Paula K. Schreck MD, IBCLC, FABM attended the University of Michigan Medical School. She completed her Pediatric Residency at the University of California, San Diego.  She is the creator and medical director of the St. John Mother Nurture Network, a WK Kellogg Foundation-supported innovative and far-reaching breastfeeding initiative that spans her urban hospital and the surrounding community. She is also medical director and co-creator of The Lactation Consultant Program, a unique Pathway 2 academic lactation consultant training program.  She leads quality improvement and Baby-Friendly initiatives for many Ascension Michigan hospitals and also leads quality improvement collaboratives in Michigan, Louisiana, Wisconsin, and Kentucky.   She serves as the Chief of Clinical Strategy of Coffective, LLC and she is on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

Dr. Duff has served as Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine University of Florida in Gainesville since 1989. He completed his undergraduate studies in American Government at Harvard University and subsequently earned a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the University of Virginia and a Doctor of Medicine Degree from Georgetown University. He then pursued residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and fellowship training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas—San Antonio. His research interests center on viral and bacterial infections in pregnancy and student and resident education.

Dr. Ayesa Hilvano currently serves as the Obstetric Anesthesia Director at St Elizabeth Healthcare - Edgewood Hospital in Edgewood, KY and is a council member with the Women Health Institute at St Elizabeth Healthcare. Dr. Hilvano also serves as the Board Director at Seven Hills Anesthesia in St Elizabeth Division and Chairs the Compliance Committee at Seven Hills Anesthesia. Dr. Hilvano is a Diplomate in the American Board of Anesthesiology.

Dr. White practiced as an OB/GYN physician in Frankfort, Kentucky, for over twenty years. She retired from clinical medicine and first worked at the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) as the Director of the Division of Women’s Health from 2009-2010. She then joined the College of Public Health as a Clinical Professor at the University of Kentucky (UK) from 2011-2012 in the Department for Health Behavior. Dr. White returned to KDPH as Deputy Commissioner in 2014. She has served as the Principal Investigator for several grants that included Diabetes, Heart Disease and Stroke, Colon Cancer Screening, Medication for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD) for Pregnant and Parenting Women, Obesity/Physical Activity, among others. Dr. White is a graduate of Kentucky Wesleyan College with a BS degree in Chemistry. She earned an MS in Toxicology from the University of Kentucky and worked as a researcher in Teratology at the National Center for Toxicological Research in Little Rock, Arkansas. She completed medical school training at UK and an OB/GYN residency at University of Louisville. She is certified in OB/GYN by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr. White’s professional activities include serving as a District Officer in the American College of OB/GYN (ACOG), her professional organization.

Emily Ferrell currently serves as an Epidemiologist for Kentucky Department for Public Health. She coordinates the collection and analysis of data for maternal and child health programs, which includes creating data reports, presentations, and academic manuscripts. She holds an MPH with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Kentucky and an undergraduate degree from Marshall University in Microbiology. She is in the process of completing a DrPH in Advanced Practice Leadership in Public Health from the University of South Florida. Her research interests include maternal and child health, program evaluation, needs assessment, and data systems linkage.