Speakers
GOLD10 offers a list of speakers who will present topics with a true international flavour. You will have the opportunity to listen to and ask questions of the most respected human lactation researchers and clinicians in the world -all from the comfort of your own desktop. Below are just a few of the 20-25 speakers who will present their specialty topic.
Watch here as more names are added as information becomes available.
James Akre, BA MPIAJames Akre has both academic and practical experience in sociology, pu...
James Akre
James Akre has both academic and practical experience in sociology, public and international affairs, and public health, with an early focus on economic and social development and the welfare of populations in low-income rural environments. His community development and international public health nutrition career spans four decades, including over 30 years working in agencies of the United Nations system dealing with labour and social affairs, and public health. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE), the Editorial Board of the open-access International Breastfeeding Journal and the Scientific Committee of La Leche League France. James Akre will deliver a free online pre-conference presentation at GOLD on May 1st 2010.
Catherine Watson-Genna, IBCLCCatherine Watson Genna has been an IBCLC in private practice in NYC si...
Catherine Watson-Genna
Catherine Watson Genna has been an IBCLC in private practice in NYC since 1992. She has a special interest in the anatomical, genetic and neurological influences on infant sucking skills, and writes and speaks on these topics. She is co-researcher in a study utilizing ultrasound to examine tongue movements during breastfeeding in infants with ankyloglossia and other sucking problems. Her clinical photographs are widely published. She is the author of Selecting and Using Breastfeeding Tools: Improving Care and Outcomes (Hale 2009) and Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants (Jones and Bartlett Publishers 2008)
Prof. Helen Ball, PhD, MA, BSc (Hons)Helen Ball is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University (UK) and ...
Prof. Helen Ball
Helen Ball is Professor of Anthropology at Durham University (UK) and directs the Parent-Infant Sleep laboritories there. She has been teaching and conducting research about night-time infant care and breastfeeding for 14 years and supervises a team of 11 PhD and postdoctoral researchers. Together they conduct research in the sleep laboritories, local hospitals and the community. Helen contributes to national and international guidelines on bed-sharing, infant sleep and SIDS and advises hospitals on bed-sharing policies.
Lisa Marasco, MA, IBCLC, FILCALisa Marasco has been working with breastfeeding mothers and babies fo...
Lisa Marasco
Lisa Marasco has been working with breastfeeding mothers and babies for over 20 years as a La Leche League Leader, a private practice consultant, and most recently as a Lactation Consultant for the WIC (Women, Infants & Children) program. She holds a Master’s degree in Human Development with Specialization in Lactation (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and its possible relationship to milk production problems,) She specialises in milk production and recently co-authored The Breastfeeding Mother’s Guide to Making More Milk with Diana West. Lisa lives in Santa Maria, California, where she continues to work, research, teach and write.
Prof. Laurie Nommsen-Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLCLaurie Nommsen-Rivers is a research assistant professor at Cincinnati ...
Prof. Laurie Nommsen-Rivers
Laurie Nommsen-Rivers is a research assistant professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in the Division of Neonatology. Laurie has studied and evaluated lay-childbirth support program (doula care)and has tested and confirmed the hypothesis that mother-friendly childbirth practices will decrease the risk of delayed lactogenesis and thereby decrease the risk of weaning prior to 6 weeks postpartum.Through her research, her goal is to contribute to closing the gap between new mothers' breastfeeding goals and the many barriers that stand in the way of meeting those goals.
Dr. Jane Morton, MDDr Jane Morton is Professor of Paediatrics at Stanford University and ...
Dr. Jane Morton
Dr Jane Morton is Professor of Paediatrics at Stanford University and an executive board member of the American Academy Paediatrics. She is Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and Past Director of the Breastfeeding Medicine Program at Stanford University. Dr Morton practices full time paediatrics in California and has completed considerable research on breastfeeding, especially with the pre term infant and milk supply for breastfeeding mothers and she has produced multiple publications and education tools.
Prof. Ruth Lawrence, MD, FAAP, FAACT, D.D. (Honorary)Dr Lawrence is a professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology...
