NZLCA 2014 Seminar Series

Dr Hazelbaker has been in private practice for nearly 40 years. She has been cross trained in several modalities to best assist her clients. She is a licensed massage therapist, a craniosacral therapist, a pre and perinatal educator, a certified Rhythmic Movement practitioner, and an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She teaches the series of classes that comprise the Certified Independent Lactation Therapist Diploma program that features craniosacral therapy as the foundational skill.

Dr Todd is Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University Medical School, and CMO in the Department of Neonatology at the Centenary Hospital for Women and Babies in Canberra, Australia. He has been working in Neonatology for 34 years - first as a scientist obtaining a MSc and PhD in Neonatal respiratory physiology and pathology and then studying medicine to qualify in 1999. His main areas of interests are 1) infant ventilation and the development of the newborn lung, 2) retinopathy of prematurity and 3) infant nutrition including breastfeeding and the treatment of tongue tie in problematic breastfeeding. He was first trained to divide tongue ties in Southampton UK in 1999 and then on returning to Westmead Hospital in Sydney in 2002 started up the practice of tongue tie division there. He moved to Canberra in 2006 and has been treating babies with tongue tie and breastfeeding difficulties since that time.

Alison Baum is the CEO and Founder of Best Beginnings, which she set up in 2006 as a catalyst for change to radically reduce child health inequalities in the UK. Best Beginnings works collaboratively, innovatively and from the evidence base to help parents make positive healthcare choices and enable professionals to support those choices.

Using her leadership and executive production experience from her days at the BBC, Alison has pioneered the development of innovative resources including DVDs, art and mobile apps to support the emotional and physical transition to parenthood. Before setting up Best Beginnings, Alison was a producer and director for the BBC. She made science and health programmes such as Horizon and Animal Hospital and played a key role in the BBC internal change programme. 

Alison has an MA from Oxford University in Pure and Applied Biology and an MSc from UCL in Neuroscience.

Jennifer has practiced holistic lactation and guided parents in raising their children holistically for over 25 years. A fascination with the physiology of wellness has led her on a 30-year journey exploring the influences on infant well-being that come to define longterm human well-being. She has come to focus her interest in the areas of epigenetics and the microbiome, gut-brain health, airway function and oral functional competency, exploring the profoundly far-reaching implications of this work for breastfeeding dyads.

While residing between the USA & France, Jennifer established an international client base and now sees most of her clients on-line, specialising in helping dyads with complex breastfeeding issues. Her reputation for guiding parents through these issues stems from her ability to integrate holistic modalities and an expanded skill-set, such as metabolic assessment and myofunctional therapy, into her practice.

She is a writer and lecturer, offering workshops internationally and via webinar on breastfeeding & epigenetics, gut health & healing, tongue-tie & airway development and holistic breastfeeding practices. After a decade in development, she now offers a year-long advanced course in Integrative and Holistic Lactation. She is a founding member of IATP (the International Affiliation of Tongue-tie Professionals) and is the Breastfeeding Section Leader of the AAPMD (American Academy of Physiological Medicine and Dentistry) and founder of the Holistic Lactation Institute. Jennifer is the mother of three children born at home in 1988, 1992 and 1998 and a granddaughter born at home in 2009.

Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a health psychologist, IBCLC and the owner and editor-in-chief of Praeclarus Press, a small press specializing in women's health. Dr. Kendall-Tackett is editor-in-chief of the journal, Psychological Trauma and was founding editor-in-chief of Clinical Lactation, a position she held for 11 years. She is Fellow of the American Psychological Association in Health and Trauma Psychology, past president of the APA Division of Trauma Psychology, and a member of APA’s Publications and Communications Board.

Dr. Hale is Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Dean of Research at Texas Tech University School of Medicine. He is the founder and director of the Infant Risk Center, a national call center for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. He holds degrees in Pharmacy and a Ph.D. in Pharmacology and Toxicology and is widely experienced in Pediatric and Breastfeeding Clinical Pharmacology.

He is a well-known international lecturer in the pharmacology of lactation and is the author of five books including: Medications and Mothers’ Milk, the top-selling drug reference manual in the world. His other books include Textbook of Human Lactation; Clinical Therapy in Breastfeeding Women; and Drug Therapy and Breastfeeding. 

He is considered by many to be one of the world’s leading authorities in the use of medications in breastfeeding women.