Bay Area Lactation Associates (BALA)

  • About BALA
  • Find a Lactation Consultant
  • Join/Renew
  • Resources
  • Meet the Board
  • Past Meetings
  • About BALA
  • Find a Lactation Consultant
  • Join/Renew
  • Resources
  • Meet the Board
  • Past Meetings

Past Meetings

DATE: May 10, 2023​
SPEAKER: Rachel Yang, MD, IBCLC 
​TOPIC: New Mastitis Protocol

DATE: January 18, 2023
SPEAKER: Melissa Chasan, BSN, RN, Nurse Manager at Sutter Health - Women & Infants
TOPIC: Antenatal milk expression and donor milk in the hospital setting

DATE: Nov 10, 2022
SPEAKER: Allison Tolman
Topic: Breast Pumps 

DATE: May 20, 2022
SPEAKER: Gretchen Becker Crabb
Topic: Breastfeeding through a co-regulation and sensory processing lens. 

DATE: September 20, 2021
SPEAKER: Lucia Lainez, SLP
Topic: Implicit Bias in BIPOC Prenatal and Postnatal Communities. 

DATE: January 6, 2022
SPEAKER: Dr. Ariel Provasoli, DC

DATE: May 14th, 2021
Topic: Transition from hospital support to community

DATE: March 10, 2021
SPEAKER: Annual Meeting
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​DATE: January 7th, 2021
SPEAKER: NANCY MOHRBACHER, IBCLC, FILCA and Author of "BREASTFEEDING ANSWERS, A guide for helping families"

DATE: November 9, 2020
SPEAKER: Dr. Agi Ban, DC

DATE: September 22 , 2020
SPEAKER: Andrea Byers

DATE: January 16, 2020
TOPIC: Ruth Konoff discusses Pediatric Occupational Therapy and its link to successful breastfeeding

DATE: September 27, 2019
TOPIC: Dr. Will & Postpartum Moods

Date: March 21, 2019
Annual Meeting: Board Election, networking, lunch!
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Jan. 16, 2019
Speaker: Mary Marine IBCLC
Topic: Updates on current research on Kangaroo Care

November 8, 2018
Speaker:  Phyllis Klaus, MFT, LCSW
Topic: Traumatic birth and postpartum mood disorders 

Sept. 26, 2018
Topic: Breast Pumps

May 17, 2018
Case Studies Discussion​!

March 21, 2018
Annual Meeting and Lunch - Member awards, New Board vote. Lunch!

January 16, 2018
Speaker:  Randy Ligh, DDS discussing ankyloglossia
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Thursday, November 9
Case studies discussion

Thursday, September 14, 2017
Speaker: Ilani Kopiecki on CranioSacral Therapy

Thursday, May 11, 2017
Speaker: Shervin Yazdi DDS

Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Annual Meeting and Lunch

Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Speaker: Susan Lawrence, LLLL, IBCLC and RN

Thursday, November 10, 2016
Speaker:  Dr. Susan Lee Char 

Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Speaker: Fritzi Drosten, RN, IBCLC

Tuesday May 17, 2016
Speaker: Amy Gordon, MS, L.Ac 

Monday, March 14, 2016
Annual Meeting and Lunch

Friday January 15, 2016
Speaker: Dr. Jan Alden, DC, CST

November 17, 2015
Speaker: Ruth Konoff, OT, IBCLC



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