Description

Cost

There is no cost for this eCourse.
Registration provides access to the eCourse for 1 year.

Overview

This 1-hour course is a recording from a presentation provided by Dr. Lena Barska, a pediatrician and breastfeeding medicine specialist in Ukraine, discussing the state of breastfeeding in Ukraine.

Objectives

• Explain the current state of breastfeeding in Ukraine
• Recite challenges to breastfeeding in Ukraine before the war and due to the war

Topic Outline

• Introduction to the history of Dr. Barska’s practice
• The status of lactation education and services
• Challenges to breastfeeding
• Demographics of breastfeeding
• Violations to the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes
• International Breastfeeding Week in August 2021
• The history of conflicts between Ukraine and Russia
• The impact of the war on infant feeding

Accreditation

CERPs: If Breastfeeding Medicine in Ukraine – eCourse is purchased by December 31st, 2025, this course has been allocated  1 (L) CERP recognized by IBLCE. Long Term Provider #117-04.
If this course is purchased on or after January 1st, 2026, according to the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners® (IBLCE®) Individual CERPs Guide for Recertification, Section IIIA, education that has been awarded educational credit by another board or organization may be counted as CERPs. All IABLE courses both live and enduring are awarded continuing education credits (CMEs) from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Each CME credit can be counted as one CERP.  There is no limit to the number of CMEs that can be counted as CERPs.

Speaker

Lina Barska MD, PhD, IBCLC is a pediatrician from Kharkiv, Ukraine. She is the director and owner of a private pediatric medical center, launched in 2016, where all of the physicians and staff have lactation consultant training. She is the founder of the course entitled “Breastfeeding Medicine for Doctors in Ukraine”, and she has been teaching this course to physicians since 2018. She is currently living in Israel with her husband and 10 year old son Live, until they can safely return to Ukraine.

Conflicts of Interest

None