Third Annual Summit on Breastfeeding Participants

Ruth A. Lawrence, MD †

 Third Annual Summit Chair

 Professor of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology

 Department of Pediatrics

 University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Cynthia R. Howard, MD, MPH †

 Third Annual Summit Co-Chair

 Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Community and Preventive Medicine

 Department of Pediatrics

 University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

The Honorable Thomas Harkin

Senator, Iowa

United States Senate

Rachel Abramson

 Executive Director

 HealthConnect One

Mary S. Applegate, MD, MPH

 Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

 University at Albany School of Public Health

Mitchell Balk

 President

 The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation

Cathy Barry-Ipema

 Chief Communications Officer

 The Joint Commission

Melissa Bartick, MD, MSc

 Hospitalist and Instructor in Medicine

 Cambridge Health Alliance and Harvard Medical School

Laurie Beck, MSN

 President

 United States Lactation Consultant Association

Bette Begleiter, MSW

 Deputy Executive Director

 Maternity Care Coalition

The Honorable Terry Bellamy

 Mayor

 City of Asheville, North Carolina

William H. Bentley, MSW

 President and CEO

 Voices for America's Children

Jeanne Blankenship

 Vice President

 Policy Initiatives and Advocacy

 American Dietetic Association

 Chair-Elect

 United States Breastfeeding Committee

Lorraine C. Boyd, MD, MPH

 Medical Director

 Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health

 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Michelle G. Brenner, MD

 Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

 Eastern Virginia Medical School

Aileen G. Buckler, MD, MPH

 Commander

 United States Public Health Service

 Population Health Physician Analyst

 TRICARE Management Activity

 U.S. Department of Defense

Gerald Calnen, MD †

 President

 Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

 Practicing Pediatrician

 ProHealth Physicians

Cathy Carothers, BLA

 Co-Director

 Every Mother, Inc.

Caroline J. Chantry, MD

 Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

 Department of Pediatrics

 University of California Davis Medical Center

Nancy Chin, PhD, MPH †

 Associate Professor

 Department of Community and Preventive Medicine

 University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Gail C. Christopher, DN

 Vice President for Program Strategy

 W.K. Kellogg Foundation

David L. Clark, LLB (Hons), Dip. Leg. Stud.

 Legal Officer

 Nutrition Section

 UNICEF

Ryan Comfort

 Founder and Chief Empowerment Officer

 Milk for Thought

The Honorable Joy Cooper

 Mayor

 City of Hallandale Beach, Florida

 Chair

 Women Mayors' Caucus

 National Conference of Mayors

Deborah Dee, PhD, MPH

 Lieutenant Commander

 United States Public Health Service

 Senior Scientist

 Applied Sciences Branch

 Division of Reproductive Health

 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Barbara A. Dennison, MD

 Director

 Health Policy and Research Translation Unit

 New York State Department of Health

Diana N. Derige

 Program Officer

 Food, Health and Well-Being

 W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Brian Dobbins, JD

 Executive Director West

 United Healthcare

Ann M. Dozier, PhD

 Associate Professor

 Division of Social and Behavioral Medicine

 Department of Community and Preventive Medicine

 University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry

Robert Drago, PhD

 Director of Research

 Institute for Women's Policy Research

Virginia Elliott, MEd

 Vice President for Programs

 United Methodist Health Ministry Fund

Thomas Farley, MD, MPH

 New York City Health Commissioner

 New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

Jonathan E. Fielding, MD, MPH, MBA

 Director and Health Officer

 Los Angeles County Department of Public Health

 Chair

 Partnership for Prevention

 Professor

 UCLA School of Public Health

Geraldine Hirsch Fitzgerald, MSN

 Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

 National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners

Reverend Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., DMin

 President and Founder

 Healing of the Nations Foundation

 Senior Minister Emeritus

 The Riverside Church, New York

Aimee Gallagher, MPH

 Director

 Health Policy and Communications

 National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health

Shelly Galvin

 Program Officer

 The Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation

José Gorrín-Peralta, MD, MPH

 Professor

 Department of Human Development

 Maternal and Child Health Program

 University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health

Reverend Douglas A. Greenaway, MArch, MDiv

 President and CEO

 National WIC Association

Isadora Hare, MSW

 Perinatal Health Specialist

 Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services

 Maternal and Child Health Bureau

 Health Resources and Services Administration

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Michael Hawkins, MD

 Senior National Medical Director

 Maternity Programs

 OptumHealth

Suzanne G. Haynes, PhD

 Senior Science Advisor

 Office on Women's Health

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Karen Hench

 Captain

 United States Public Health Service

 Deputy Director

 Division of Healthy Start and Perinatal Services

 Maternal and Child Health Bureau

 Health Resources and Services Administration

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Nancy Hurst, PhD

 Director

 Women's Support Services

 Texas Children's Hospital

 Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

 Baylor College of Medicine

Gloria Johnson-Cusack, MPA †

 Senior Vice President

 Greer Margolis Mitchell Burns

Jaclyn Kupcha-Szrom, MPA

 Senior Federal Policy Analyst

 Zero to Three

Theresa V. Landau, MS

 WIC Director

 Morrisania Diagnostic & Treatment Center WIC Program

Jessica Lazerov, MD

 Pediatrician

 Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group

 Kaiser Permanente Capitol Hill Medical Center

Nancy C. Lee, MD

 Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health, Women's Health

 Director

 Office on Women's Health

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Marie-Michèle Léger, MPH, PAC

