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Robert Ackatia-Armah
Robert Ackatia-Armah has extensive experience in maternal and child health issues in Africa and is an infant and young child feeding specialist specializing in breastfeeding and complementary feeding. He was a research anthropometrist and part of the WHO Growth Reference Study team in Ghana, one of the six global sites selected to represent Africa in contributing data to the new growth curves. He is a research assistant at the Boston Medical Center’s Breastfeeding Center.

Maureen Allen, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Maureen Allen expects to graduate this year from Walden University and with a Master's in Science in Nursing Education. She was involved in the multisite research study with Paula Meier, Nancy Hurst and Barbara Ackerman. Currently, Maureen works at ParadigmHealth as a Care Manager for NICU babies and their families and as a Lactation Consultant. She specializes in low milk supply and prematurity.

Chris Auer, BSN, IBCLC
Chris Auer is coordinator of a newly established lactation program at University Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio where she also worked in the Pediatric Intensive Care and maternity. She has been an oral and poster presenter at conferences and has published in the Journal of Human Lactation. She has given numerous presentations about breastfeeding the term and preterm infant, including monthly presentations to pediatric interns and home health nursing agencies.
 

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Gini Baker, RN, MPH, R-IBCLC, FACCE
Gini Baker practices at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women in San Diego, California. She regularly works with the neonatal intensive care infants and high risk obstetrical clients and is the Perinatal Health Program Coordinator for University of California San Diego College of Extended Studies, including the Lactation Specialist, Lactation Educator Counselor, and Lactation Consultant courses.

Jeanne Barreira, CNM, IBCLC
Jeanne Barreira together with a colleague established the first lactation service at Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston in 2002. She participates in inpatient and outpatient services, community and inhouse education of physicians, residents, nurses, and students both in the classroom and clinical setting. Jeanne is the chair of the Multidisciplinary Infant Feeding Team.

Genevieve E. Becker, MSc, MEd, IBCLC
Genevieve Becker has worked in infant and young child feeding for over 25 years. Her business BEST Services provides breastfeeding education, support and training services for national and international agencies including WHO and UNICEF. Genevieve is working towards a PhD examining assessment of competence in assisting mothers to learn breastfeeding skills. Genevieve is a past ILCA Board member and lives in Galway, Ireland.

Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC
Kirsten Berggren works with Vermont’s health department writing breastfeeding materials and working on the Vermont Breastfeeding Friendly Employer Project. She teaches pathophysiology at the University of Vermont nursing school and lectures to medical students and residents. She works in an outpatient breastfeeding clinic and teaches breastfeeding classes. She is the author of Working without Weaning.

Christine M. Betzold, NP, MSN, CLC
Christine Betzold has authored an assortment of items about lactation including cases studies, a report on a breastfeeding education pilot program and the chapter on breastfeeding in Pharmacology for Primary Care Providers. She works at Children's Hospital of Orange County in California where she does in-house and outpatient lactation consults. She specializes in breast infections, low milk supply and prematurity.

Elizabeth C. Brooks, JD, IBCLC
Liz Brooks is a lactation consultant in private practice (since 1999) and a lawyer (since 1983). Her legal expertise is in ethics, lobbying, administrative and criminal law. She does home visits, works in a hospital with a Level II NICU, and helps at a non-profit breastfeeding clinic. Liz is the Secretary on the ILCA Board of Directors.

Ann Brownlee, PhD
Ann Brownlee is a medical sociologist and a Clinical Professor in the Division of International Health and Cross-Cultural Medicine at the University of California San Diego Medical School. She works as an independent consultant in the areas of breastfeeding, infant and young child feeding and international health, specializing in evaluation and applied research. She has served as team leader on numerous international health programs and has worked with Wellstart, WHO and UNICEF.

Kathleen Buckley, PhD, RN, IBCLC
Kathleen Buckley is an Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at The Catholic University of America, where she has taught courses in pediatric nursing, nutrition, and health promotion. Her research interests include long-term breastfeeding, cultural differences in breastfeeding practices, and the use of technology for delivering breastfeeding support. She practices clinically as a home health nurse caring for new mother-baby couples and premature infants.

