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HMI'25 Symposium Organizing Committee

The Symposium Organizing Committee will strategize and plan the third HMI symposium by providing input on programming, session topics, potential speakers, and future directions. Importantly, the Committee will anticipate the long-term direction of the field, strategically developing a symposium program that can be revisited annually to identify barriers and highlight progress, collectively advancing the field over the years.

  • Lars Bode, PhD

    Lars Bode, PhD

    Committee Chair

    Director, Human Milk Institute (HMI)
    Director, Mother-Milk-Infant Center of Research Excellence (MOMI CORE)
    University of California San Diego
  • Mitra Hooshmand, PhD

    Mitra Hooshmand, PhD

    Committee Co-Chair

    Executive Director, Human Milk Institute (HMI)
    University of California San Diego
  • Mandy Brown Belfort, MD, MPH

    Mandy Brown Belfort, MD, MPH

    Associate Chief of Research, Department of Pediatrics
    Brigham & Women’s Hospital

    Associate Professor of Pediatrics
    Harvard Medical School
  • Chardá Bell, IBCLC

    Chardá Bell, IBCLC

    Executive Director
    San Diego Breastfeeding Center Foundation
  • Andrew Bremer , MD, PhD

    Andrew Bremer , MD, PhD

    Director, Office of Nutrition Research
    National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Carrie Byington, MD

    Carrie Byington, MD

    Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
    University of California San Diego
    University of California San Francisco
  • Stephen Kennedy, MD

    Stephen Kennedy, MD

    Professor Emeritus
    Oxford University

    Co-Lead, INTERGROWTH-21st
  • Martin Kullen, PhD

    Martin Kullen, PhD

    Vice President, Health Science & Innovation
    Novonesis
  • Nigel Rollins, MD

    Nigel Rollins, MD

    Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing
    World Health Organization