 Director

 Clinical and International Affairs

 Department of Science and Public Health

 American Academy of Physician Assistants

Jeffrey Levi, PhD

 Chair

 White House Advisory Group on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health

 Executive Director

 Trust for America's Health

Ann M. Lichter, JD

 Senior Liaison Officer

 Office of the Administrator

 Wage and Hour Division

 U.S. Department of Labor

Laura E. Lyons

 Breastfeeding Workplace Strategy Intern

 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Kathleen A. Marinelli, MD

 Associate Professor of Pediatrics

 University of Connecticut School of Medicine

 Neonatologist and Lactation Specialist

 Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Rosie Valadez McStay, MPH

 Director of Government and Community Relations

 Texas Children's Hospital

Karen Meehan, MPH

 Breastfeeding Projects Coordinator

 Public Health Foundation Enterprises WIC Program

David Meyers, MD

 Director

 Center for Primary Care, Prevention, and Clinical Partnerships

 Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Suzan Murphy, MPH

 Captain

 United States Public Health Service

 Breastfeeding Support Program Coordinator

 Phoenix Indian Medical Center

 Indian Health Service

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Victoria Nichols-Johnson, MD

 Professor Emerita

 Obstetrics and Gynecology

 Southern Illinois University School of Medicine

Lawrence Noble, MD

 Associate Professor of Pediatrics

 Mount Sinai School of Medicine

 Attending Neonatologist

 Elmhurst Hospital Center

Mary C. Noonan, PhD

 Associate Professor

 Department of Sociology

 University of Iowa

Ana M. Parrilla-Rodríguez, MD, MPH

 Associate Professor

 Maternal and Child Health Program

 University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health

Charles E. Phelps, PhD †

 University Professor and Provost Emeritus

 Departments of Economics and Community and Preventive Medicine

 University of Rochester

Ellen Pliska

 Family and Child Health Director

 Family and Community Health

 Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

Kerri C. Potsko

 Associate Vice President

 Women's Health Service Line

 Geisinger Health System

Tonse N.K. Raju, MD, DCH

 Medical Officer-Program Scientist

 Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch

 Center for Developmental Biology and Perinatal Medicine

 Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

 National Institutes of Health

Linda Randolph, MD, MPH

 President and CEO

 Developing Families Center

Jamila R. Rashid, PhD, MPH

 Associate Director for Research and Policy

 Office of Minority Health

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Phyllis L.F. Rippeyoung, PhD

 Assistant Professor

 Department of Sociology

 Coordinator

 Women's and Gender Studies

 Academic Co-Director

 Atlantic Research Data Center

 Acadia University

Kimberly Roop, MD

 Medical Director

 State Sponsored Business

 WellPoint Companies, Inc.

Cristina Sciuto

 Program Associate for Women's and Infant Health

 Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs

Benson M. Silverman, MD

 Staff Director

 Infant Formula and Medical Foods

 Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

 Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements

 Food and Drug Administration

Ursuline Davis Singleton, MPH

 Public Health Analyst

 Office on Women's Health

 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Diane L. Spatz, PhD

 Helen M. Shearer Associate Professor of Nutrition

 Associate Professor of Healthcare of Women and Childbearing Nursing

 University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

 Nurse Researcher-Lactation

 The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Kinga A. Szucs, MD

 Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

 Indiana University School of Medicine

Tina Tchen, JD

 Executive Director

 White House Council on Women and Girls

Joseph Theissen, PhD

 Senior Vice President for Policy

 Voices for America's Children

Cynthia R. Tuttle, PhD, MPH

 National Program Leader, Health and Wellness

 Division of Family and Consumer Sciences

 National Institute of Food and Agriculture

 Institute of Youth, Family and Community

 U.S. Department of Agriculture

Christopher L. Wade, MD, MPH †

 Kaiser Permanente

 Southern California Permanente

 Medical Group Regional Administration

 Systems Solutions & Deployment—HealthConnect Systems Integration

Todd Wolynn, MD

 CEO

 National Breastfeeding Center

 President

 Kids Plus Pediatrics

 Executive Director

 Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh

Michal A. Young, MD

 Associate Professor and Chairman

 Director

 NICU and Newborn Services

 Department of Pediatrics and Child Health

 Howard University College of Medicine

 Howard University Hospital

Kristin E. Younger, JD, MPH

 Public Health Analyst

 Division of Quality, Evaluation, and Health Outcomes

 Center for Medicaid, CHIP and Survey and Certification

 Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Bonnie L. Zell, MD, MPH

 Principal

 Zell Community Health Strategies, LLC

 Past Senior Director

 Population Health

 National Quality Forum