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Thursday, May 21, 2020

2020 Iowa Breastfeeding Conference CANCELLED

Start Date: 5/20/2020 8:00 AM CDT
End Date: 5/21/2020 4:15 PM CDT

Venue Name: FFA Enrichment Center (Located on the DMACC Ankeny Campus)

Location:
1055 SW Prairie Trail Pkwy
Ankeny, IA  United States  50023

Event Website: https://www.unitypoint.org/blankchildrens/classes-and-events-details.aspx?id=5af9548a-2cc8-472d-9997-c8a4e835b8d6&typeid=907c413d-c253-4d0d-9fed-29f5d

Organization Name: Blank Children's Hospital UnityPoint Health

Contact:
Jessica Dinh
Email: Jessica.Dinh@unitypoint.org
Phone: (515) 241-3537

Featured National Speakers:

Thomas W. Hale, Ph.D, RPh, is considered by many to be the world’s leading authority in the use of medications in breastfeeding women. Dr. Hale is the University Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Dean of Research at Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the InfantRisk Center, a national call center for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology and is widely experienced in Pediatric and Breastfeeding Clinical Pharmacology. He is a well-known international lecturer in the pharmacology of lactation and is the author of five books including: Medications and Mothers’ Milk, the top-selling drug reference manual in the world. He has authored more than 82 papers, case reports, and abstracts, and 27 books chapters.

Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA, became a board-certified lactation consultant in 1991 and spent 10 years growing a large private lactation practice.  Nancy has three breastfeeding books for parents and two for lactation specialists, including her comprehensive, evidencebased counseling guide, Breastfeeding Answers, now in its second edition, which is expected to be available at this conference. Her Breastfeeding Solutions app is used worldwide, and her YouTube channel has more than 1.3 million views. She currently contracts with hospitals to improve breastfeeding practices, presents a 90-hour training course in China to prepare aspiring lactation consultants for the IBLCE exam, and speaks at events around the world.  Nancy was in the first group of 16 to be honored for her contributions to breastfeeding with the designation FILCA, Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association.

 



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