The IBLCE Board
The IBLCE Board of Directors serve in an honorary capacity. The Board's composition is balanced to reflect geographical and professional diversity. At least half of the Directors are nominated by delegating organisations and the others are elected to fill designated positions. The Board meets twice a year, but Board and Committee work continues between meetings.
Executive Committee
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Board Chair Elizabeth Stehel MD, FAAP. IBCLC Dr Stehel is a general pediatrician who works exclusively in the newborn nursery at Parkland Memorial Hospital, one of the largest single site birthing hospitals in the United Sates with ~ 15,000 deliveries annually. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where she attended medical school. She also completed her Pediatrics Residency in Dallas at Children’s Medical Center. |
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Vice Chair/Chair Elect Rebecca Mannel, BS, IBCLC Ms Mannel is Manager of the Lactation Center at Oklahoma University Medical Center in Oklahoma City. She holds the position of Clinical Instructor in both the Pediatric and OB/Gyn Departments of the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. She served as president of the International Lactation Consultant Association from 2006-2008. Ms. Mannel is a member of the La Leche League International and serves on the Executive Board of the Pan American Medical Mission Foundation. In addition she has published numerous articles in The Journal of Human Lactation and other peer reviewed publications. |
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Treasurer Angela Love-Zaranka, BA, IBCLC, RLC Angela has been a La Leche Leader since 1990 and a Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 1997. She has served on several non-profit boards as a member of the finance committee and/or treasurer. She received her undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Washington DC and her graduate work, also at Trinity, is towards a masters of science in administration, specializing in non-profit management. She is an IBCLC in private practice and is the lead Lactation Consultant at DeWitt Army Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. |
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Secretary Jeanne Byler Mitchell, RN, MSN, IBCLC Jeanne Mitchell represents hospital-based lactation consultants for IBLCE. She began helping breastfeeding mothers and babies in 1981 as an accredited La Leche League Leader. After becoming an IBCLC in 1989, Jeanne spearheaded the WIC Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Program in Austin Texas. She earned her MSN from University of Texas School of Nursing in 1994 before opening Mom’s Place: WIC Breastfeeding Clinic in Austin. Jeanne has designed training programs for nutritionists and nurses, and has changed policy to reflect best breastfeeding practices in the hospital. Jeanne currently provides lactation consultant services in a hospital that delivers 4,000 babies each year. |
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Governance Committee Chair Rachelle Lessen MS, RD, IBCLC, LDN Rachelle is a registered dietitian and IBCLC and has a Masters of Science degree in health education. She works at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia where she sees families with infants in the cardiac intensive care unit and the pediatric units. She also conducts prenatal consults for families in the fetal heart program. Rachelle has an outpatient lactation center for mothers who are experiencing breastfeeding difficulties and specializes in counseling mothers of infants with food allergies. Rachelle serves as the ILCA liaison to the UN Standing Committee on Nutrition and is a board member and past-president of the Breastfeeding Resource Center, a non-profit community center. Rachelle is the co-author of the 2009 ADA Position Statement on Breastfeeding and has written chapters or articles for various publication on issues related to breastfeeding and nutrition |
Board Members
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Ellen McIntyre, OAM, PhD, IBCLC Ellen McIntyre is an associate professor and manager with the Primary Health Care Research & Information Service (PHC RIS) at Flinders University in South Australia where she conducts applied research to enhance the sharing of knowledge and information among researchers, policy makers and practitioners. She is also a researcher in breastfeeding. Ellen has coordinated breastfeeding education programs for health professionals from 1989 until 2006 and has been an Australian Breastfeeding Association Counselor since 1985. In 2005, Ellen received an OAM (Medal of the Order of Australia) for service to the community as a lactation consultant and counselor, and through the development and delivery of information and education courses on breastfeeding. |
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Aimee Eden, MA Aimee R. Eden is a Ph.D. candidate in applied anthropology at the University of South Florida, where she is also working on her M.P.H. in maternal and child health. She holds a master's degree in international development from Ohio University, and is a returned Peace Corps volunteer (Kazakhstan). She has conducted research domestically and internationally on topics including reproductive and maternal-child health, breastfeeding, perceptions of race and ethnicity among health researchers, transnational migration of health workers, legal approaches to cases of abused and neglected children in Florida, and the impact of accelerated high school academic programs on underrepresented groups in Florida.
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Wendelmoet Mulder-Baalbergen RN IBCLC Wendelmoet Mulder is a public health nurse, specialized in infant and young child care. After being a La Leche League leader for years, she was among the very first group of lactation consultants in the Netherlands. For 5 years she has been chair of the foundation responsible for the training of lactation consultants. She developed breastfeeding training materials for health professionals and for more than 8 years she has been teaching them about breastfeeding and related issues as the WHO code. She was involved in programs about infant feeding in emergency situations. In order to keep her practical skills as a nurse and lactation consultant she returned to her primary job as public health nurse a couple of years ago. |
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Paula J. Oliveira, RN, BSN, IBCLC Paula Oliveira is a registered nurse and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant. She has an extensive background in maternal child health nursing including prenatal clinic, labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care and lactation services in hospital and in private practice. She has experience as the WIC State Breastfeeding Coordinator and developed and implemented the peer counselor training program and remains as a consultant for the State of New Hampshire WIC Program. She was the spearhead for the passage of the breastfeeding law in New Hampshire. She is the Treasurer of the New Hampshire Breastfeeding Task Force and currently is working as the Nurse in Charge of Lactation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. |
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Tomoko Seo, MD, IBCLC, FABM Tomoko Seo is a pediatrician, who is working in a private maternity hospital and a pediatric clinic in Japan. She certified as IBCLC in 1999 and served as the president of Japanese Association of Lactation Consultants (JALC) from 2001 to 2003. She is a member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. She has translated various documents and books on breastfeeding into Japanese. She has served as Conference Chair of the annual breastfeeding seminar for physicians sponsored by JALC since 2005. She works as a lecturer at breastfeeding conferences as well as a clinician caring for mothers and babies. |
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Marcia Lutostanski, BSN, IBCLC Marcia Lutostanski BSN, IBCLC has been a La Leche League Leader for 18 years and is a member of the La Leche League International Board or Directors. Her international perspective comes from having lived in Malaysia, Brazil and Japan. She has worked as a pediatric and public health nurse. |
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Julie K. Wood, MD, IBCLC, FABM, FAAFP Julie Wood is beginning her first term on the IBLCE Board as a delegate of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) where she serves as Secretary and on the ABM Board Directors. She is a Family Physician and IBCLC. Dr. Wood is an Associate Director of the Research Family Medicine Residency Program in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, where she is actively involved in teaching residents and medical students the role of breastfeeding as an important part in the continuum of child and women’s health. Dr. Wood is a member of the AAFP Breastfeeding Advisory Council and the AAFP Commission of the Health of the Public and a co-author of the AAFP policy and position paper on breastfeeding. She represents AAFP to La Leche League, the AAP Section on Breastfeeding, and the United States Breastfeeding Committee. She is also a La Leche League Medical Associate and chairs the LLL Physician Seminar Planning Committee. Dr. Wood particularly enjoys public speaking about breastfeeding to both healthcare professionals and the public. |
- Exam Eligibility Criteria
- Clinical Competencies
- Scope of Practice
- Code of Professional Conduct
- Exam Material for Initial Applicants
- Recertification Application Packs for IBCLCs
- CERP Application Forms for Education Providers
- MILCC Application Forms
- What's New at IBLCE?
- IBCLC Lactation Care Award
