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The IBLCE Board of Directors has sixteen members who serve in an honorary capacity. The Board's composition is balanced to reflect geographical and professional diversity. At least half of the Directors are nominated by delegating organizations and the others are elected to fill designated positions. The Board meets twice a year, but Board and Committee work continues between meetings.

Executive Committee

	Board Chair Claibourne Dungy, MD, MPH, FAAP Dr. Dungy is Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Law, Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa Children's Hospital, the University of Iowa. He served as a Division Director for over 25 years. Dr. Dungy is President of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association and President elect of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. He is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American Board of Pediatrics (ABP), American Pediatric Society and the American Public Health Association. Dr. Dungy currently serves on test writing committees of the ABP. Dr. Dungy conducts research on factors influencing the maternal decision to initiate and continue breastfeeding. He has conducted breastfeeding research in Central America, the Marshall Islands, Nigeria, Romania, and the United Kingdom.
	Vice Chair/Chair Elect Ellen McIntyre, OAM, PhD, IBCLC Ellen McIntyre is an associate professor and manager with the Primary Health Care Research & Information Service (PHC RIS) at Flinders University in South Australia where she conducts applied research to enhance the sharing of knowledge and information among researchers, policy makers and practitioners. She is also a researcher in breastfeeding. Ellen has coordinated breastfeeding education programs for health professionals from 1989 until 2006 and has been an Australian Breastfeeding Association Counselor since 1985. In 2005, Ellen received an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) for service to the community as a lactation consultant and counselor, and through the development and delivery of information and education courses on breastfeeding.
	Secretary Claire Dalidowitz, MS, MA, RD, CD-N Claire Dalidowitz is a registered dietitian who represents the dietetic practice group, Women's Health and Reproductive Nutrition, of the American Dietetic Association. She lives in Connecticut, USA and works as a Clinical Nutrition Manager at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford, Connecticut.
	Treasurer Angela Love-Zaranka, BA, IBCLC, RLC Angela has been a La Leche Leader since 1990 and a Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1997. She has served on several non-profit boards as a member of the finance committee and/or treasurer. She received her undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Washington DC and her graduate work, also at Trinity, is towards a masters of science in administration, specializing in non-profit management. She is an IBCLC in private practice and is the lead Lactation Consultant at DeWitt Army Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia.
	Governance Committee Chair Janet MF Fyle, MA, RM, RN Janet is a Registered nurse and Registered practising midwife. She currently works as Professional Policy Advisor at the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) in the UK and is the lead for all infant feeding issues. Janet represents the RCM on the IBLCE Board of Directors.
	Immediate Past Chair Roberta Hewat, PhD, RN, IBCLC Roberta Hewat is IBLCE’s lactation researcher, an elected position on the Board and the immediate past chair. Breastfeeding has been the focus of her clinical practice, teaching, and research in a career working with childbearing and early childrearing families in hospitals, community health agencies and as faculty at the University Of British Columbia School of Nursing.

