Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition: Annual Conference

Breastfeeding in the Bay State 2008

Monday, October 6, 2008
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Massachusetts Medical Society Headquarters
Waltham, MA

Cost
General registration (full day)	$95
Physicians seeking CME (full day)	$120
MD workshop only	$85
RN workshop only	$75
Group rates for either workshop, for five or more persons (no CME)	$65

Physician CME, risk management, nursing contact hour CEU and lactation constultant CERP are being applied for and are TBA.

Morning session

7:30 - 8:30

Registration

8:30 - 8:45

Massachusetts Breastfeeding Report Card
Rachel Colchamiro, MPH, RD, Massachusetts Department of Public Health

8:45 - 9:45

Promotion and support of breastfeeding in clinical settings: Perspectives of mothers and clinicians
Elsie Taveras, MD, MPH

9:45 - 10:00

Break

10:00 - 11:00

Delayed lactogenesis*
Kathleen Marinelli, MD, IBCLC

11:00 - 12:30

Research panel
moderated by Anne Merewood, MPH, IBCLC
(includes research on maternal feeding control, prolactin, and "ban the bags")

Afternoon breakouts

1:30 - 2:45

Breakout session 1
1) Breastfeeding the medically complex infant*
Kim Barbas, RN, IBCLC
2) Breastfeeding in Scandinavia: a successful model
Kathy Abbott, IBCLC

3:00 - 4:15

Breakout session 2
3) Practical management of the late pre-term infant*
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC
4) Breastfeeding confidence in African-American mothers
Deborah McCarter-Spaulding, Ph.D, RN, IBCLC

Special bonus session

4:20 - 5:00

The Business Case for Breastfeeding: The Federal Government's New Effort to Promote and Support Breastfeeding in the Workplace
Marsha Walker, RN, IBCLC

Afternoon workshops for physicians and nurses

1:30 - 4:30

Skills workshop for nurses:
An afternoon workshop by nurses for nurses
Gail Levy, RN, IBCLC
Lucia Jenkins, RN, IBCLC

1:30 - 4:30

What every physician needs to know about breastfeeding:
An afternoon workshop by physicians for physicians**
Barbara L. Philipp, MD, FAAP, FABM
Lauren Hanley, MD
Melissa Bartick, MD, MS

*Denotes Risk Management CME

**Includes 1 hour Risk Management CME