Breastfeeding: Working it Out

Breastfeeding: Working it Out (also available online)
Pre-conference 'Counselling the breastfeeding mother' workshops

www.breastfeedingseminars.asn.au

Topics
'Just one bottle; how can it hurt', 'Allergic Collitis', 'Working from research to practice', 'Providing human milk to pre-term infants', 'Breastfeeding the near-term infant - what a difference a week (s) makes', 'The folly of depending on numbers', 'The many faces of guilt, - what mothers have to cope with', 'Bed-sharing and dummies','MumBubConnect', 'Epidemiology of infant sleep', 'Postnatal support for mothers', 'Birthspacing and breastfeeding'

Speakers:
Assoc Prof Kathie Marinelli (USA)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and neonatologist and director of Lactation Support Services at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

Dr Jack Newman (Canada)
Dr Newman has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and now works at the International Breastfeeding Centre based at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto.

Dr Julie Smith
Fellow in the Australian Centre for Economic Research on Health, Australian National University. She is the lead Chief Investigator of a nationwide project investigating how workplaces and childcare centres can best support breastfeeding.
Dr Ching Tat Lai
Dr Lai completed his PhD in the Hartmann Human Lactation Laboratory. He is currently researching expression regimes and milk production over time for pre-term babies.

Prof Miriam Labbok (USA)
Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, Gillings School of Global Public Health, North Carolina and Director, Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute

Dr Peter Blair (UK)
Senior Research Fellow with a background in medical statistics and a particular interest in infant and childhood epidemiology. An internationally recognised expert in the SIDS field and advisor to UNICEF UK.

Assoc Prof Ellen McIntyre
Director with the Primary Health Care Research & Information Service (PHC RIS) at Flinders University, SA.

Dr Wendy Brodribb
Dr Brodribb has worked in areas of women’s health with a specific interest in lactation for over 20 years. She has completed a PhD focusing on the breastfeeding skills and knowledge of GP registrars.

Prof Rebekah Russell-Bennett (Sydney only)
Professor at the QUT Business School, Queensland University of Technology.

Dr Danielle Gallegos (Adelaide and Perth only)
Social nutritionist and Senior Lecturer at Queensland University of Technology.