Academy of
Breastfeeding Medicine

dedicated to the promotion, protection and
support of breastfeeding and human lactation

About ABM

Officers & Board of Directors

OFFICERS / COUNCIL OF ADVISORS

  • President:
    Gerald Calnen, MD, FABM
    ProHealth Physicians
    University of Connecticut School of Medicine
    Enfield, CT, USA 

 

  • Vice President/President Elect:
    Arthur Eidelman, MD, FABM
    Neonatology
    Jerusalem, Israel  

 

  • Immediate Past President:
    Caroline Chantry

    University of California Davis Medical Center
    Davis, CA

 

  • Treasurer:
    Nancy G. Powers, MD, FABM
    Riordan Distinguished Professor
    Wichita State University
    Wichita, KS, USA

 

  • Secretary:
    Julie K. Wood, MD, FABM
    Family Physician
    Goppert Family Care
    Lee's Summit, MO, USA

 

  • Council of Advisors:

    Lawrence Gartner, MD
    The University of Chicago, Professor Emeritus
    Valley Center, CA, USA

  • Executive Director:
    Karla Shepard Rubinger
    New Rochelle, NY, USA

        

   2010 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Pamela D. Berens, MD, FABM
    Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
    University of Texas at Houston
    Houston, Texas, USA
  • Debra Bogen, MD, FABM
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    General Academic Pediatrics
    Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Michelle Brenner, MD
    Pediatrics
    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Norfolk, VA, USA
  • Wendy Brodribb, MBBS, FABM
    Family Medicine
    Toowoomba, Queensland,
    Australia
  • Kathleen Marinelli, MD, FABM
    Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Pediatrics
    South Glastonbury, CT                            
  • Lawrence Noble, MD
    Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, Pediatrics
    Elmhurst, NY, USA
  • Ana Parrilla-Rodriguez, MD, FABM
    University of Puerto Rico
    San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Elien Rouw, MD
    Preventative Medicine and Public Health
    Well Baby Clinic
    Buhl, Germany
  • Tomoko Seo, MD, FABM
    Department of Neonatology & Pediatrics
    Nagoya City University Medical School
    Nagoya, Japan
  • Alison Stuebe, MD
    University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Chapel Hill, NC
  • Kinga A. Szucs, MD
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    Indianapolis, IN, USA
  • Julie S. Taylor, MD, MSci
    Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island
    Pawtucket, RI, USA