Emory University is pleased to offer a dynamic and engaging conference on breastfeeding in collaboration with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, hospitals across the region, and partners from community organizations. The conference is known for bringing in national speakers and local experts for a robust learning experience. The conference generally offers a mix of content reaching across clinical settings, from prenatal visits to the mother-baby bedside, the neonatal intensive care unit, and outpatient care. The conference welcomes members of the multidisciplinary perinatal and leadership teams, drawing a diverse audience of nurses, lactation consultants, physicians, advanced practice providers, dietitians, neonatal therapists, trainees, and more.
The conference has been held each spring, with few exceptions since its launch in the late 1980s. Please monitor this site for updates and information on current and future conferences.
2025 Conference
The 35th Annual Emory Conference on breastfeeding has concluded and will be available for on-demand viewing from April 30th - June 30th, 2025.
If you attended the meeting in person, on-demand access is included with conference registration. You will be emailed the link before on April 29th with instructions for logging into our website to view the videos. ****Note: you may only claim CE credit for each talk - either in-person or on-demand.
If you missed the in-person meeting, registration is available for the on-demand is now live!
To register, please visit EmoryBFConference.Eventbrite.com.
Agenda
Handouts
- Breastfeeding Family Friendly Community Initiative
- Breastfeeding with maternal mental health meds
- CDC’s Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies Toolkit
- Current Debate on MOM for Neonates With CMV Concerns
- Current Mastitis Management
- Freeze Dried Milk: Liquid Gold to Powdered Uncertainty
- Jenny Thomas All Tied Up Emory 2025
- Medications & Human Breastmilk; Obesity, Diabetes, and Heart Disease
- Revolutionizing NICU Lactation Care
- Social Drivers of Breastfeeding
- Supporting Exclusive Breastfeeding in the Newborn Nursery
- Supporting the Exclusive Pumping Parent
Continuing Education
Conference - April 15-16, 2025 Â (in-person & recorded):
- Children's Healthcare of Atlanta is accredited by the Medical Association of Georgia to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Children's designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.0 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. ***Please note that no CME will be granted for physicians for the enduring (on-demand) materials.*** Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- The application for this nursing continuing professional development activity (both live and enduring) has been submitted for 13 hours by Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, which is an approved provider with distinction of nursing continuing professional development by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
- The Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) is an approved provider for CPE Prior Approval Activity 180879. The credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic contact hours for 13 Continuing Professional Education Hours (CPEUs) for both the live and on-demand meeting.
- The International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners has approved this conference for 13 Continuing Education Recognition Points (CERPs) for both the live and on-demand meeting.