Prof. Ruth Lawrence
Dr Lawrence is a professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and a member of the Division of Neonatology where she has been since completing her fellowship at Yale. She is the Medical Director of the Breastfeeding and Human Lactation Study Center and the Finger Lakes Regional Poison and Drug Information Center. She is the author of Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession and many original articles, chapters and reviews. Ruth is a founding member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, past president and Editor-in-Chief of the new journal, Breastfeeding Medicine, and is now the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Section for Breastfeeding of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Jarold (Tom) Johnston, MSN, CNM, IBCLCTom Johnston is a midwife, lactation consultant, a career soldier, and...
Jarold (Tom) Johnston
Tom Johnston is a midwife, lactation consultant, a career soldier, and a father of seven breastfed children. He has spent his career advocating for the rights of fathers in the perinatal arena and has spoken at the Association of Womens' Health and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) and the International Lactation Consultant's Association (ILCA). In his written work he has advocated for better science in the field of bedsharing and has authored a chapter on the role of the father in breastfeeding for "Breastfeeding in Combat Boots: A survival guide to breastfeeding in the military".
Dr. Lida Lhotska, PhDLida Lhotska studied biology and has Ph.D. in physical anthropology wi...
Dr. Lida Lhotska
Lida Lhotska studied biology and has Ph.D. in physical anthropology with dissertation thesis on Motherhood in Adolescence". She worked for many years at the National Institute for Public Health in Prague, Czech Republic. There she was co-responsible for conducting the nation-wide anthropological surveys of children and adolescents and she coordinated a field team of professionals responsible for the community-based component of a USAID-funded Project on Reduction of Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Diseases in the Czech Republic. Simultaneously she also taught infant feeding, anthropometric methods and clinical anthropology at the 3rd Medical school in Prague. In 1990, she co-founded the first Czech IBFAN group in her country.
In 1994, she joint the nutrition team at UNICEF HQ and worked for 7 years as a senior advisor responsible for policy development, direct support to country programmes and coordination with government counterparts, donors and NGOs in the area of infant feeding and care. Since 2001, she works as Regional Coordinator for Europe of the International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN), and is also responsible for policy guidance and technical support on HIV/Infant feeding and on infant feeding in emergencies, and liaison with international organizations and NGOs. In both her UN and NGO capacity she travelled extensively to both developing and industrialised countries. Her particular interest is in human rights approach to policies and programme implementation.
Bridget Ingle, RM IBCLCBridget spent her early mothering years involved in the Australian Bre...
Bridget Ingle
Bridget spent her early mothering years involved in the Australian Breastfeeding Association. She qualified as an IBCLC in 1992 and had built up a full time private practice prior to joining Health e-Learning. Bridget specialises in complex breastfeeding situations such as cleft lip/palate, persistent thrush and babies who fail to attach. Bridget is a crucial member of the Health e-Learning team.
Dr. Megan Elliott-Rudder, MBBS, Grad Dip Rural GP, Cert IV (Bf Ed)Dr Megan Elliott-Rudder is a rural Australian general/family practitio...
Dr. Megan Elliott-Rudder
Dr Megan Elliott-Rudder is a rural Australian general/family practitioner focusing on obstetric and pregnancy care, a mother and a volunteer breastfeeding counsellor. She is undertaking her PhD with UNSW, "Support for ongoing breastfeeding" which aims to increase exclusivity and duration. Her research uses an intervention to improve conversations about breastfeeding between practice/office nurses and mothers, providing support with a motivational interviewing approach.
Prof. Barbara Morrison, PhD CNM FNPDr. Barbara Morrison is a nurse midwife, family nurse practitioner, an...
Prof. Barbara Morrison
Dr. Barbara Morrison is a nurse midwife, family nurse practitioner, and assistant professor of nursing. She has been working with and for parents and their newborns for 28 years, assisting with their births and early parenting. Her research interests’ focus on breastfeeding, kangaroo (skin-to-skin) care for full-term infants, and developing a hospital environment that promotes, protects and supports breastfeeding. Dr. Morrison has a special interest in the neuro-endocrine and neuro-biological effects of kangaroo care that lead to strong social attachments and exclusive breastfeeding.
