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DR MICHAL MANSOVSKY

I graduated from BGU, Israel, in 2009, and by 2013 specialized in family medicine. I have been practicing breastfeeding medicine since 2009, and received my Fellowship in BF Medicine in 2019. I was a member of the organizing committee of ABM meetings in Europe since 2017. Since 2018, I am a founding and active board member of IABM – the Israeli Association of Breastfeeding Medicine, and currently, I am secretary of the IABM board. I practice BF Medicine in the north district of Israel and teach breastfeeding to physicians and health care workers all over Israel. I am happy to be a founding member of EABM.

DR CARMELA BAEZA

Dr Carmela is a family medicine MD, bachelor´s degree in Public Health Education, and IBCLC since 2005. She is also a BFHI Evaluator and the co founder and past president of the Spanish Lactation Consultant Association (AECCLM). She works in a private Family Wellness Clinic, Raices, as person in charge of the lactation program, which includes two IBCLCs attending breastfeeding families and an extensive offer of breastfeeding training for health care professionals and breastfeeding peer counsellors. The team has trained over three thousand doctors, midwives and nurses. She is the author of a breastfeeding/parenting book, “Amar con los Brazos Abiertos” (To Love with Open Arms).

DR LARA TAURITZ BAKKER

I graduated from Erasmus University in Rotterdam in January 2021 and am now training to become a family physician. I was inspired to go to medical school after all, when I discovered how little scientific knowledge we have to deal with breastfeeding problems while writing as a science journalist for a major medical magazine (Medisch Contact). I became a student member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine in 2014 and helped organize the European ABM conference in 2018. My master’s thesis, published in Journal of Human Lactation in 2020, focused on the prescription of domperidone by family physicians in cases of lactation insufficiency.

DR REET RAUKAS

I graduated from the University of Tartu as a paediatrician and for more than 30 years I have worked as a neonatologist. Since the mid-1990-ies my main field of interest has been infant and young children feeding, especially breastfeeding. I am a member of Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine since 2010. I have counseled breastfeeding parents and lectured breastfeeding to health care workers. I have been a member of working group to compile Estonian Nutrition Recommendations. I have written several books and articles about children’s health and feeding. I am a member of the Estonian Breastfeeding Promotion Committee.