Ameda speaker profiles
Who has spoken at Ameda’s educational programs?
Since 2003, Ameda has offered more than 150 live educational programs for clinicians presented by world-class researchers and authors who are thought leaders in the field. Ameda’s speakers have included:
Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA, Ameda’s full-time lactation consultant and educational-program administrator lives in the Chicago area. The Breastfeeding Answer Book, which she coauthored with Julie Stock, has sold more than 130,000 copies to clinicians worldwide since its first edition debuted in 1991. In December 2010 the second edition of her book for parents, Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers (coauthored with Kathleen Kendall-Tackett) debuted. Her research-based counseling guide, Breastfeeding Answers Made Simple: A Guide for Helping Mothers, was released by Hale Publishing in July 2010.
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Nils Bergman, MD, MPH, PhD, is a researcher and author from South Africa and is an expert and key thought leader on perinatal neuroscience, neonatology, skin-to-skin contact, and infant care. He has conducted research both in developed and developing countries and in his work as an international public health physician has improved practices by introducing evidence-based strategies in hospitals around the world.
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Suzanne Colson, RN, RM, PhD, is a researcher, educator, and midwife from the U.K. Her groundbreaking research on infants’ inborn feeding behaviors is changing practice worldwide. She worked on the Williams, Hawdon, and DeRooy research team, which examined the effect of breastfeeding and supplementation on metabolic adaptation after birth. She currently lives in Hythe, Kent, U.K. and Paris, France.
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Katherine Dettwyler, PhD is a cultural anthropologist whose book Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives provides cross-cultural insights into breastfeeding that have enabled clinicians to work more effectively with mothers from differing backgrounds. She received the Margaret Mead Award in 1995 for her work in anthropology and taught as Associate Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. She currently teaches anthropology at Millersville University in Millersville, PA
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Catherine Watson Genna, BS, IBCLC is a researcher, author, and practitioner from New York City. Her synthesis of information from the fields of lactation, occupational therapy, and speech-and-language pathology has resulted in new insights that have improved outcomes among breastfeeding babies with neurological challenges and unusual anatomy. She conducted research using ultrasound to examine tongue movements during breastfeeding, and her book Supporting Sucking Skills in Breastfeeding Infants focuses on how anatomical, genetic, and neurological influences affect infant sucking skills.
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Jack Newman, MD, IBCLC, Canadian pediatrician and international breastfeeding advocate, served as a consultant with UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative. Coauthor of The Ultimate Book of Breastfeeding Answers and featured on the DVD Dr. Jack Newman’s Visual Guide to Breastfeeding, he opened Canada’s first breastfeeding clinic in 1984. He has practiced in Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, bringing an international perspective to his breastfeeding programs.
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Kerstin Hedberg Nyqvist, RN, PhD, IBCLC is a prolific researcher and author from Sweden, whose recent findings are changing breastfeeding practices among preterm babies in NICUs worldwide. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Women’s and Children’s Health a the University Hospital in Uppsala, Sweden and has published more than 30 studies or abstracts
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Christina Smillie, MD, FAAP, IBCLC, FABM is a pediatrician and author from CT, whose analysis of infants’ neurobehavioral research and its application to practice has helped clinicians more effectively help mothers overcome breastfeeding difficulties. She is the director of Breastfeeding Resources in Stratford CT and a member of the Board of Directors of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
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Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC is a health psychologist, researcher, and prolific author who has found a paradigm-changing connection between inflammation and depression. She is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Amarillo, TX. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and author, coauthor, or editor of 20 book, including Depression in New Mothers. Her areas of expertise include breastfeeding, postpartum depression, and the long-term health effects of family violence and childhood trauma.
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Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC, textbook author, long-time practitioner, and national breastfeeding advocate, translates research into practice to provides clinicians with the information needed to become more evidence-based. She is author of Breastfeeding Management for the Clinical: Using the Evidence, which is in its second edition. She is also author of Selling Out Mothers and Babies, which examines in the influence of commercial pressures on breastfeeding. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Baby Friendly USA and works as a breastfeeding advocate on the state, national, and international levels.
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