Sarah is a pediatric anaesthesiologist, pain medicine physician and acupuncturist at Children’s National Health System in Washington DC.

She is passionate about perioperative preservation of breastfeeding, and is currently researching the time to recovery of infant feeding reflexes following anaesthesia.

Sarah will be speaking on the effects of labour anaesthesia and analgesia on breastfeeding and non-pharmacological pain management for breastfeeding infants. 

Linda graduated in Medicine with first class Honours from the University of New South Wales.

She trained in dermatology in Sydney and at St John's Institute for Diseases of the Skin in London.

Linda is a Staff Specialist Paediatric Dermatologist at Sydney Children's Hospital and has a special interest in dermatoses of pregnancy and lactation.

Linda will be speaking on dermatological presentations in breastfeeding women.

Treasure is a medicines information pharmacist, pharmacologist, educator and researcher. Her area of expertise is reproductive health. She is a regular presenter for the aligned GP program with the Mater Mothers Hospital, Brisbane and consults on complex cases assessing the safety of drugs in pregnancy and lactation.

Treasure is an Assistant Director of Pharmacy (Practice & Development) Mater Health Services and holds conjoint appointments with the University of Queensland and Bond University. 

Treasure will be speaking on the use of psychotropic medications in breastfeeding women.     

Leonie  is a pre-eminent specialist in Obstetric and Internal Medicine, and Professor of Medicine.  She is a clinician researcher, and leads the Obstetric Medicine Research group within the University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research.  Her work has mostly focussed on medical disorders of pregnancy, obesity, metabolism and breastfeeding.

Currently, she holds a role as Interim Director of Research within Women’s and Newborn Services at RBWH, and is working to establish research programs in breastfeeding, the promotion of normal delivery and compassionate health care

Leonie will be speaking on breastfeeding for the mother with diabetes.

Nikki is a Paediatric ENT Surgeon at Starship Children's Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand with a special interest in Paediatric Airway and Swallowing Disorders.

Nikki works in a multidisciplinary team assessing and treating babies and children with dysphagia and aspiration.

She is also doing a PhD researching “The functional anatomy of sucking and swallowing in breastfeeding infants”.

Nikki will be speaking on infant's suck, swallow and airway protection, and tongue biomechanics and implications for tongue-tie.

Sharon¹s educational and clinical background includes paediatric nursing and midwifery, neonatal intensive care and child, adolescent health nursing and she is an IBCLC.

Sharon¹s passion is to contribute to the growing body of evidence around human lactation, particularly in the areas of preterm infant feeding, low milk supply and sucking anomalies, to facilitate evidence based care of the breastfeeding dyad.

Sharon completed a PhD thesis titled 'The effect of different types of nutrition on the gastrointestinal response of the
preterm infant'  in 2014 with the Hartmann Human Lactation Research group at The University of Western Australia, where she now works as a research fellow.

Sharon will be speaking on tongue-tie and transitioning infants from intragastric feeds to breastfeeding. 

Yvonne is a Canadian-trained family physician based in Auckland New Zealand. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors.

Yvonne established a private Breastfeeding Clinic in Auckland providing comprehensive lactation care for mothers and infants including the management of tongue tie.

Yvonne will be speaking on tongue-tie in clinical practice. 

Gillian is a Neonatal Paediatrician, IBCLC at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Melbourne and established the Mercy Health Breastmilk Bank in 2011.

She has an active interest in research involving breastmilk, breastfeeding, and premature infant neurodevelopmental outcomes. Gillian is also an editorial board member of International Breastfeeding Journal.

Gillian will be speaking on breastfeeding challenges in small and early-term infants.

Lisa is a general practitioner and lactation consultant. She works in breastfeeding medicine at The Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne, Australia, and in private practice.

She is a Principal Research Fellow at the Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University, Australia and is the author of over 90 peer-reviewed articles including the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine’s clinical protocol on mastitis. She is the Editor-in-Chief of International Breastfeeding Journal.

Lisa will be speaking on nipple and breast pain.

Dr Marnie Rowan is a General Practitioner and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant In Perth WA. She has a private breastfeeding medicine practice with an interest in management of breastfeeding in the presence of mental health problems. Marnie also works in the Department of Psychological Medicine at King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women in Perth, Western Australia. 

Marnie will be speaking on Breastfeeding management in the presence of mental health difficulties: the importance of individualised care and the application of 24hour milk production in clinical practice

Susan is a medical epidemiologist and currently works as a Senior Research Fellow and Team Head at the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane. She completed her medical degree at the University of NSW in Sydney in 1991 and subsequently trained in general practice, working in rural and metropolitan NSW and Queensland for 10 years.  In 2004 she moved into fulltime research, completing her PhD in ovarian cancer epidemiology in 2007 at QIMR Berghofer. Her current research interests include the aetiology of ovarian, endometrial, and thyroid cancer and she has a particular interest in how reproductive factors, including breast feeding, influence the development of these cancers.