Kathryn Buller, RN, BSCN, IBCLC
Kathryn Buller is a lactation consultant for the Level 2 NICU, Pediatric and Post Discharge Nutritional Clinics at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, Ontario.

Susan Burger, PhD, IBCLC
Susan Burger was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire and has worked in over 33 countries in Africa, South-East Asia, and South America. She was Director of Nutrition for Helen Keller International and has consulted for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, International Red Cross, United Nations Children’s Fund, USAID, World Bank, and World Health Organization. She currently has a private lactation consultant practice in Manhattan.


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Karin Cadwell, PhD, RN, FAAN, IBCLC
Karin Cadwell is a member of the faculty of the Healthy Children Project and Union Institute, and convened Baby-Friendly USA, the organization implementing the UNICEF Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in the United States. She counsels breastfeeding mothers at the Center for Breastfeeding on Cape Cod. She is the author of numerous books and articles. She has led delegations focusing on Breastfeeding and Human Lactation to several countries.

Suzanne Hetzel Campbell, PhD, APRN, IBCLC
Suzanne Hetzel Campbell is a nurse educator and breastfeeding researcher at Fairfield University in Connecticut and also works with breastfeeding families. She has been active in ILCA on the research committee and presently serves as Director-at-Large. Her research focuses on breastfeeding self-efficacy, plugged ducts, hyperlactation and nipple issues, and low-income ethnically diverse populations.

Cathy Carothers, BLA, IBCLC
Cathy Carothers is co-founder and co-director of EVERY MOTHER, INC., a nonprofit organization providing counseling and lactation trainings for health professionals and families across the United States. She previously served as Training and Outreach Coordinator for Best Start Social Marketing and WIC Breastfeeding Coordinator for the Mississippi State Department of Health. Cathy is Director of Marketing for ILCA.

Carmen Casanovas, MD, MPH
Carmen Casanovas is Technical Officer in the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development with the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office.

Carol Chamblin, RN, MS, IBCLC
Carol Chamblin works in private practice and with a two pediatrician practices. She has previously worked as a neonatal intensive care nurse and as a consultant at a WIC agency where she began a pump loan program and conducted staff education. Carol has worked in a hospital setting where she helped set-up fees and reimbursement for outpatient visits. She is a member of the USLCA Board of Directors.

Kendall Cox, BA, IBCLC, RLC
Kendall Cox is co-founder and co-director of EVERY MOTHER, INC, a non-profit organization that provides curriculum development and breastfeeding and counseling trainings nationwide. She trains healthcare providers in breastfeeding promotion and support and teaches classes for pregnant mothers at local high schools in the Mississippi Delta. She worked previously for Best Start Social Marketing and the Mississippi State Department of Health WIC Program.

Suzanne G. Cox, AM, RM, IBCLC
Sue Cox has a private practice and teaches lactation online with Health-e-Learning. She has just completed three years in the presidential cycle on the ILCA board. Sue’s most recent research was on BFHI to complete her BMid. She is the author of "Breastfeeding with Confidence" and the writer and presenter on a number of videos and DVDs. Sue was appointed as a Member of Australia (AM) in 2004.
 

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Stella Dao, MD, FACEP
Stella Dao is a board certified Emergency Physician and Fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. She has more than 15 years of ER experience, and extensive call center, and Quality/Process Improvement experience. She has educated nurse practitioners, physician assistants and emergency room residents for University of California San Francisco and University of California Davis. She is co-founder and President of Dao Health, a medical device manufacturer.

Mary DeNicola
Mary DeNicola has practiced as a lactation consultant in Orange County, California for 22 years. She has worked in delivery hospitals, private practice, and currently directs the Lactation Program at Children's Hospital Orange County, providing primary lactation health to high risk moms and their babies.

George C. Denniston, MD, MPH
George C. Denniston is the founder of Doctors Opposing Circumcision and a retired professor of medicine. He is the author of many medical articles on circumcision and the co-author of seven books.

Katherine Dettwyler, PhD
Katherine Dettwyler teaches anthropology classes at Millersville University in Pennsylvania and at the University of Delaware in Newark. She continues her affiliation with Texas A&M University, where she taught from 1987 to 2000. She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa in addition to many scholarly articles. She is co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives, and Reflections on Anthropology: A Four-Field Reader.

