22nd ISRHML Agenda

Friday, December 8, 2024

3:00pm *New* Pre-Conference Workshop "Human Milk Composition Data in Federal Nutrition Policy: Uses,
Limitations, and Future Directions"
National health and nutrition monitoring is a vital federal effort and often serves as the foundation for many
nutrition and health policies. Despite its importance, understanding child exposures through human milk
in population studies is hindered by a lack of current and representative data on human milk composition
and intake volumes. High-quality, comprehensive, and publicly available composition and essential metadata
could empower researchers and public health officials to assess infant and maternal nutritional needs
accurately, shaping public health policies, food and nutrition programs, and clinical practice guidelines
with the needed precision.

This complimentary workshop will adopt a co-learning, horizontal information-sharing approach. Participants
will engage with federal leaders in human milk composition, nutrition, and public health research and policy
to exchange ideas and discuss future visions.

Monday, December 9, 2024

8:00am Optional Workshop 1: Improving Human Milk and Breastfeeding Outcomes for Vulnerable Infants at
Discharge and Beyond, Dr. Diane Spatz
Overview: Most of the global attention to improve breastfeeding rates only focuses on the healthy term dyad. Mothers who have infants requiring intensive care face unique challenges This session will focus on 10 steps to improve human milk and breastfeeding with the associated research and outcomes associated.

10:00 Break

12:00pm Lunch (on your own)

1:00pm Optional Workshop 2: Human Milk and Lactation Research – Back to the Basics
Dr. Mark McGuire, Dr. Shelley McGuire, Dr. Paula Meier, Dr. Donna Geddes
Overview – Understanding mammary biology as a framework for developing appropriate sampling, laboratory methods, and analyses to study human milk and lactation.

2:30 Break

4:30 Workshop Adjourn

5:00 Welcome Reception

7:00 Reception Concludes

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

8:00am Welcome Address

8:30 Macy-Gyorgy Award Announcement and Recipient Lecture

10:00 Break - Discussions, Networking, Visit with Exhibitors

10:30 Session 1: New Discoveries in Immunologic Functions of Breast Milk,
Dr. Kirsi Järvinen-Seppo, Dr. Timothy Hand, Dr. Kathryn Knoop

12:00pm Lunch provided

1:00 Session 2: The Impact of Maternal Condition on Lactation, 
Dr. Laurie Nommsen-Rivers, Dr. Donna Geddes, Dr. Rebekah Hoban

2:45 Break - Discussions, Networking, Visit with Exhibitors 

3:00 Session 3: Findings from the International Milk Composition Consortium (IMiC): A Multidisciplinary
Approach to Studying Human Milk as a Biological System and Understanding its Relationship
with Infant Growth, Dr. Meghan Azad, IMiC Collaborators and Trainees

5:30 Session Concludes

5:45 Poster Symposium 1 (Non-CME)

Wednesday, December 11, 2024

8:00am Session 4: Human Milk as a Biological System
Dr. Shelley McGuire, Dr. Andrew Bremer, Dr. Ellen Demerath, Dr. Meghan Azad, Dr. Ardythe Morrow, Dr. Bridget Young
10:00 Break - Discussions, Networking, Visit with Exhibitors

10:30 Session 5: Public Health Interventions and Economics of Breastfeeding Around the World,
Dr. Tricia Johnson, Rafael Pérez-Escamilla

12:00pm Lunch/TIG Professional Development Panel

1:30 Session 6: Genomics, Epigenetics and Transcriptomics of Human Milk,
Dr. Brittany Goods

3:00 Break - Discussions, Networking, Visit with Exhibitors

3:30 Session 7: Breastfeeding and Chronic Disease Prevention,
Dr. Berthold Koletzko and Others

5:00 Annual General Membership Meeting

6:00 Poster Session 2 (Non-CME)

Thursday, December 12, 2024

8:00am Session 8: The Mothers, Infants and Lactation Quality (MILQ) Study
Dr. Lindsay Allen, MILQ Collaborators and Trainees

10:30 Break - Discussions, Networking, Visit with Exhibitors

10:45 Session 9: Milk Bioactives, Microbiomes, and Maternal/Infant Health,                      
Dr. Laxmi Yeruva, Dr. Sharon Donovan, Dr. David Dallas

12:30pm Lunch/TIG Meet the Experts

1:30 Afternoon free to explore Charleston

6:00 ISRHML Gala Event (Dinner, Awards, Networking)

Friday, December 13, 2024

8:30am Session 10: Impact of Climate and Environment on Lactation
Dr. Dan Sellen

9:30 TEP Bridge Trainee Award

10:00 Break - Discussions, Networking, Visit with Exhibitors

10:30 Session 11: Innovations in Breastfeeding Support
Dr. Jill Radtke Dermici and Dr. Azza H. Ahmed

11:30 Session 12: Hot Topics & Breaking Research

12:30pm Wrap-up Conference with Box Lunch, Dr. Carol Wagner

12:45 Adjourn

1:00 Optional Workshop 3: Communicating Lactation Science: Reflexive Engagement & Finding a
Path Forward, The public communication of lactation science faces a fraught media landscape and social
and political complexities. Workshop participants will have a chance to share the challenges they encounter
in their science communication efforts and engage reflexively in their own SciComm practice. Participants
will leave with an improved clarity on their own SciComm goals, tools for engaging empathetically with the
public, and a personal plan for next steps— both individual and collective.

4:30 Workshop concludes