Overview
The Core Content of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Course is a comprehensive course of the basics in this field of medicine. The Core content course is comprised of 30 individual sessions that are designed to prepare physicians and other providers (physician assistants, nurse practitioners, midwives) to provide evidence-based anticipatory guidance and management of typical breastfeeding and lactation problems seen in primary care.
This course is a prerequisite for Deep Dive, which is a 2 year longitudinal curriculum designed to prepare physicians and other providers who plan to specialize in Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.
The list of sessions include:
- Breast Anatomy
- Lactational Physiology
- Components of Breastmilk and Risks of Not Breastfeeding
- Latch, Positioning, and Exam of the Dyad
- The Immediate Postpartum Period
- Breastfeeding Policies
- Cases in the Management of Immediate Postpartum Problems
- Pump Technology, Devices, and Milk Storage
- Overproduction of Milk
- Low Milk Production
- Supplementation Methods
- Cases in Low Milk Production
- Breastfeeding Management in the First Week Postpartum
- Challenging Cases in the First Week Postpartum
- Differential Diagnosis of Sore Nipples and Breasts
- Case Discussion of Sore Nipples and Breasts
- Breast Masses, Imaging, and Abscess Management
- Peripartum Mental Health
- Breastfeeding the Infant with Health Problems
- Medications During Lactation
- Pump Demonstration
- Prenatal Counseling
- Infant Musculoskeletal Issues that Affect Breastfeeding
- Back to Work or School and Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Management of the NICU Infant
- Fortification of Breastmilk
- Ankyloglossia
- Other Infant Feeding Problems
- Induction of Lactation
- Tandem Nursing and Weaning
Accreditation
CMEs: The AAFP has reviewed these Breastfeeding Medicine Topics for Physicians and other Providers and deemed this bundle of sessions acceptable for up to 28.75 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CERPS: These sessions have been allocated 28.75 (L) CERPs recognized by IBLCE. Long Term Provider #117-04.
Nursing Credits: All state boards for nursing licensure approve of educational offerings that are approved by the American Nursing Credentialling Center (ANCC). According to ANCC Certification, the continuing education hours approved by the AAFP and AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ meet the requirement of formally approved continuing education hours and may be used as such for ANCC Certification renewal. https://www.nursingworld.org/certification/faqs/
Speaker Biographies:
Dr. Mitchell is a board-certified general surgeon, fellowship-trained breast surgical oncologist, international board-certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) and perinatal mental health provider (PMH-C). As an international expert on breast cancer and lactation, she has been performing breast surgery for nearly twenty years, and is a leader in promoting breast conserving surgery and the psychosocial health of breast cancer survivors. In addition to her breast surgery work, Dr. Mitchell sees patients daily in her breastfeeding medicine practice and created and maintains the PhysicianGuidetoBreastfeeding.Org, an evidence-based resource for breastfeeding families and care providers. She has additional certification in perinatal mental health and provides medication management of these conditions. In her free time, she enjoys spending time at the beach with her family, camping, and reading.
Anne Eglash MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to practicing family medicine, she has been a board-certified lactation consultant since 1994.
Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine, has been the lead author on several Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine protocols, and was an associate editor for Breastfeeding Medicine Journal.
She co-hosts and produces a breastfeeding medicine podcast series, called The Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast. She is the founder and president of the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education.
Dr. Simon works as a Pediatric Critical Care attending at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a unique combination of expertise and board certifications in Pediatric Critical Care and Lactation and Breastfeeding Medicine; she is also highly knowledgeable in Palliative Care.
She is actively engaged in education and research to advance breastfeeding care for hospitalized children, particularly in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). She is an IBCLC, a Fellow of the ABM, and a Board member of IABLE.
Her experience spans healthcare systems in Brazil, Montreal and the US and, while speaking multiple languages, she is passionate to providing culturally sensitive, comprehensive and compassionate care.
She has 3 teenage girls, all of whom were breastfed.