Margie Deutsch-Lash, MSEd, IBCLC
Margie Deutsch Lash has provided lactation and parenting consultation services since 1982. She is a popular speaker at regional and international conferences, an active member of La Leche League, the founding President of the Orange County Lactation Consultants Association, and past President of the Orange County Breastfeeding Coalition. Margie has written articles concerning education and parenting.

Lisa DiGiorgio, MPH, RD, CD
Lisa DiGiorgio works as a Nutrition Consultant and Breastfeeding Coordinator at Public Health Seattle & King County. She coordinates five nutrition programs, including the WIC Program which has over 30 clinics and 300 staff. She has spear headed many county-wide breastfeeding initiatives, including the Physician Lactation Education Collaborative.
 

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Tracy Erickson, RD, LD, IBCLC
Tracy Erickson has overseen the coordination of breastfeeding promotion and support activities in Texas WIC since 1999. She has served as a board member for the Mother's Milk Bank at Austin since 1999 and is an active member of the Central Texas Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Breastfeeding Coalition and the statewide breastfeeding coalition.
 

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Tracey Foster RN, RM, IBCLC, CFHN
Tracey Foster is a practicing midwife and lactation consultant and Clinical Nurse Consultant with the Orange Aboriginal Medical Service in New South Wales, Australia. She has worked for over 14 years with multiple Indigenous groups, individuals and families in Wiradjuri Country, New South Wales. She had a paper on breastfeed published in New Zealand and is currently The NSW Rural Liaison Officer for The New South Wales Lactation College.
 

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John V. Geisheker, JD, LLM
John V. Geisheker, a native of New Zealand, is the Director of Doctors Opposing Circumcision, an international non-profit headquartered in Seattle, Washington. John has practiced medico-legal law for 26 years. He lectures on the bioethics of non-therapeutic pediatric surgeries.

Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC
Catherine Watson Genna has had a private lactation consulting practice in New York City since 1992. She specializes in factors that affect infant sucking skills, and frequently writes and presents on these issues. She is editor of a new textbook, Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants.

Lenore Goldfarb, IBCLC
Lenore Goldfarb is a lactation consultant/researcher with the Goldfarb Breastfeeding Program - Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. She is Executive Director of the Canadian Breastfeeding Foundation, and co-Author with Dr. Jack Newman of The Protocols for Induced Lactation: A Guide for Maximizing Breastmilk Production. Lenore is pursuing a Ph.D. in Human Lactation with The Union Institute & University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kathleen Gray, RN, MSN, MEd
Kathleen Gray is a bereavement counselor and co-founde of the Centre for Reproductive Loss in Montreal, where she serves as director. She is the co-author of Grieving Reproductive Loss: The Healing Process.

Marina Green, MSN, IBCLC
Marina Green is employed in the Lactation Service at Children’s and Women’s Hospital and Health Centre of British Columbia. Previously the Canadian representative to IBCLE she is currently on the board of directors of Quintessence Foundation, a member of the International Lactation Education Accreditation Council and the Executive of the Breastfeeding Committee of Canada where she chairs the Baby-Friendly Assessment Committee.

Karen Gromada, MSN, RN, IBCLC
Karen Gromada has experience in a variety of perinatal settings and has worked as a private practice and hospital lactation consultant. She served as President of the International Lactation Consultant Association from 1994-1996. She is author of Mothering Multiples and a well-known speaker on a wide variety of breastfeeding/lactation topics.
 

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Barbara Haase, CPNP, IBCLC
Barbara Haase has extensive experience in pediatrics and lactation in community, hospital and outpatient settings. She has worked in private practice as a lactation consultant in Belgium, Europe, and has lectured at national and international conferences. She is currently a lactation consultant at the Medical University of South Carolina for the high risk nurseries, postpartum and outpatient areas. Her special interest lies in breastfeeding high risk infants.