Board Members

	Marcia Annamunthodo Allen, RN, BScN, MS(N), IBCLC, RLC Marcia Annamunthodo Allen is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She completed a Master of Science in Community Health Nursing with a Teaching Focus in May 2005 from D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York, USA. She has experience working in both the hospital and community settings in Canada and overseas. She is currently a public health nurse working in both the breastfeeding and childbirth education programs.
	James Akre, BA, MPIA James Akre was born in the USA where he lived until the age of 21, including four years on a Pennsylvania dairy farm which was part of the secondary school complex he attended. His international career began as an adviser to rural populations in Turkey (1966) and Cameroon (1968) in small animal husbandry and farmer cooperatives. After obtaining his master’s degree in economic and social development (University of Pittsburgh, 1972), he worked for more than 30 years with various international organizations focusing on labor and social affairs; technical and material support to the agriculture, education and public health sectors in low-income countries; and public health nutrition, with particular emphasis on feeding infants and young children. He currently serves as a member of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. Jim and his Swiss wife Pia, who is a primary-school health educator, live in Geneva, Switzerland; they have two daughters and a son, and three grandchildren. Besides writing, Jim enjoys running, sailing, photography, and singing classical and contemporary choral works as a member of the Geneva Amateur Operatic Society.
	Maureen Fjeld, PT /OT, IBCLC, RLC Maureen Fjeld is the Director of the Calgary Breastfeeding Centre, Alberta, providing individual private practice consultations and providing education for health care professionals both provincially and nationally. She is the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) delegate to the IBLCE Board. Maureen has been the PL Administrator for LLL Canada, from 1985-1992, President of CLCA, the Canadian National Affiliate of ILCA, 1993-1998, Co-Chair of the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada, 1998-2000, and the immediate Past President of ILCA prior to coming to the IBLCE Board.
	Doris Fok (Mdm Loh Mgiuk Lan), BA, (Postgrad) Dip. In Ed. Doris was the first IBCLC in Singapore and Asia (1992), Country co-coordinator with IBLCE (1993 -2003); First Asian Representative on IBLCE board (2003-2008);Ex-President and current counseling trainer of Breastfeeding Mothers’ Support Group, La Leche League member, Member of International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation, worked with WHO and UNICEF, full time research in human milk and lactation.
	Marcia Lutostanski, BSN, IBCLC Marcia Lutostanski BSN, IBCLC has been a La Leche League Leader for 18 years and is a member of the La Leche League International Board or Directors. Her international perspective comes from having lived in Malaysia, Brazil and Japan. She has worked as a pediatric and public health nurse.
	Jeanne Byler Mitchell, RN, MSN, IBCLC Jeanne Mitchell represents hospital-based lactation consultants for IBLCE. She began helping breastfeeding mothers and babies in 1981 as an accredited La Leche League Leader. After becoming an IBCLC in 1989, Jeanne spearheaded the WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program in Austin Texas. She earned her MSN from University of Texas School of Nursing in 1994 before opening Mom’s Place: WIC Breastfeeding Clinic in Austin. Jeanne has designed training programs for nutritionists and nurses, and has changed policy to reflect best breastfeeding practices in the hospital. Jeanne currently provides lactation consultant services in a hospital that delivers 4,000 babies each year.
	Wendelmoet Mulder-Baalbergen RN IBCLC Wendelmoet Mulder is a public health nurse, specialized in infant and young child care. After being a La Leche League leader for years, she was among the very first group of lactation consultants in the Netherlands. For 5 years she has been chair of the foundation responsible for the training of lactation consultants. She developed breastfeeding training materials for health professionals and for more than 8 years she has been teaching them about breastfeeding and related issues as the WHO code. She was involved in programs about infant feeding in emergency situations. In order to keep her practical skills as a nurse and lactation consultant she returned to her primary job as public health nurse a couple of years ago.
	Paula J. Oliveira, RN, BSN, IBCLC Paula Oliveira is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has an extensive background in maternal child health nursing including prenatal clinic, labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care and lactation services in hospital and in private practice. She has experience as the WIC State Breastfeeding Coordinator and developed and implemented the peer counselor training program and remains as a consultant for the State of New Hampshire WIC Program. She was the spearhead for the passage of the breastfeeding law in New Hampshire. She is the Treasurer of the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Task Force and currently is working as the Nurse in Charge of Lactation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
	Julie K. Wood, MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAFP Julie Wood is beginning her first term on the IBLCE Board as a delegate of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) where she serves as Secretary and on the ABM Board Directors. She is a Family Physician and IBCLC. Dr. Wood is an Associate Director of the Research Family Medicine Residency Program in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, where she is actively involved in teaching residents and medical students the role of breastfeeding as an important part in the continuum of child and women’s health. Dr. Wood is a member of the AAFP Breastfeeding Advisory Council and the AAFP Commission of the Health of the Public and a co-author of the AAFP policy and position paper on breastfeeding. She represents AAFP to La Leche League, the AAP Section on Breastfeeding, and the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She is also a La Leche League Medical Associate and chairs the LLL Physician Seminar Planning Committee. Dr. Wood particularly enjoys public speaking about breastfeeding to both healthcare professionals and the public.