GOLD Speakers

Amrita Desai, MSc, LCCE, IBCLC

• Speaker Type: 2024 Main Presentations
• Country: India

Biography:

Practicing Board Certified Lactation Consultant since last 15 years. Special interests in Golden Hour Feeding, Kangaroo Care, Breast Feeding Multiples, Initiating, Maintaining and Establishing Milk supply in mothers of Preterm Babies, Breastfeeding in Surrogacy with induced Lactation, Breastfeeding in special situations such as Preterm, LBW, Surgical Cases, Syndromes, Cleft Palates etc. Faculty for Indian Academy of Pediatrics and National Neonatology Forum for many years now for breastfeeding and nutrition workshops Trained in Human Milk Banking under Dr. Ben Hartmann at PREM Bank, King Edward Memorial Hospital, Perth, WA instrumental for setting up the first Preterm Human Milk Bank 'Yashoda" at Sahyadri Specialty Hospital, Shastrinagar, Pune modelled on the lines of the PREM Bank at WA.