Bernice L. Hausman, PhD
Bernice Hausman is professor of English at Virginia Tech and author of Changing Sex: Transsexualism, Technology, and the Idea of Gender and Mother's Milk: Breastfeeding Controversies in American Culture. Her articles are published in several journals. Her main research interests are sexed embodiment, feminist and gender theory, and cultural studies of medicine. Currently, she is the coordinator and faculty advisor for the university minor in Medicine and Society.

Joy Heads, OAM, CM, MPHEd, IBCLC
Joy Heads is the Clinical Nurse Consultant at the Royal Hospital for Women in Sydney, Australia. She is the member-at-large on ILCA’s Conference Committee and co-wrote the Chapter on Breast Pathology in ILCA’s Core Curriculum with Angela Smith. She was the founding president of the New South Wales Lactation College and is an advisor to the Australian Multiple Birth Association. In 2006 she was awarded the Order of Australian Medal.

M Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC
Jane Heinig is a faculty member and researcher in clinical lactation, program evaluation, and infant nutrition in the Department of Nutrition, University of California-Davis Human Lactation Center in Davis, California. She is editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Human Lactation and Executive Director of the UC Davis Human Lactation Center.


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Frances Jones, RN, IBCLC
Frances Jones coordinates the Lactation Service at Children’s and Women’s Health Centre of British Columbia and the BC Women’s Milk Bank. She co-founded the Lactation Service with Marina Green in 1987. Frances chairs HMBANA and the Quintessence Foundation, non-profit foundation providing education to health professionals and the public on breastfeeding and donor milk banking. She is a former ILCA board member.
 

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Edith Kernerman, IBCLC
Edith Kernerman is co-founder and co-director of the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute in Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of the Gameplan for Protecting and Supporting Breastfeeding in the First 24 hours of life and Beyond: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals. In 2005, she created the International Meeting of the Minds, and continues her work toward minimizing contradictory and conflicting information in the lactation world.

Phyllis Kombol, RNC, IBCLC, MSN
Phyllis Kombol has been a registered nurse since 1979 and an IBCLC since 1993. Before becoming a lactation consultant, she was a NICU nurse for 10 years and continues to maintain that specialty certification. In her clinical lactation practice, she follows babies in the 20 bed NICU at her current worksite and provides outpatient lactation care to mothers and babies after NICU discharge.
 

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Mary Lantry, RM, IBCLC
Mary Lantry has been Parenting and Lactation Consultant at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney Australia for nearly 19 years. The hospital has over 5000 births per year and is the biggest tertiary hospital in Sydney. Mary is involved in extensive education programs for both medical and nursing staff including IBLCE candidates.
 

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Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC, RLC
Lisa Marasco holds a Master's degree in Human Development with specialization in Lactation. She has authored several articles, and recently co-authored a new book entitled Making More Milk: A Nursing Mother's Guide to Milk Supply with Diana West.

Mary Marshall-Crim, MSN, IBCLC
Mary Marshall-Crim is a lactation consultant at Middlesex Hospital in Middletown, Connecticut. She spearheaded the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative and received BFHI status in 2005. Recently she received her MS in Nursing from Southern Connecticut State University and has sat for her nurse practitioner board. Mary hopes to expand the breastfeeding support group at Middlesex Hospital to provide a full service lactation center.

Patricia McVeagh, MD
Patricia McVeagh is a Consultant Pediatrician and well-known children's health advocate. She is on the Visiting Medical Staff of The New Children's Hospital, Westmead, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick, and the Tresillian Family Care Centres. She is a Clinical Lecturer in infant nutrition at both the University of New South Wales and Sydney University. She is a co-author of Growing Healthy Children and serves on a panel to monitor compliance on the marketing of infant formula.

Anne Merewood, MPH, IBCLC
Anne Merewood is Director of the Breastfeeding Center at Baby-Friendly Boston Medical Center, and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine. Her research interests include the BFHI; vitamin D, and quality of research in breastfeeding. She also mentors graduate student from BU. She is a Board Member of the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition, on the review board of the Journal of Human Lactation, and an ILCA Research Committee member.

