Dr. Heide Temples is a professor and the Coordinator of the Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Program at Clemson University. She teaches pediatrics to the graduate students in the PNP and Family Nurse Practitioner Programs. She completed her PhD in Healthcare Genetics and was a fellow in the Summer Genetics Institute (SGI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland. She has been an actively practicing Pediatric Primary Care Nurse Practitioner with over 30 years of clinical experience and is an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). In the past, she was a research nurse at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. Her past research also included studies on the self-determination for weight loss in African American Adolescents with the University of South Carolina. Dr. Temples is presently researching the epigenetic influence of human milk on the growth, development, and risk of developing type-2-diabetes in twin children with the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. She also is conducting research to understand the mother's experience with drug dependence while being pregnant and raising a family through qualitative storytelling, to better inform service delivery to affected families in the Carolinas. Dr. Temples is past-president of the Gamma Mu Chapter of Sigma Theta Tau Nursing Honor Society and is an active member in the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (NAPNAP), Association of Faculties of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners (AFPNP), International Society of Nurses in Genetics (ISONG), Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and the International Society of the Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD).