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Plenary Speakers:

• Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers–The State of California’s Breastfeeding Rates: Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC
• The Journey to Strengthening Breastfeeding Support: A Community Effort: Nanette Buenavidez, MSN, RN, CLE,  Luz Chacon, MPH, CLE, Christine Park, MD, MPH, CLE, FAAP, and Mary Woelfel, MPH, IBCLC
• Creating Waves of Meaningful Change: Through Dialogues: Carol Melcher, MPH, BS, RN and Ernelyn Navarro, DM, LCSW, BCC
• Improving Support for Breastfeeding: A National and State Priority: Laurence Grummer-Strawn, PhD, MA, MPA

Summit Workshop Tracks:

Baby-Friendly/Hospital Breastfeeding Care

• Transforming Hospital Culture to Improve Models of Care: Ernelyn Navarro, DM, LCSW, BCC and Anne St. John, MHRD
• Supporting Positive Interactions Between Mothers and their Newborns: Jane Heinig, PhD, IBCLC
• Fast Tracking Baby-Friendly: Lessons from NICHQ Best Fed Beginnings Project: Laurence Grummer-Strawn, PhD, MA, MPA, Judi Nightingale, DrPH, RN, and Sue Burnett, RN, MS, CNS
• Joint Commission: Updates on the Perinatal Care Core Measure Set Requirements: Celeste Milton, MPH, BSN, RN

Public/Community Health Breastfeeding Support

• Supporting the Mother after Hospital Discharge: Successful Support Group Strategies: Katie Hamilton, Susie McCulloch, IBCLC, Nicole Palmer and Christy Jo Hendricks, IBCLC, RLC, Doula​
• Setting the Standard within City and County Government to Establish Lactation Accommodation Policies: Suzanne Haydu, MPH, RD, Genevieve Colvin, IBCLC, Janet Vaughan, MPH, RD, IBCLC, CDE, Alyson Foote, RD, CLE
• Opportunities for Breastfeeding Support in Health Care Reform​: Karen Farley, RD, IBCLC, Jeanne Kettles, MA, DEM, CLE
• Building Sustainable Breastfeeding Networks: Regional Breastfeeding Liaisons: Leslie Kaye, MS, RD, CLC, Sheila Janakos, MPH, IBCLC, RLC, Jennifer Pettus, IBCLC, Robbie Gonzalez-Dow, MPH, RD

Clinical Team Breastfeeding Services

• Support Normal Newborn Baby Behaviors During Post-Partum Transition: Paving the Way to Best Outcomes: Raylene Phillips, MD, MA, FAAP, IBCLC
• Tackling Utilization Review: Avoiding Prolonged Hospitalizations and Re-hospitalizations of Breastfeeding Newborns: Larry Gartner, MD, Eyla Boies, MD, Caroline Chantry, MD
• Common Challenges to the Breastfeeding Dyad: Newborn Tongue Tie and Maternal Medications: James Murphy, MD, FAAP, FABM, IBCLC, Amy Evans, MD, FAAP, CLEC, FABM
• Recognize, Respond, Refer: Avoiding Regret by Approaching Breastfeeding Cases as a Team: Patty Almaguer Auchard, MD, IBCLC