Beverly Morgan, IBCLC
Beverly Morgan has a special eye for babies’ body language and responses to milk-flow. She is the author of the audiobooks series, Breastfeeding Basics and Beyond, and is one of the co-founders of MOBI Motherhood International (Mothers Overcoming Breastfeeding Issues).

Chris Mulford, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Chris Mulford works for WIC in South Jersey and is a La Leche League Leader Reserve. She chairs the Workplace Breastfeeding Support Committee for the United States Breastfeeding Committee and is co-coordinator of the WABA’s Women and Work Task Force. Chris is a former ILCA board member.
 

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Sallie Page-Goertz, RN, MN, CPNP, IBCLC
Sallie Page-Goertz is on the faculty of the Department of Pediatrics at KU Medical Center in Kansas City, Kansas where she also provides ambulatory care and lactation consultant services. She has published articles and chapters related to a variety of breastfeeding issues. She served as President of ILCA and currently serves as their representative to the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action. She is particularly interested in breastfeeding promotion, and the early phases of breastfeeding.

Amy Peterson, BS, IBCLC
Amy Peterson has been an IBCLC in private practice for six years and is also contracted to do lactation rounds at a local hospital. She has taught the 18-hour Breastfeeding Friendly Hospital Initiative course to physicians and nurses. She is also contracted through the US Federal Infant-Toddler Program.

Elena Pizzi, Pharm.D.
Elena Pizzi is a Senior Regional Scientific Manager with AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, where she has been in the Medical Affairs division for over seven years. She previously worked with Kaiser as a clinical pharmacist in the anticoagulation clinic. She has a specialty in asthma and allergy.

Diane Powers, BA, IBCLC
Diane Powers has been a La Leche League Leader, a lactation consultant in private practice, and most recently a full time lactation consultant. Diane has a passion for understanding the "BIG WHY"S" in the challenges that present in breastfeeding, and a desire to break down those obstacles in a manner that is easily understood whether by new parent or professional. Diane has published 5 articles in the Journal of Human Lactation and has undertaken 2 research projects.
 

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Kimberly Radtke
Kimberly has been the Coordinator of the Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington for 9 years working with WithinReach and the Washington Department of Health on the coordination of statewide breastfeeding promotion. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Social Work from the University of New Hampshire, a Certificate in Midwifery from Seattle Midwifery School, and a Certificate in Public Relations from the University of Washington.

Janet Rourke, MSHP, CLE
Janet Rourke has been involved in breastfeeding promotion for the last twenty years. She has been involved in legislative activity for the last eleven years. Janet is co-chair of the Texas Breastfeeding Coalition and President of Central Texas Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition. She is a board member of the Mothers’ Milk Bank at Austin.
 

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Randa Saadeh, BSc, MSc, RD
Randa Saadeh is a scientist at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland at the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development where she implements and monitors the Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding and nutrition, HIV/AIDS. She helps maintain a WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding where she monitors global trends and prevalence. She is the WHO Designated Technical Officer for many NGOs.

Lisa Sandora, MA, CCC-SLP, IBCLC
Lisa Sandora, a Speech-Language Pathologist and lactation consultant, has worked and taught in a number of settings. She currently works in a hospital-based outpatient program and combines knowledge from both backgrounds to provide breastfeeding intervention with a focus on feeding disorders.

Nancy Schottle, MSc, RN, IBCLC
Nancy Schottle is a lactation consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Ontario and co-author of breastfeeding articles.

Cheryl R. Scott, RN, PhD, IBCLC
Cheryl Scott has worked for 17 years as a NICU nurse. She participated in Kaiser Northern California's Department of Research on many Neonatal & Breastfeeding Research Projects. She has been the Inpatient Lactation Consultant for Kaiser South Sacramento Hospital for 11 years and participates on Kaiser Northern California's Breastfeeding Task Force & Kaiser Northern California's Lactation Consultants Association.

Ann Seacrest, RN, IBCLC
Ann Seacrest has been involved in maternal child health care for 25 years as a childbirth educator, a doula, a nurse and a lactation consultant. Ann has served as a consultant for the development of health care services and as a lobbyist for midwifery legislation. She is one of the founders and Executive Director of MilkWorks, a free standing, non-profit breastfeeding center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Katherine Shealy, MPH, IBCLC, RLC
Katherine Shealy works in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity, Maternal Child Nutrition branch, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Her work includes extensive research in infant feeding practices and breastfeeding behavior.

