Jack Newman
Dr. Jack Newman graduated from the University of Toronto medical school in 1970, interning at the Vancouver General Hospital. He did his training in pædiatrics in Quebec City and then at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 1977-1981 to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada in 1981 as well as Board Certified by the AAP in 1981. He has worked as a physician in Central America, New Zealand and South Africa. He founded the first hospital based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. He has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in Gabon, the Ivory Coast and Canada.
Dr. Newman was a staff paediatrician at the Hospital for Sick Children emergency department from 1983 to 1992, and was, for a period of time, the acting chief of the emergency services. However, once the breastfeeding clinic started functioning, it took more and more of his time and he eventually worked full time helping mothers and babies succeed with breastfeeding. He now works at the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic and Institute based at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto.
Dr. Newman has several publications on breastfeeding, and in 2000 published, along with Teresa Pitman, a help guide for professionals and mothers on breastfeeding, called, Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding, as it's known in Canada (revised editions, January 2003 and January 2005), and The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers, as it's known in the US (revised edition, November 2006). In 2006, Dr. Newman, along with Teresa Pitman, published The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success (Hale Publishing). In addition, Dr. Jack Newman’s Guide to Breastfeeding and the DVD, Dr. Jack Newman’s Visual Guide to Breastfeeding have now been translated into French as “L’allaitement : comprendre et réussir” (same title for both the book and the DVD). The book is now being translated into Spanish.
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Edith Kernerman
In 2001, after many years of doing volunteer work with breastfeeding mothers, Edith Kernerman began helping mothers on a more full-time basis. In 2002, Kernerman became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and a Lactation Educator in Toronto, Canada. In 2005, Kernerman founded the International Meeting of the Minds, a forum where experts can discuss conflicting and contradictory views in lactation medicine. Kernerman continues this work toward minimizing contradictory and conflicting information in the lactation world by encouraging discourse among experts in particular areas of lactation. In 2006, she co-founded, and is now the co-director of, the Newman Breastfeeding Clinic & Institute.
In 2005, Kernerman and Jack Newman created an instructional DVD for healthcare professionals and for breastfeeding mothers, Dr. Jack Newman’s Visual Guide to Breastfeeding. The DVD is available in French and English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and Russian. With Eileen Park, Kernerman helped redesign and update Newman’s Immediate Post Partum Breastfeeding Decision Tree. Together, Kernerman and Newman travel and teach a variety of lactation management courses, including the WHO 20-hour Lactation Management Course. Currently, Kernerman is researching the Importance of Skin to Skin Care: Breastfeeding and Empowerment in the First Hours of Life for her book, “How to Breastfeed the Baby Who Does Not Yet Latch”. Kernerman is the author of the Gameplan for Protecting and Supporting Breastfeeding in the First 24 hours of life and Beyond: A Guide for Healthcare Professionals, and is the co-creator of the new lactation tool: L-Eat: the Elite way to Latch: Empower, Attach, Transfer. The GamePlan and L-Eat are each available in 5 languages.
A member of the Canadian Lactation Consultants Association (CLCA) and the International Lactation Consultants Association, Kernerman has just created the Ontario Lactation Consultants Association, and is she is currently a member of the Ontario Breastfeeding Committee, and a member of, and a liaison (for the CLCA) to the Breastfeeding Committee for Canada.
Kernerman breastfed her two daughters.
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