Program
- Day 1 - March 10
- Day 2 - March 11
- Day 3 - March 12
- Posters
HMI'26 Program Day 2 - Main Symposium
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
8:00 AM
Check-in opens
Light breakfast will be served
Poster mounting in breakout rooms
9:00 AM
Welcome Remarks
Mitra Hooshmand, PhD
Executive Director, Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
Lars Bode, PhD
Founding Director, Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
9:30 AM
First morning sessions begins
Opening Session: Immunology of Human Milk
Location:
Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium
Moderator:
Lars Bode, PhD
Director, Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
9:30 AM
Immune control of maternal physiology
Yasmine Belkaid, PhD
President, Institut Pasteur
France
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
to be selected
this could be YOU...
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10:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
Second morning session begins
Focus Session: Clinical Implications of Human Milk Research
Location:
Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium
Moderator:
Jae Kim, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Director, Perinatal Institute – Division of Neonatology
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
11:00 AM
Maternal milk for an overlooked population: moderate and late preterm infants
Aloka L. Patel, MD
Glore Family Professor of Neonatology
Division Head of Neonatology
Research Director for Neonatology
Rush University Children’s Hospital, Chicago
11:30 AM
Non-nutritional uses of human milk: Milk as therapy
Rebecca Hoban, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington
Director of Breastfeeding Medicine
Director of Clinical Guideline Development
Division of Neonatology, Seattle Children’s Hospital
12:00 PM
12:15 PM
Patient Family Perspective
to be selected
tbn
tbd
12:30 PM
Group Photo, Lunch, and Meet-Up Hub
2:00 PM
Afternoon sessions begin
Focus Session: The Future of Donor Human Milk
Location:
Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium
Moderator:
Alison Wolf, CPNP-PC, IBCLC
UC Health Milk Bank
Human Milk Institute
UC San Diego
2:00 PM
Winds of Change for European Milk Banks: European Regulation on SoHO and Beyond
Sertac Arslanoglu, MD
President, European Milk Bank Association (EMBA)
Administrative Director of the Division of Neonatology & Department of Pediatrics İstanbul Medeniyet University, School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey
Scientific Coordinator and Member of the Board of Directors, Italian Association of Human Milk Banks (AIBLUD), Milan, Italy
2:30 PM
2:45 PM
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
to be selected
this could be YOU...
submit an abstract!
Focus Session: Breastfeeding Interventions - From Academia to the "Real World"
Location:
Samuel H. Scripps Auditorium
Moderator:
tbn
3:00 PM
Learnings from building a breastfeeding intervention database – new ways to bridge the gap from academic research to operating at scale in the real world
Katharina Lichtner, PhD
Managing Director
Family Larsson-Rosenquist Foundation
Switzerland
3:30 PM
3:45 PM
Short talk selected from submitted abstracts
to be selected
this could be YOU...
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4:00 PM
Poster Session I
Sunset Cocktail Reception
5:30 PM
End of Day 2