Ursuline Singleton, MPH, RD
Ursuline Singleton is a Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist with over 24 years of experience as a clinician and administrator of nutrition education programs. Her areas of specialization are Maternal and Child Health, Obesity and Diabetes Management.

Linda Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC
Linda Smith is a lactation consultant, childbirth educator, author, and internationally-known consultant on breastfeeding and birthing issues. She is a past board member of ILCA and currently serves on the Leadership Team of the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She owns the Bright Future Lactation Resource Center.
 

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Marta Trejos, MS
Marta Trejos is a sociologist who has studied math, law and gender. She was born and lives in Costa Rica. She is the IBFAN Latin America and Caribbean Regional Coordinator and the WABA Steering Committee Co-chair. She is a promoter of various development, human and women rights, youth, breastfeeding and community organizations in the region and worldwide.

Mary Rose Tully, MPH, IBCLC
Mary Rose Tully is Director of the Department of Lactation Services at North Carolina Women's Hospital. She has published many papers on breastfeeding and donor milk banking and along with Mary Overfield developed a breastfeeding video for parents. She serves on the United States Breastfeeding Committee and is Immediate Past President of the Human Milk Banking Association of North America. She also served on the ILCA Board of Directors.

Cynthia Turner-Maffei, MA, IBCLC
Cynthia Turner-Maffei is a national coordinator of Baby-Friendly USA and counsels nursing mothers on Cape Cod and is a delegate to the breastfeeding coalitions on the local, state, and national level, including the US Breastfeeding Committee. A faculty member of the Healthy Children Project, and adjunct faculty of The Union Institute and University, Cindy is also an author of numerous publications, including Case Studies in Breastfeeding.
 

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Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
Marsha Walker is the executive director of the National Alliance for Breastfeeding Advocacy: Research, Education, and Legal Branch, a board member of the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition and Baby Friendly USA, ILCA’s representative to the USDA's Breastfeeding Promotion Consortium, and NABA REAL's representative to the US Breastfeeding Committee. She is author Breastfeeding Management for the Clinician: Using the Evidence and a former ILCA board member.

Nikki Ward, BSN, IBCLC
Nicki Ward is a lactation consultant at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Illinois. She has many years of experience with the NICU population as well as the normal newborn mother-baby dyad. She has spoken extensively on a variety of breastfeeding topics.

Diana West, IBCLC
Diana West is an IBCLC in private practice, a member of the IBLCE MILCC Board, author of Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery, ILCA's Clinician's Breastfeeding Triage Tool, and co-author with Lisa Marasco of Making More Milk: A Nursing Mother's Guide to Milk Supply. She is a retired La Leche League Leader and administrator of BFAR.org, LowMilkSupply.org, and LactSpeak.org websites.

Claire Westdahl, CNM, MPH, FACNM
Claire Westdahl is Director of Nurse-Midwifery, Department of Gyn-Ob, Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She developed a train the trainer curriculum on social marketing and breastfeeding for Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Agriculture and American College of Nurse Midwives. She participated in a project comparing models of group prenatal care to individual prenatal care.

Nancy E. Wight, MD, IBCLC
Nancy Wight is a neonatologist at Rady Children's Hospital and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women, Medical Director for Sharp Healthcare Lactation Services, and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of California Medical Center, San Diego. She is a member of the California State Breastfeeding Promotion Advisory Committee, current President and web editor for the San Diego County Breastfeeding Coalition, and a past president of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

Barbara Wilson-Clay, BSEd, IBCLC
Barbara Wilson-Clay is in private practice in Austin, Texas specializing in difficult breastfeeding cases. Barbara helped found the Texas Chapter of Healthy Mothers/Healthy Babies, and is a member of the Texas Breastfeeding Coalition. She is a co-founder and current Vice President of the non-profit Mothers Milk Bank at Austin. She has been a volunteer lobbyist in the Texas legislature during each legislative session since 1993, working to pass legislation promoting breastfeeding.
 

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