A call to action: Improving human milk & breastfeeding outcomes by prioritizing effective initiation of lactation

Medela’s Breastfeeding & Lactation Symposium 2023 featured a world-class agenda for healthcare professionals keen to learn about the latest scientific evidence in the field of human milk and lactation towards improving the quality of lactation care and infant feeding.

The agenda included the following lectures:

• Lactation as a biological system: The dynamics of human milk composition (Prof. Lars Bode, USA)
• Lactation as a biological system: The importance of dose (Prof. Donna Geddes, Australia)
• A call to action: Improving human milk & breastfeeding outcomes by prioritizing effective initiation of lactation (Prof. Diane Spatz, USA)
• Initiation of lactation: Prophylactic lactation support as Standard of Care for mothers of NICU infants (Dr Rebecca Hoban, Canada)
• Improving survival & outcomes for preterm infants through optimizing early maternal breast milk: A national quality improvement toolkit from BAPM (Dr Sarah Bates)
• Prioritizing own mother‘s milk in the neonatal unit: Need for standardized metrics that capture lactation and infant feeding (Prof. Neena Modi)

This webinar features the lecture of Prof. Diane Spatz: A call to action: Improving human milk & breastfeeding outcomes by prioritizing effective initiation of lactation. 

Diane L. Spatz, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN is a Professor of Perinatal Nursing & the Helen M. Shearer Professor of Nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing sharing a joint appointment as a nurse researcher and director of the lactation program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and the clinical coordinator of the CHOP Mothers’ Milk Bank.

This course is CPD (Continuing Professional Development) certified.