Guest Speaker Program
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About our Guest Speaker program
The NDC Institute's guest speaker series is a live online conference offered in bite-sized pieces at a convenient time of day for professionals with busy lives, right throughout the year!
We bring you monthly presentations by, and discussions with, highly qualified experts and researchers on a range of topics relevant to the care of parents with infants. The presentations will be of interest to
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Health professionals and providers who are current members of The NDC Institute, for whom attendance is free of charge, and
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Health professionals and providers from the public who are welcome to join us live online for a small fee, to cover admin costs.
All members of The NDC Institute can find how to join these live online talks at the bottom of this page. If you are a member of the public, you can also find how to register for an online talk at the bottom of this page. You are able to self-log the time invested in watching these presentations with your professional organisations, including for L-CERPs with IBLCE.
2026 Guest Speaker Program
| Date | Time | Presenter | Title |
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| Tues 24 Feb 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Zoya Gridneva | Predominantly and exclusively pumping mothers – Why, how and how effective |
| Tues 24 Mar 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Prof Donna Geddes and Dr Pamela Douglas | What clinicians need to know as we make sense of breastfeeding and lactation research |
| Tues 21 Apr 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Sharon Perrella | Human milk: impacts on infant health, growth and development |
| Tues 19 May 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Johanna Lynch | The nature of holistic generalism in medical practice |
| Tues 23 June 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Julie Smith | Improving visibility of the economic and environmental value of breastfeeding |
| Fri 10 July 26 | 7.00-8.00am (AEST) | Dr Christie del Castillo-Hegyi | A Hidden Epidemic: Complications of Insufficient Feeding in Term Breastfed Neonates |
| Tues 28 July 26 | 8.00-9.00pm (AEST) | Dr Michelle Brenner | How Donor Milk Saves Lives: Human Milk as a Medical Intervention (the NICU and beyond) |
| Tues 11 Aug 26 | 8.00-9.00pm (AEST) | Dr Pamela Berens | Lactation and selected maternal medical conditions |
| Fri 28 Aug 26 | 7.00-8.00am (AEST) | Dr Leigh Campbell | Breastfeeding protection and infant safety: The biology behind the clinical decisions |
| Tues 15 Sept 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Anita Elias | Perinatal sexuality Register |
| Tues 13 Oct 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Johanna Lynch | The senses and emotional and mental wellbeing |
| Tues 17 Nov 26 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Elly Taylor | The Relational Blind Spot in Perinatal Primary care: Recognising Relationship Changes as a Foundation for Family Wellbeing |
2025 Guest Speaker Program
| Date | Time | Presenter | Title |
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| Tues 25 Feb 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Adam Ofri | Breast Imaging in the pregnant and lactating patient |
| Tues 11 Mar 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Kate Rassie | Obesity and breastfeeding |
| Tues 8 Apr 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Adam Ofri | Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis + benign breast diseases |
| Tues 29 Apr 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Professor Jeanine Young AM | Reframing from risk to protection to engage families with safe sleep messaging: words matter |
| Tues 13 May 25 | 8.00-9.00pm (AEST) | Dr Kate Rassie | Lactational amenorrhea, lactational osteoporosis and bone health, atrophic vaginitis |
| Tuesday 17 June 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Professor Helen Ball | How babies sleep: the view from anthropology |
| Tuesday 24 June 25 | 7.00-8.00pm | Dr Stuart Prosser | Clinical breastfeeding/lactation screening tools for use antenatally or in the first few days post-birth |
| Tuesday 15 July 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Felicity Davis | The biology of milk ejection: Laboratory based studies to visualise and understand the molecular mechanisms of oxytocin-mediated milk let down |
| Tuesday 12 Aug 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Sharon Perella | Preterm breastfeeding |
| Tuesday 16 Sept 25 | 8.00-9.00pm (AEST) | Dr Leigh Campbell | Persons with HIV and infant feeding approach in the perinatal period |
| Tuesday 14 Oct 25 | 8.00-9.00pm (AEST) | Dr Leigh Campbell | Case report 1: Breastfeeding management of an infant with airway compromise. Case report 2: Breastfeeding management of hyperkeratosis of the nipple |
