The ILCA Annual Conference provides a rich learning environment for lactation professionals and others who assist mothers and babies with breastfeeding. It offers current and aspiring lactation consultants information on cutting-edge lactation practices and research to equip you in giving optimal breastfeeding care and support to mothers and babies.

Our three keynote speakers at our 2008 conference in Las Vegas are:

• Dr Mary Renfrew, author and Professor of Mother and Infant Health, Department of Health Sciences, University of York UK;
• Dr Mark Cregan, Faculty Director of International Programmes in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Western Australia who, with his doctoral students, is working towards better understanding the cellular components of breastmilk during lactation; and
• Dr Julie Smith, an Australian economist and lay breastfeeding counsellor, who is currently researching a book on the economics of mothers’ milk.

Other invited speakers include:

• Liz Brooks, JD, IBCLC. USA
• Cathy Carothers, BLA, IBCLC. USA
• Glenda Dickerson, RN, MS, IBCLC. USA
• Joan Fisher, RN, BN, MEd, IBCLC. Canada
• Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC. USA
• Dr. Leon Gross, PhD. USA
• Professor Tom Hale, R.Ph., PhD. USA
• Dr. Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC. USA
• Becky Mannel, BS, BA, IBCLC. USA
• Paula Meier, RN, DNSc, FAAN. USA
• Diane Powers BA, IBCLC. USA
• Sue Saunders, RM, IBCLC. UK
• Dr. Christina Smillie, MD, IBCLC. USA
• Barbara Wilson-Clay, BS, IBCLC. USA