Speaking and Distinctions

Professional speaking engagements

• Gold Lactation Conference 2024, session on: Research parade: reviewing the latest evidence in order to apply it to your lactation practice, April 2025.
• Gold Lactation Conference 2024, invited to the Panel discussion on: Evidence-informed lactation care: navigating practice among research gap, April 2024.
• Gold Lactation Conference 2024, session on: Research parade: reviewing the latest evidence in order to apply it to your lactation practice, April 2024.
• Gold Lactation Conference 2022, session on: Supporting breastfeeding infants with clefts, April 2022.
• UNICEF Baby-Friendly annual Conference, Poster:The Specialist Breastfeeding Clinic: creating a how-to manual to support Health Visiting and Midwifery, 22-23 of November 2022.
• Master Programme in Obstetrics and Midwifery Care, Dept of Obstertics & Gynaecology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Supporting breastfeeding in infants with clefts, September 2022.
• California Bay Area Lactation Associates, Supporting breastfeeding in infants with clefts, September 2022.
• Gold Lactation Conference 2022, Assisted Nursing: Supporting Breastfeeding Infants With Craniofacial Anomalies, 25 of April, 2022, live online.
• University College, Anglo-European College of Chiropractic 2018 CPD Seminar “Musculoskeletal Issues in the Breastfeeding Neonate“, keynote speaker and main presenter.

• ILactation Conference, session titled: Tales of hope, patience, and oxytocin: supporting non-latching babies, September 15-November 15, 2017.

• CPD Paediatric day for the Oxfordshire Osteopathic Network, session titled: The use of Intra Oral Digital examination to assess Ankyloglossia and different Assessment tools, at the McTimoney Chiropractic College, Oxfordshire, 25 of March 2017.

• UNICEF Annual update for Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent Partnership NHS Trust, session titled: Supporting breastfeeding dyads with colic, reflux, oversupply and food intolerances/allergies, Stafford, UK, 19 of October 2016.

• The Art and Science of breastfeeding, Breastfeeding Introductory Study Day, Berlin, Germany, May 7, 2016.

• The Doula UK Conference: Positive Birth supporting families, session titled: Exploring the Plethora of Tongue Tie symptoms, London, UK, March 19, 2016.

• How We Birth Seminar with Michel Odent and Liliana Lammers, sessions titled: Breastfeeding initiation: maintaining normality and a Clinical session on tongue ties and common breastfeeding complications, Berlin Germany, 19-21 of February 2016.

Distinctions/scholarships

•  National Institute for Health Research  ARC NWL Improvement Leadership Fellowship awarded in 2021-2022. My project will examine how to offer more skilled breastfeeding and lactation care in the NHS nationally.
• Findhorn Foundation bursary to attend 2016’s New Year’s Retreat: Turning within and moving forwards, Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, UK.
• International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) scholarship to attend 2013 ILCA Conference in Melbourne, Australia.
• Lactation Consultants Great Britain scholarship to attend the 2013 and 2012 ILCA Conferences in Orlando, USA, and Melbourne Australia.
• Schumacher College bursary to study Wild Plants as Food and Medicine course, Devon, UK, 2010.
• British Council Scholar, Master in Public Policy, the London School of Economics, London, UK, 1996-1997.
• Institute of International Education scholar, Bachelor of Arts at Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA,1991-1994.

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