Dr. Elizabeth Goetz is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Madison and is the Medical Director of the Newborn Nursery at Meriter Hospital. Dr. Goetz attended medical school at the University of Minnesota and completed a pediatrics residency at the University of Wisconsin. For over twenty years Dr. Goetz has been providing clinical care to newborns. Clinical and research interests include neonatal hypoglycemia, early onset sepsis, neonatal abstinence syndrome and early identification and prevention on congenital CMV. Dr. Goetz is a registered IBCLC and is actively involved with promoting and improving breastfeeding rates and experiences for women in Madison, Wisconsin.
Kathy Leeper, MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM first worked as a general pediatrician, obtained her IBCLC in 2000, and helped develop a nonprofit breastfeeding center in Lincoln, Nebraska called MilkWorks, which opened in 2001. MilkWorks added a location in Omaha, NE in 2015.
She has served as MilkWorks’ Medical Director, practicing breastfeeding medicine exclusively from 2001-present. She joined IABLE in 2014 to serve on the board of directors, teach, and help with the development of educational content. She has also served on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.
Karen Bodnar MD, NABBLM-C, IBCLC, FABM, FAAP, received her BS in Physics from MIT and served as an officer in the US Air Force. She then completed medical school and pediatric residency at the University of Florida. At UF, she also studied to become an Internationally Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC). After completing her training, she spent 5 years in California where she worked in private practice and as an assistant clinical professor of general pediatrics at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. In 2015, she relocated to Virginia and became a pediatric hospitalist, assistant clinical professor at Inova Children’s Hospital, and medical director of the Inova Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. She is a fellow of both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM), a past board member of IABLE, and is a current board member of ABM. She is a cohost of the Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast series.
Dr. Chandria Lynn Johnson is an OB/GYN hospitalist at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, MO. She has been an IBCLC since 2019 and is board certified in breastfeeding and lactation medicine. In addition to her hospitalist duties, she has a micro clinic practice where she collaborates with a hospital based midwifery group and sees breastfeeding patients. Dr. Johnson is passionate about helping patients with breastfeeding. In her non-work time, she enjoys spending time with her four kids, reading and running.
Sammi Tyler, DO currently lives in Madison, WI where she practices as both a hospitalist in the Neonatal ICU and providing osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) to pediatric, pregnant, and post-partum patients in clinic. She completed pediatrics residency at the University of Wisconsin and completed both medical school training and a fellowship in OMM at Des Moines University in Iowa. Sammi loves hiking in the mountains, practicing yoga on and off her mat, and she’s passionate about helping infants breastfeed more successfully utilizing OMM.
Dr. Laurie Jones is a general pediatrician who trained in Augusta, GA for medical school and completed pediatric residency in Birmingham, AL in 2002. She moved to Arizona in 2003 and practiced inpatient and outpatient general pediatrics in an academic setting at St. Joseph’s Hospital until she joined Agave Pediatrics in 2018. She served in many educational roles in the pediatric residency program, and she was the medical director of the newborn nursery at St. Joe’s for seven years. Dr. Jones has had a special interest in breastfeeding dyads since 2009 and has been a board certified lactation consultant since 2010. She was awarded the designation of Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (FABM) in 2018. Dr. Jones is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Arizona -Phoenix School of Medicine and teaches second and fourth year medical students. She is the founder of Dr. MILK which is a 50,000+ person international support network for physician parents that are breastfeeding, and she is a presenter and speaker for the non-profit IABLE organization that trains physicians in competency-based knowledge and care of lactating parents and their children. She has two school-aged children and enjoys hiking and photography in her free time.
Dr. Stephanie Attarian is an Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee where she practices Neonatology and Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine. After attending medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, she completed training in Pediatrics and Neonatal/ Perinatal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis, MO. During her fellowship training, she observed the gap in evidence-based support for lactating mothers of NICU infants which inspired her to become an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant®, fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, and educator for the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education (IABLE). Dr. Attarian now focuses her academic work on neonatal nutrition and is working to improve breast milk utilization rates, specifically mother’s own milk, in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.