Anne Eglash MD, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to practicing family medicine, she has been a board-certified lactation consultant since 1994.

Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine.

She co-hosts and produces a breastfeeding medicine podcast series, called The Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast, available free on iTunes and IABLE website.

Dr. Eglash is founder and president of IABLE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of breastfeeding-friendly medical systems and communities.

Disclosures
No conflicts of interest.

Nithya Natrajan, MD, FAAFP, CLC is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician and Certified Lactation Counselor with additional clinical experience in women’s health, infertility, and hormone management.

Through Blossoming Mamas: 4th Trimester Care, she provides physician-led virtual care to patients throughout South Carolina and Georgia. Her services include perinatal support, breastfeeding medicine, lactation counseling, and infertility & pregnancy loss support. Through her practice, Dr. Natrajan strives to nurture and empower new parents during the 4th trimester and beyond as their family grows.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Natrajan is on the inaugural board of the Center for 4th Trimester Care, a Medical Content Expert and writer for the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding & Lactation Education, a moderator for Dr. MILK (an online lactation support community for physicians), and co-hosts Masala Chai with Dr. Aunties (a YouTube Channel focused on 4th trimester care and parenting).

Allison Reiter, MD, FACOG is a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist. Dr. Reiter works as a full scope OBGYN physician with Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Northern Virginia. Dr. Reiter is passionate about improving postpartum care for women through continued study in breastfeeding medicine as well as perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Anne Eglash MD, IBCLC, FABM, is a clinical professor with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. In addition to practicing family medicine, she has been a board-certified lactation consultant since 1994.

Dr. Eglash is a cofounder of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, the Medical Director and cofounder of the Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, and the Medical Director of the University of Wisconsin Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic. She has published many peer- reviewed articles on breastfeeding medicine.

She co-hosts and produces a breastfeeding medicine podcast series, called The Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast, available free on iTunes and IABLE website.

Dr. Eglash is founder and president of IABLE, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the creation of breastfeeding-friendly medical systems and communities.

Disclosures
No conflicts of interest.

April Castillo, MD, MPH, IBCLC is a Preventive Medicine Physician currently engaged in breastfeeding medicine research and clinical practice at Stony Brook University Hospital. She is continuing her research career with a mentored LINCATS-K research career development award, studying the effect of antenatal colostrum collection on lactogenesis. Her clinical work includes breastfeeding and fourth-trimester support including peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, nutrition, induction of lactation and re-lactation support. She works closely with Stony Brook’s WIC program and has a strong interest in improving health equity and decreasing disparities, particularly in maternal and infant health.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Castillo is a moderator for Dr. MILK (an online lactation support community for physicians), a regular guest on The Momversations Project of the Women’s Theater Festival, a blogger about early childhood nutrition @cabbagepatchdocs, and a mother of three. She is also completing longitudinal research on the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines and breastfeeding.

Janean Wedeking, DO, IBCLC is a full scope family medicine physician. Born and raised in Iowa, she completed her undergraduate degree at Wartburg College in Waverly, IA her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree at Des Moines University in Des Moines, Iowa and her family medicine residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center/Offutt Air Force Base in Omaha, Nebraska. Long term, she plans to practice full scope family medicine in rural Iowa with a special interest in maternal/infant care and breastfeeding medicine. She enjoys a sustainable living, staying active, and spending time with family.

Katrina B. Mitchell, MD, is a board-certified general surgeon, fellowship-trained breast surgical oncologist, and international board certified lactation consultant (IBCLC) whose practice includes the care and surgery of women with breast cancer and benign breast disease. She also treats maternal complications of lactation, and has a special interest in pregnancy and postpartum breast cancer.

She resides in Santa Barbara, California and practices at the Ridley Tree Cancer Center at Sansum Clinic. She enjoys reading, traveling, and spending time with her son at the beach. More information about her clinical and educational interests is available at physicianguidetobreastfeeding.org.

Disclosures
No conflicts of interest.

