(All events on Zoom.)

May: Presenter at the May webinar of my professional association, Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ). My topic was historical, about Europe's experience of a much earlier pandemic for which even today, after centuries, there is no vaccine - but there is an effective treatment.

9 November. Presenter, with other speakers from round the world, at an online symposium in which my presentation set the context of mother-support groups for breastfeeding.

25 November. Presenter of a webinar for LCANZ on unusual syndromes and other disorders, some of them congenital.

March: two local events:

-As guest speaker at Springfield ABA Group, on 'Low supply: Am I running out of milk?', 1st March 2019.

- As keynote speaker at the ABA South Brisbane Region's workshop for counsellors, on the importance of providing support ('the right advice from the right person at the right time') for mothers who are breastfeeding, 30 March.

July: Speaker in a concurrent session at the AMIRCI conference at University of Sydney, 10-12 July.  [Note: AMIRCI has been renamed Maternal Scholars Australia (MSA).]

In 2018 I spoke at two conferences:

- the wholly online iLactation Conference in September-November. (My one-hour presentation was on improving counselling skills, including using the new techologies.)

- the LCANZ Conference in Adelaide in October. (I spoke twice in concurrent sessions on: on valuing women's milk, and also on marketing issues.)

- 10 September. ABA Regional Workshop, Ipswich/West Moreton. (My 1-hour presentation discussed correct use of words in an historical context.)

- 13-16 July. AMIRCI Conference at the City campus of the RMIT University in Melbourne. (I presented on correct use of words in relation to breastfeeding.)

- 7-8 October. Conference of Lactation Consultants of Australia and New Zealand (LCANZ), Melbourne. (I presented on preventing painful latch.)

- 6-8 March. Lactation Consultants of Australia & New Zealand (LCANZ). Brisbane.

- April-May. GOLD15 online breastfeeding conference, from 13 April to 1 June. 

'I listened to your excellent presentation "Latch problems arising from mothers' response to anticipated pain" this year at the Gold Conference and found the info very practical, and useful. Your extensive experience and passion in this field made your presentation a delight to listen to. I started to used some of your ideas/suggestions in my practice.'

Patricia, Public Health Nurse (with permission)