Academy of
Breastfeeding Medicine

A worldwide organization of physicians dedicated to the promotion,
protection and support of breastfeeding and human lactation

About ABM

Officers & Board of Directors

OFFICERS / COUNCIL OF ADVISORS

  • President:
    Arthur I. Eidelman, MD, FABM
    Shaare Zedek Medical Center
    Jerusalem, Israel

 

  • Vice President/President Elect:
    Wendy Brodribb, MBBS, FABM
    University of Queensland
    Centenary Heights, Queensland, Australia

 

  • Immediate Past President:
    Gerald Calnen, MD, FABM

    ProHealth Physicians
    Enfield, CT, USA

 

  • Treasurer:
    Timothy Tobolic, MD, FABM
    Byron Family Medicine PC
    Byron Center, MI, USA

 

  • Secretary:
    Kathleen Marinelli, MD, FABM
    Connecticut Children's Medical Center
    University of Connecticut School of Medicine
    Hartford, CT, USA

 

  • Council of Advisors:
    Cynthia Howard, MD, MPH, FABM
    University of Rochester
    Rochester, NY, USA

 

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

 

2012 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

  • Debra Bogen, MD, FABM
    General Academic Pediatrics
    Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA, USA
  • Michelle G. Brenner, MD
    Pediatrics
    Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Norfolk, VA, USA
  • Yoo-Mi Chung, MD, FABM
    Korean Pediatrics Society
    Seoul, South Korea
  • Miriam Labbok, MD, MPH, FABM
    UNC School of Public Health
    Chapel Hill, NC, USA
  • Ruth A. Lawrence, MD, FABM
    University of Rochester School of Medicine
    Rochester, NY, USA
  • Victoria Nichols-Johnson, MD, FABM
    Southern Illinois University
    Springfield, IL, USA
  • Lawrence Noble, MD, FABM
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine
    Elmhurst, NY, USA
  • Ana M. Parrilla-Rodriguez, MD, MPH, FABM
    University of Puerto Rico
    San Juan, Puerto Rico
  • Elien Rouw, MD, FABM
    Well Baby Clinic
    Buhl, Germany
  • Rebecca Saenz, MD, FABM
    MS Breastfeeding Medical Clinic
    Madison, MS, USA
  • Promise Emmanuel Sefogah, MGCPS, MBChB
    Doctors for Right to Health
    Korle Bu, Greater Accra, Ghana
  • Alison Stuebe, MD, MSc
    University of North Carolina School of Medicine
    Chapel Hill, NC
  • Kinga A. Szucs, MD, FABM
    Indiana University School of Medicine
    Indianapolis, IN, USA
  • Julie S. Taylor, MD, MSci
    Alpert Medical School of Brown University
    Providence, RI, USA