The Faculty of Paediatrics is joining together with the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Faculty of Public Health for the first of a new webinar series which will be on the topic of Breastfeeding.
This virtual event is aimed at health care professionals working in a wide variety of areas in medicine including Primary Care, Public Health, Obstetrics and Gynaecology and Paediatrics/Neonatology.
This event is a benefit of your Membership and Fellowship and is FREE for RCPI Trainees, Members and Fellows who are in good standing. There is a €50.00 fee for all other attendees.
Dr Meredith Kinoshita
Dr Meredith Kinoshita is a paediatric SpR, currently in a research role in Neonatology at the Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital pursuing an MD. Her research focuses on quantifying breastmilk volume during breastfeeds and interventions to support establishment and continuation of breastfeeding in preterm infants. She is lead author on a paper from the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland highlighting that healthcare professionals should have the appropriate education and skillset to support breastfeeding and affirms RCPI’s commitment to the promotion of breastfeeding.
Ms Sue Jameson
Sue Jameson has worked in the field of Education for Parenthood, and Breastfeeding Education & Support for over thirty two years. Having studied Psychology (amongst other things!) in Trinity College Dublin this sparked a life long interest in recognising what is normal in infant behaviour, and how this can be influenced by patterns of care giving. How this relates and modulates breastfeeding behaviours in dyads has been her passion throughout. How Health Care Professionals communicate with patients and clients is the area in which she currently works, delivering Communication modules in both UCD and TCD on request.
Sue is a freelancer speaker and educator in many subject areas and has guest lectured in TCD & UCD schools of Nursing & Midwifery, Dundalk IT, Dun Laoghaire College of FE, and the National College of Ireland – Early Childhood Education Dept. The 18hr/20hr UNICEF training programme for HCPs, was adapted by Sue to suit the needs of Irish PHNs and co-ordinated skills update courses for PHNs and other Health Care Professionals working in the community across the greater Dublin area, in partnership with Dr Elizabeth McCarthy Quinn. She has presented at International conferences, Toronto, Vilnius - Lithuania, Philadelphia and on-line for iLactation. She presents sessions for ALCI and Cuidiu at their annual conferences and study days. Sue has been involved with the HSE for many years sitting on Panels, Committees, Focus Groups, and has collaborated on many assorted publications such as the HSE suite of breastfeeding literature, the National Breastfeeding Policies of 1994, 2003 and 2005, plus the National Infant Feeding Strategy 2011.
Sue also works as an IBCLC in Private Practice. She first certified in 1989 and has been comtinuously certified since then, reaching 30 years in practice in 2019. She is Past -President of the Association of Lactation Consultants in Ireland, and a Senior Breastfeeding Tutor with Cuidiu, with responsibility for devising and co-ordinating training of Breastfeeding Counsellors across Ireland since 1989 – in excess of 500 to date. She was recognised with a special award from Friends of Breastfeeding for a lifetime of service to breastfeeding families in 2019. Her speaking style is engaging and as such she is in huge demand from many quarters.
Dr Natalie Shenker
Dr Natalie Shenker is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at Imperial College London examining the public health impacts of human milk banking and the complexity of human milk composition. She is a doctor with a PhD in epigenetic risk biomarkers, and more recently the cofounder of the Human Milk Foundation, a charity that supports research, education and access to donor milk. At the centre of this work, the Hearts Milk Bank (established 2017) is now the largest non-profit milk bank in the UK, providing screened donor milk to babies whose own mothers need time to establish breastfeeding, or where breastfeeding is impossible, at home or in hospital.
Dr Sarah Brennan
Dr Sarah Brennan works as a lecturer in school of medicine, NUI Galway and as a GP with a special interest in women's health. She is completing her IBCLC with a view to becoming a Breastfeeding Medicine Specialist. She has a deep interest in the promotion, support, and protection of Breastfeeding & how this necessitates full legislation and enactment of the Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes from a Governmental level. She has research interests in infant feeding implicit bias, mindfulness in pregnancy, the health economics of Breastfeeding and breastfeeding education for medical students and specialist trainee physicians. She is a member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, GP Infant Feeding Network Ireland, Donegal Breastfeeding Forum and Baby Feeding Law Group Ireland.
First, you must book your place at the webinar on this web page. On the day, you must sign into our virtual learning environment RCPI Brightspace.
On the day of the event, the steps are:
Note, the webinar will only become available to watch at 5.30pm on the day, but we recommend logging in ten minutes ahead of time.
To join this webinar on Zoom you will need a computer (Windows or Apple) or mobile device with internet access and speakers.
If you're joining the webinar on a computer you can use the Zoom desktop website. You do not need to download the Zoom app - if you see a pop up message about the app, you can dismiss this.
The Zoom website functions best on Google Chrome.
When you click on the link for "Join the Live Webinar" you will see a message asking you to open Zoom. Click on “Open Zoom”.
You will then be asked for your name and email address. Once you’ve entered these details, click on “Join Webinar”.
If you're watching the webinar on a mobile device you will need to download the Zoom app. To save time on the day, we recommend downloading the app in advance:
Click here for the iOS Zoom app
Click here for the Android Zoom app
When you open the Zoom app click on “Join a Meeting”. You will need to enter the meeting ID number. The ID number for this week's event will be sent to you via email beforehand.
You can find additional help with joining Zoom webinars here.
If you have any questions for our panel please email them to conferences@rcpi.ie and we will endeavour to have these answered as part of the event. Alternatively, you can submit questions via Twitter @RCPI_news.
We are now using Zoom to broadcast our live webinars. When you open Zoom to watch the live webinar you will be able to submit questions to the panel during the event.
To submit questions to the panel:
It may not be possible to answer all questions we receive.
There are limited places available for the live webinar. If you are unable to book a place, you will be able to watch videos of all of the talks on Panopto, our video sharing platform.
