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Dr. Samar Ghazal/ Musmar was born in 1957 in Nablus/Palestine. She got a MBBCH in Medicine and Surgery in 1982 from Egypt and American Board of Family Medicine in 1995 from University of Florida. She became the American Academy of Family Medicine Fellow in 2004. Dr. Musmar was appointed faculty member staff at the University of Florida / School of Medicine in 1995 for a year.

Sonia Semenic, RN, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University and a Nurse Scientist at the McGill University Health Center, Women’s Health Mission. Dr. Semenic has an undergraduate degree in psychology and an applied Masters and PhD in nursing from McGill University, and completed a Canadian Health Services Research Foundation postdoctoral fellowship at the School of Nursing, University of Ottawa.

Howard L Sobel, MD, MPH, is an Internist, Pediatrician and Preventive Medicine Physician and Team Leader for Maternal and Child Health at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Cambodia. He is an incoming member of the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Human Lactation. Dr.

Marie Tarrant, RN, MPH, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong. Dr. Tarrant received her Bachelor and Master of Nursing degrees in Canada, her Master of Public Health degree from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and her doctoral degree from Edith Cowan University in Australia. She teaches epidemiology and public health nursing courses to both undergraduate and graduate nursing students.

Irena Zakarija-Grkovic, MD, FRACGP, IBCLC, PhD

Julie is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health Nutrition. She has a PhD in nutrition epidemiology and a master’s in public health. She is a registered public health nutritionist and a registered dietician in the UK.

Laura Duckett, PhD, MPH, RN, is an Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Center for Spirituality and Healing, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN. She earned her BSN from Duke University, Durham, NC; her MS in Maternal-Child Nursing from the University of Maryland, Baltimore; and her PhD in Educational Psychology and her MPH in Maternal and Child Health from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative Coordinator for Spanish Community Initiative Breastfeeding Committee of the Spanish Pediatric Association

Elizabeth Moore, PhD, RN, IBCLC is an Associate Professor of Nursing at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Dr. Moore obtained her BSN from the University of Rochester in Rochester, NY, her MSN from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC and her PhD in nursing from Vanderbilt University. She was also employed as a hospital based lactation consultant and maternal-infant clinical nurse specialist for many years before assuming her position at the school of nursing in 2005.

Carmen Pallás-Alonso, MD, PhD, is Chief of Neonatology at the 12 de Octubre Hospital in Madrid. She is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Medical School of the Complutense University of Madrid, a member of the Breastfeeding Committee of the Spanish Pediatric Association and member of the Spanish Group of Preventive Activities for Children and Adolescents (PrevInfad).

Roger A. Edwards, ScD is currently an Assistant Professor at Northeastern University in the Bouvé College of Health Sciences in Boston, MA. His prior work includes over two decades of experience in academia, industry, and government related to the diffusion of health and medical innovations. Dr. Edwards holds an A.B. in Human Biology from Stanford and an M.S. in Health Services Research from Stanford. He received a Sc.D.

Aimee Eden, PhD, MPH, is a medical anthropologist and qualitative researcher at the American Board of Family Medicine (the ABFM). Dr. Eden also holds a master’s degree in international development and is a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Kazakhstan 2000-2002). She currently serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners (IBLCE), and is a board member of the Monetary Investment for Lactation Consultant Certification (MILCC).