Dr. Morrison has been a frequent speaker at local, regional, national and international conferences and meetings. She has spoken on such topics as midwives provision of prenatal care, interruptions to the breastfeeding dyad on the first postpartum day, kangaroo care for full-term infants, family centered maternity care, language of the newborn, and nursing theory. Currently, Dr. Morrison is providing workshops on the evidence for and implementation of kangaroo care with fullterm infants.
Robin Grille, BA (psych), Grad Dip Counselling, Dip Int PsychRobin Grille is a father, a psychologist in private practice with twen...
Robin Grille
Robin Grille is a father, a psychologist in private practice with twenty years' experience, and a parenting educator. His articles on parenting and child development have been widely published in Australia and overseas, translated into several languages. Robin's first book: 'Parenting for a Peaceful World' has received international acclaim and led to speaking engagements around Australia, USA and New Zealand. 'Heart to Heart Parenting' is Robin's second book.
A passionate speaker and social change activist, Robin's extensive research has led him to feel that improved attention to children's emotional needs is the most powerful way to move societies toward sustainability and peace.
Vanessa Sakalidis, B.Health Sci (Hons), PhD CandidateVanessa Sakalidis successfully completed a Bachelor of Health Science ...
Vanessa Sakalidis
Vanessa Sakalidis successfully completed a Bachelor of Health Science with first class honours in Public Health, investigating the sucking dynamics of infants in early lactation. She is currently studying for her PhD at The University of Western Australia under the supervision of Dr Donna Geddes and Professor Peter Hartmann. Her research focuses on infant suck, swallow, breathe coordination during the establishment of lactation in both successfully breastfed infants and infants of mothers experiencing nipple pain. In addition she is using ultrasound imaging to study the influence of birth mode on sucking patterns of breastfed infants.
Ann Sinnott, BA (Hons)Ann has a background in health journalism. As a freelance, she wrote f...
Ann Sinnott
Ann has a background in health journalism. As a freelance, she wrote features for many UK national newspapers and magazines and combined this with mothering. Ann then spent more than 2 years researching long-term breastfeeding, sparked by personal experience when her own daughter chose to breastfeed for six and a half years. In her book, Breastfeeding Older Children, she asks – Is the urge to sustain breastfeeding into middle childhood, and sometimes beyond, linked to the maturation of the immune system? What could we learn from differences in breastfed and non-breastfed toddler behaviour? How do the reported effects of long-term breastfeeding square up with Attachment Theory and the findings of neuroscience? Ann also explores the familial and social pressures on long-term breastfeeding mothers and the impact the practice can have on fathers and the couple relationship.
Pamela Morrison, IBCLCPamela has been speaking and writing on behalf of breastfeeding in the...
Pamela Morrison
Pamela has been speaking and writing on behalf of breastfeeding in the context of HIV since 1995. Having certified as the first IBCLC in Zimbabwe in 1990, she worked in private practice and served as a member of the Zimbabwe National Multi-sectoral Breastfeeding Committee, as a BFHI trainer and assessor, and assisted with development of national Code legislation and HIV policy. She emigrated to Australia in 2003 and subsequently to England in 2005. She served as Co-Coordinator of the WABA Task Force on Human Rights from 2001 to 2002 and as Co-ordinator of the WABA Breastfeeding and HIV from 2005 to 2009. She currently serves on the ILCA Ethics and Code Committee.
Anne Hagen-GrøvslienAnne was involved in the process starting a milk bank in 1995 at Riksh...
Anne Hagen-Grøvslien
Anne was involved in the process starting a milk bank in 1995 at Rikshospitalet University Hospital (now called Oslo University Hospital). Norwegian milk banks have along history of using raw milk. Since then she has run the milk bank and has been involved in the work writing a guideline administrated by the Norwegian Directorate of Health.
Anne is a National qualified lactation consultant and she works with mothers at the NICU to give unpasteuirised breastmilk to the babies. She is involved in the voluntary humanitarian organisation ”Ammehjelpen”. It is a network of women who are working for a breastfeeding friendly society through mother-to-mother support for breastfeeding.
Since 2002 she has been the leader of the Norwegian Milk bank Organization.
