A Closer Look at Successful Breastfeeding Promotion Interventions: What, Why & How
October 26-27, 2006, Walter A. Buehler Alumni & Visitor Center

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Speakers

Anne Merewood, MPH, IBCLC, is Director of Research for the Breastfeeding Center at the Boston Medical Center, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University School of Medicine, and a Board Member of the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition. She has worked in lactation since 1997 and is widely published in the medical literature. She is a member of ILCA's Research Committee, and on the Breastfeeding Committee of the American Public Health Association.

Caroline Chantry, MD, FAAP, FABM, member of the 2006 Academy of
Breastfeeding Medicine's Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the Academy of
Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol Committee, is an Associate Professor of
Clinical Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, Medical Center
(UCDMC); Medical Director of the UCDMC Normal Newborn Nursery; and a
pediatrician at the University of California, Davis, Children’s Hospital.
She is also Medical Director of the Breastfeeding Coalition of the Greater
Sacramento Area. Her research interests include pediatric nutrition,
specifically breastfeeding medicine, nutrition in pediatric HIV disease,
and more recently studying the intersection of these two areas by looking at
safer ways for HIV-infected mothers to breastfeed their infants.

Karen Dietzen, BSN, MA (Couns.), RN, IBCLC, is a clinical nurse and an international board-certified lactation consultant with the University of California, Davis Medical Center. There she heads the lactation program and serves as the co-chair of the Breastfeeding Task Force. She is a member of the Sacramento Breastfeeding Coalition and was selected by the California Breastfeeding Coalition to represent the state as a delegate to the United States Breastfeeding Committee’s National Convention of Breastfeeding Coalitions in 2006. In addition, Ms. Dietzen served a Breastfeeding and Human Lactation Delegate to the People’s Republic of China in 1996. Ms. Dietzen is also a member of the Department of Health Services Breastfeeding Promotion Advisory Committee.

Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC, is an academic administrator in the Department of Nutrition at UC Davis, executive director of the UC Davis Human Lactation Center, and the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Human Lactation. Dr. Heinig has been recognized for her adult education efforts in the area of community nutrition and has completed curriculum development for a Maternal and Child Nutrition Master degree program to be offered at UC Davis for working professionals. She continues to be an active human lactation researcher, and consultant for public and private agencies across the nation.

Dr. Heinig's research area is maternal and child nutrition, particularly during lactation. Current topics of investigation include a) nutritional factors related to infant growth and development, b) behavioral theory and its relation to infant feeding intentions and practices among diverse populations, c) benefits of breastfeeding for infants and their mothers, and d) risk factors for poor weight gain among breastfed infants.