Brock L. Eide, M.D., M.A., is a Phi Beta Kappa and AOA Medal Honors Society graduate from the University of Washington, and University of Washington School of Medicine. He received his Masters Degree from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and engaged in postdoctoral studies at the University of California-San Francisco, National Institutes of Health, and University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured widely and published extensively in the fields of gifted education, learning disabilities, and twice exceptionalities such as giftedness and dyslexia, and served as consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics. Along with his wife, he wrote The Mislabeled Child (Hyperion 2006).

Fernette Eide M.D. is a Magna Cum Laude graduate with highest departmental honors from Harvard-Radcliffe College. She received her M.D. from the University of California-San Francisco School of Medicine and has been on the Neurology faculties of University of Washington, the University of California-San Francisco, and University of Chicago School of Medicine. She has lecture widely and published extensively in the fields of gifted education, learning disabilities, and twice-exceptionalities such as giftedness and dyslexia, and served as consultant to the President's Council on Bioethics. Along with her husband, she wrote The Mislabeled Child (Hyperion 2006).