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Speaker Biographical Info

Misty Virmani, MD, FAAP, is a board certified pediatrician at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH) and the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). Before returning to train as a neonatologist at ACH and UAMS, she worked for seven years as a general pediatrician. She specializes in lactation medicine and breastfeeding and is leading the UAMS Baby Friendly Hospital initiative.

Dr. Elizabeth Kim, MD, attended Lyon College in Batesville, AR and received her undergraduate degree in Biology with a minor in Chemistry in 1999.  Following two years of basic science research in multiple myeloma at our own Arkansas Cancer Research Center, she attended medical school at UAMS and graduated in 2005.  She received her pediatric training at Arkansas Children’s Hospital and continued her fellowship training in Neonatology at UAMS/ACH, graduating in 2011.  She is now in her third year on faculty in the Division of Neonatology.  Her fellowship research focused on the use of telemedicine to improve delivery patterns across Arkansas of very low birth weight infants and she continues to be interested in the use of TM to improve clinical care of our states smallest patients.  

Caroline Duos, M.D.

Ashley Wilcox, M.D.

  
Knowledge Gap: 

This module will teach the learner breastfeeding benefits, procedures, and physiology.

Topics:

1. Breastfeeding History
2. Cue-Based Feeding
3. Expressed Breast Milk
4. Contraindications to Breastfeeding
5. Composition of Breast Milk
6. Physiology of Lactation