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Breastfeeding in the Bay State 2007


                                                       
Mass BFC baby Monday September 24
8:25am-4:15pm
Massachusetts Medical Society Headquarters
Waltham, MA

Keynote Speaker: Michael Wertheimer, MD
Director, Cambridge Breast Center
"Masses, mastitis, and more: a breast surgeon's perspective"
 
6.25 credits of physician CME including up to 3.25 credits in Risk Management
We have applied for nursing contact hour CEU, and Lactation Consultant CERP


Jointly sponsored by: Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition  and
University of Massachusetts Medical School, Office of Continuing Education
   
Costs: $95 for all attendees except for physicians requesting CME
$120 for physicians requesting CME

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Click here to download pdf brochure and to register by mail

Program:

Morning Plenary Sessions
7:30-8:25 Registration, continental breakfast
8:25-8:30 Welcome
8:30-9:30 Breastfeeding the near-term infant*  Leslie Kerzner, MD 
9:30-10:30 Masses, mastitis, & more: A breast surgeon's perspective*  Michael Wertheimer, MD
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15  Achieving duration: Creating workplace solutions Judith Casey, MSW, moderator
Naomi Bar Yam, PhD
Kirsten Berggren, PhD, author of Working without Weaning
Carla Moquin, MomsRising advisory board, parenting in the workplace expert
12:15-1:15 Lunch (included)
1:15-2:30 Afternoon Breakouts: Session 1
a) Starting out with skin to skin Alison Stuebe, MD
b) Updates in breastfeeding research Anne Merewood, MPH, IBCLC
c) Breastfeeding and the obesity epidemic Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
2:30-2:45 Break
2:45-4:00 Afternoon Breakouts Session 2
d) Insufficient milk: real or imagined Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
e) Innovations in outpatient lactation support
Lucia Jenkins, RN IBCLC; Rosalie Girard, IBCLC
f) Updates in medications and breastfeeding* Melissa Bartick, MD, MS
4:00-4:15 Evaluations and wrap-up
* denotes Risk Management CME

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For questions, contact us at conference@massbfc.org.



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