Dr. Sriraman, MD, MPH, FAAP, FABM is a mother, wife, a board-certified academic pediatrician and an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Eastern Virginia Medical School-Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters. She is also Faculty in the Department of EVMS OB-Gyn at the Center for Maternal & Child Health and Advocacy. She is the author of “Return to You: A Postpartum Plan for New Moms.”
She has an MPH from the University of Pittsburgh and has designed curriculum for both public health and breastfeeding training within pediatrics.
She has spoken internationally and is a recognized expert on breastfeeding, postpartum depression. She is tri-lingual and has published about cultural, linguistic and racial differences with respect to breastfeeding and maternal mental health.
She is a strong advocate for moms and babies and has worked with the Governor’s office on having May declared as Maternal Mental Health Month in Virginia; she has also lobbied in Washington for women to have protected time and lactation space in the workplace.
In the AAP, she has served as the Equity, Diversity, Inclusion (EDI) Champion as well as Education Chair for the Section of Breastfeeding. She is currently the Vice-President of the Virginia AAP Chapter and the Honorary Chair of the Postpartum Support Virginia.
In her free time, she likes to run, do yoga, read and spend time on the beach with her husband and 4 babies (3 human, 1 canine).

Nithya Natrajan, MD, FAAFP, CLC is a Board Certified Family Medicine Physician and Certified Lactation Counselor with additional clinical experience in women’s health, infertility, and hormone management.

Through Blossoming Mamas: 4th Trimester Care, she provides physician-led virtual care to patients throughout South Carolina and Georgia. Her services include perinatal support, breastfeeding medicine, lactation counseling, and infertility & pregnancy loss support. Through her practice, Dr. Natrajan strives to nurture and empower new parents during the 4th trimester and beyond as their family grows.

In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Natrajan is on the inaugural board of the Center for 4th Trimester Care, a Medical Content Expert and writer for the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding & Lactation Education, a moderator for Dr. MILK (an online lactation support community for physicians), and co-hosts Masala Chai with Dr. Aunties (a YouTube Channel focused on 4th trimester care and parenting).

Philip O. Anderson, Pharm.D., FCSHP, FASHP is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Pharmacy at the UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences where he heads the course on drug information.

Dr. Anderson has lectured and published extensively on drug use during breastfeeding including in professional journals and textbooks, including original research on drug excretion into breastmilk. Dr. Anderson founded the LactMed® database, which is a National Library of Medicine database. He continues to write all LactMed® records and to expand the database. He has authored the medication appendix to the popular handbook, The Nursing Mothers’ Companion and the chapter Medications and breastfeeding in the Breastfeeding handbook for physicians, 3^rd edition, published by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists & the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Anderson is a member of the Editorial Board and the Pharmacology Editor of Breastfeeding Medicine, and writes a monthly column on medication use during breastfeeding for the journal. He has also been a consultant to the US Food and Drug Administration on the topic of drug labeling with respect to use during lactation.

Dr Anderson has been a consultant to MotherToBaby, San Diego in the UCSD Department of Pediatrics since 1979, and a charter member of its Scientific Advisory Board and Breastmilk Repository Steering Committee. He is also a charter member of the Board of Directors of the San Diego Milk Bank and a consultant on medications in donated breast milk for the Human Milk Banking Association of North America.

Disclosures
No conflicts of interest.

Dr Yvonne LeFort is a Canadian-trained Family Doctor and an IBCLC who has practiced Breastfeeding Medicine in Auckland New Zealand for over 20 years. She is a Fellow of and an elected Board member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

She has addressed many topics in Breastfeeding Medicine both nationally and internationally over the years and particularly enjoys providing educational sessions for other doctors.

The use of medications in Breastfeeding continues to be a challenging area for most medical practitioners and she has been eager to participate in this innovative means to present key information to our medical colleagues.

She is married to David and they have two grown breastfed sons who grew up enjoying the hiking and great outdoors of New Zealand.