine . she is a  Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a co-founder of Metabolic University, a training forum for registered dietitians, nurses, genetic counselors, and medical doctors and a founding member of Genetic Metabolic Dietitians International (GMDI). She is the co-author of Penny the Penguin Has PKU , Setting Up Your Low Protein Kitchen, Max the Monkey has MCADD, Stepping Up Your Protein Intake and many educational modules for families with inborn errors of metabolism. She is a co-editor and author of the textbook Nutrition Management of Inherited Metabolic Diseases: Lessons from Metabolic University.