Katie Hidaka grew up in the western suburbs of Chicago and received a BS in Honors Biology from the University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, attended medical school at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and completed her pediatric residency at Children's Memorial Hospital (now Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago).  She started her career as a general pediatrician for 13 years before focusing on lactation and earning her IBCLC certification in 2021.  She has always loved helping mothers and babies, and her passion for breastfeeding led her to specialize her practice to the field of lactation.  She loves helping parents achieve their breastfeeding goals, educating families about lactation and infant behaviors, and providing support during this exciting and exhausting time.  Her husband is an internist, and they live in Glenview with their two children.  In her free time, she loves to travel with her family especially to Wisconsin and Florida.