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Full Schedule

The International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) is pleased to announce our 2023 Annual Conference Educational Program, inclusive of in-person and virtual content. Browse the sessions below so you might plan the best educational path for you during the ILCA 2023 Annual Conference.

Agenda and sessions are subject to change.

The International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) adheres to all accreditation requirements regarding conflicts of interests (COI) in education. All presenters have submitted their disclosures. For more information, browse our Presenter Disclosures page and/or learn how to earn continuing education credits.

Full Schedule

  • Sunday, August 13, 2023
  • 8:30 AM PDT
    Offsite Tour Departure: The Birthplace at Henderson Hospital
  • 11:00 AM – 6:30 PM PDT
    Registration Desk Open (sponsored by My Brest Friend)
  • 12:30 PM – 3:00 PM PDT
    Research Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts of Lactation Research
  • 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
    Coffee Break
  • 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM PDT
    Opening Remarks
  • 3:45 PM – 5:00 PM PDT
    The Future of Lactation Consulting Globally
  • 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Opening Reception in Exhibit Hall
  • Monday, August 14, 2023
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM PDT
    Registration Desk Open (sponsored by My Brest Friend)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM PDT
    Breakfast in Exhibit Hall
  • 9:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT
    Investing in Transformative Care Policy Packages: Parental Leave that Supports a Healthy and More Equal World
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM PDT
    Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
    The Human Milk Microbiome: Using Space Science Technology to Better Understand the Association of Milk Microbiota with Breastfeeding Practices and Infant Growth at Different Stages of Lactation
  • 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM PDT
    Lunch in Exhibit Hall
  • 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM PDT
    Building policy coalitions: a case study of reframing breastfeeding around ‘first food security’ in Australia
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM PDT
    Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    Breastfeeding infants and children with malignancy
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    It’s not all about the ovaries: Supporting Lactation with PCOS
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    Legal, Ethical, or Moral: What Matters Most for Lactation Clinicians?
    Does Patient-centered Care Ever Put the Caregiver at Risk?
  • 3:15 PM – 4:45 PM PDT
    You Should Write that Up!: Contributing Clinical and Advocacy Ideas to the Journal of Human Lactation
  • 4:44 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Poster Q&A Reception
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Comparison of breastfeeding practices among mothers with term and preterm births
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Difference between labeled and analyzed nutrient and energy content in banked Human milk
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Electronic Monitoring Of Mom’s Schedule (eMOMS): A feasibility randomized controlled trial to improve postpartum weight and lactation among a population with elevated body mass index in a Great Plains rural state
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Expectant Fathers in Malaysia - Knowledge and Attitude Towards Breastfeeding
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Factors Contributing to Diversity in a Pathway 2 IBCLC Training Program
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Improving Relactation Rates for Mothers with Infants in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    In-home vs. Outpatient Lactation Care: A Comparison of Breastfeeding/ Chestfeeding Self-Efficacy, Experiences, and Outcomes
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Intervention to increase breastfeeding rates of mothers diagnosed with Covid19
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Is Telelactation Benefitting Birthing People of Color? Experiences Using Virtual Breastfeeding Support
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Maternal Satisfaction with Breastfeeding using a Wearable versus Traditional Breast Pump
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Spanish Translation and Validation of the Prenatal Rating of Efficacy in Preparation to Breastfeed (PREP to BF) Scale and Convergence with the English Version
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    Sustaining the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative requires all hands on deck: Findings from a two-country case study in Malawi and the Kyrgyz Republic
  • 4:45 PM – 6:15 PM PDT
    The financial feasibility for providing expanded access to donor milk for newborns in the hospital: An integrative review.
  • Tuesday, August 15, 2023
  • 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM PDT
    Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM – 3:15 PM PDT
    Registration Desk Open (sponsored by My Brest Friend)
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    Adoptive Breastfeeding: Journey from personal experience to professional expertise
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    Low milk production: Unseen and understudied mechanisms
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    Poster Oral Presentations
  • 8:30 AM – 10:00 AM PDT
    Supporting Breastfeeding Families During a Disaster
  • 10:00 AM – 10:15 AM PDT
    Coffee Break
  • 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
    Engaging Health Insurers to Build Equity-driven Support for Breast/Chestfeeding in Hawai'i
  • 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
    Instagram and the IBCLC: Ethics, Privacy, Sharenting and Maternal Mental Health
  • 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
    Lactation Assessment Care Tool (LACT): Review of a New Instrument to Triage Lactation Care and Breastfeeding Support
  • 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM PDT
    Supporting the Neurodivergent Family: A Full Team Approach
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM PDT
    Lunch and Awards Ceremony
  • 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM PDT
    Human Milk Feeding and Justice: First Do No Harm
  • 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PDT
    Closing Remarks
  • Cancelled
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    Comparative Assessment of Pulse Light Treatment and Holder Pasteurization on Nutritional, Physicochemical, Antioxidant and Microbiological Profile of Human Milk
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    Destete materno en niños/as mayores de 1 año y competencias parentales: presentación y reflexión de resultados de tesis de maestría
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    Effect of "Teté Dance" on the Duration of the Lactation Session in Irritable Infants, Perú - 2023.
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    Examining facilitators and barriers of the implementation of Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative and Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding in Australia and Indonesia: using Non Adoption, Abandonment, Scale up, Spread and Sustainability (NASSS) framework
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    Mastitis between clinical and pathological diagnosis
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    New and innovative pathways to train a diverse future lactation workforce
  • Recorded Session
    13 August - 17 November
    When release isn't enough. Persistent problems post tongue tie release: perspectives from a release provider IBCLC