West Michigan Association of Lactation Consultants 18th Annual Breastfeeding Conference - 2019
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Where
Prince Conference Center at Calvin College1800 East Beltline SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49546
Driving Directions
Hotel
Hotel rooms are available onsite at the Prince Conference Center. Contact Prince Conference Center for information
Phone: 616-526-7200
Exhibitors
If you are interested in exhibiting at this well attended breastfeeding educaiton event, please contact us as soon as possible for information on space and fees. Space is limited.Contact
Alice Christensen (Registrar)West Michigan Association of Lactation Consultants
616-245-3456
aachristensen@sbcglobal.net
West Michigan Association of Lactation Consultants
WMALC 18th Annual Breastfeeding Conference
Monday, May 13, 2019 Prince Conference Center * Grand Rapids, MI
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2019 WMALC Conference Agenda
PROGRAM7:30 - 8:30 Registration opens
8:30 - 10:00 The Scientific and Evidence Base for Skin-to-skin Contact
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:45 Kangaroo Mother Care: Restoring the Original Paradigm for Infant Care
11:45 - 1:00 Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Immediate Parent-Infant Skin-TO-Skin Study (IPISTOSS) – Research Update
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 4:15 The Embodiment of the science - the Kangaroula
4:15 Adjourn
SPEAKER
Nils Berman MB ChB, MPH, MD
Dr Bergman graduated at the University of Cape Town, and has worked in South Africa, Ciskei and, Sweden, before working seven years as Medical Superintendent and District Medical Officer at Manama Mission, Zimbabwe. Here he, together with Midwife Agneta Jurisoo, developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature infants right from birth. This resulted in a five-fold improvement in survival of Very Low Birth Weight babies.
He introduced KMC to South Africa in 1995, and after 5 years, KMC became official policy for care of prematures in the hospitals of the Western Cape province. He has given keynote addresses on KMC at International Conferences in six continents, and published articles on a variety of subjects in medical journals. He now researches and promotes KMC fulltime.
He was for 6 years Senior Medical Superintendent of the Mowbray Maternity Hospital (7000 deliveries per year) and five Midwife Obstetric Units (11000 deliveries per year). Dr Bergman continues to live and work in Cape Town, as a Consulting Public Health Physician. He is also an Honorary Research Associate at the Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
Apart from his original degree, he holds a Diploma in Child Health, a Masters degree in Public Health, and a Doctoral degree in Clinical Pharmacology, on the effects of scorpion stings.
He is married to Jill, and father to Rebecka, Simon and Emma.
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