J’nelle Ruscetti has her masters in science and is a physician assistant in family medicine. She has been practicing medicine since 1997 and did her training in Colorado at the Child Health Associate/Physician Assistant Program. She lives near the beach in Wilmington, North Carolina, where she spends her time outside the office participating in an active lifestyle with her husband, Howard, a family medicine physician in Carolina Beach, and their four children. Since January 2012, she has devoted a couple hours a week as a volunteer instructing the child-obesity intervention and prevention program she developed in her community, the Family Fitness Challenge.