Dr. Paul Ehrmann is the creator and founder of the award-winning Children's Health Initiative Program. In addition, he is a board certified family practitioner, medical director and founder of the Family Health Care Center, a primary care medical group practice located in Royal Oak, Michigan, since 1982. He has been actively involved throughout the state of Michigan as a volunteer in dozens of health related community-based projects.

He received his BS degree in pharmacy in 1976 at Wayne State University's College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Profession in Detroit and his DO degree at Michigan State University's College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1980 in East Lansing, Michigan. In addition to serving as medical director of his private practice, he serves as an associate clinical professor in the department of family practice at Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and is a member of the State of Michigan and Oakland County, Michigan, task force on childhood Obesity.