SPEAKERS FOR 2012 CONFERENCE

Thomas W. Hale, PhD

Professor of Pediatrics and Assistant Dean of Research at Texas Tech University School of Medicine.

Author of Medications and Mothers’ Milk, the top-selling drug reference manual in the world.

One of the world’s leading authorities in the use of medications in breastfeeding women.

Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC, FAPA

A health psychologist and an IBCLC.  Dr. Kendall-Tackett is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Texas Tech University School of Medicine in Amarillo, Texas,, She is the Editor-in-Chief of Praeclarus Press, Associate Editor of the Journal Psychological Trauma, and Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Lactation and author of numerous book and articles on topics of trauma, women’s health, depression, and breastfeeding.

AGENDA

7:30  am   Registration open

8:00          Introductions

8:15          Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws      

                 for Nursing Mothers - Kendall-Tackett

9:15          Using Medications in Breastfeeding Mothers - Hale

10:45        Break

11:00        How Breastfeeding Prevents Metabolic  Syndrome

                 and Cardiovascular Disease in Mothers -

                 Kendall-Tackett 

12:15        Lunch

1:00         A New Paradigm for Depression in New Mothers: 

                How Inflammation Increases Mothers’ Risk for

                Depression and How Breastfeeding Protects Them -   

                Kendall-Tackett

2:00          Antidepressants and Breastfeeding - Hale

2:45          Break

3:00         Anesthetic / Epidural medications and their Impact

                on Breastfeeding - Hale  

4:00         Candida Albicans: All the details - Hale  

4:30         Adjourn