| Tuesday 18 Nov 25 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Rob Purssey | Exploring the role of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in perinatal mental health |
2024 Guest Speaker Program
| Date | Time | Presenter | Title |
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| Tues 8 Oct 24 | 7.00-8.30pm (AEST) | Dr Kate Rassie | Diabetes, PCOS, breastfeeding |
| Tues 29 Oct 24 | 7.00-8.00pm (AEST) | Dr Adam Ofri | Lactation-related breast complications (abscesses, galactoceles, and fistulas) |
| Tues 26 Nov 24 | 7.00pm (AEST) | Prof Donna Geddes | A research update on the composition of human milk |
Presenters 2026
Dr Johanna Lynch
The nature of of holistic generalism in medical practice
Tuesday 19 May 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Johanna Lynch is an Australian GP of 25 years’ experience who has spent the last 15 years developing innovative clinical approaches to those who have survived childhood trauma and neglect. This clinical work lead to her research focussing on the link between life experience and health. She is a passionate advocate for primary care policy that prioritises generalist whole person approaches that do not fragment or objectify the person. Her research continues to explore the clinical usefulness of the concept of Sense of Safety. Her PhD was acclaimed as paradigm changing by international researchers, and is now an academic book accessed round the world. The book is entitled: A whole person approach to wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety. See www.senseofsafety.com. Johanna is also a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland and trains GPs, GP trainees, multidisciplinary mental health clinicians and medical students in whole person care and mental health skills. She is passionate about caring for clinicians across the disciplines through individual and group supervision and mentoring.
Dr Julie Smith
Improving visibility of the economic and environmental value of breastfeeding
Tuesday 23 June 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Julie P Smith B Ec (Hons)/B A (Asian Studies), PhD is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University and Associate Professor at the Health Research Institute, University of Canberra. Her recent ARC Future Fellowship investigated economic and environmental aspects of breastfeeding and markets in mothers’ milk. She has advised the US Surgeon-General Office and World Health Organization (WHO) on the economics of breastfeeding, and led evidence reviews for WHO and the Australian Department of Health.
Dr Smith has also worked with international civil society organisations such as IBFAN and WABA. She led development of the Mothers’ Milk Tool and the Green Feeding Tool with Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia Pacific. She has published over 65 peer-reviewed articles, including in The Lancet and the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, and is an Associate Editor for International Breastfeeding Journal.
Dr Smith was previously a senior economist in Australian and New Zealand government departments of Treasury, Finance, and Environment, working on development assistance and international finance, national accounting, taxation, and water markets.
Dr. Christie del Castillo-Hegyi
A Hidden Epidemic: Complications of Insufficient Feeding in Term Breastfed Neonates
Friday 10 July 2026, 7.00-8.00am (AEST)
Dr. Christie del Castillo-Hegyi is an American board-certified emergency physician who obtained her medical degree from University of California, San Francisco and completed her residency training in emergency medicine at the University of New Mexico, U.S.A. She is a cofounder of the Fed Is Best Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for hospital and global health policy reforms on infant feeding management and providing parent and health professional education to prevent complications of insufficient infant feeding that result in brain injury, neurodevelopmental delays, disabilities, and rare deaths. She is a member of the Global Development Disability Research Collaborators and has co-authored papers on hypernatremic dehydration and the global rise in childhood disabilities.
Dr. Michelle Brenner
How Donor Milk Saves Lives: Human Milk as a Medical Intervention (the NICU and beyond)
Tuesday 28 July 2026, 8.00-9.00pm (AEST)
Dr. Michelle Brenner MD, FAAP, IBCLC is the Medical Director of The King’s Daughters Milk Bank at the Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters (CHKD) and Professor of Pediatrics at Macon & Joan Brock Virginia Health Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. She serves as an attending physician in General Academic Pediatrics, the pediatric residency and medical student ambulatory teaching practice at CHKD.
Dr. Brenner is an International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant and a graduate of The Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine Fellowship Program. She also serves as Medical Director of the Children’s Specialty Group Division of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Professor Pamela Berens
Lactation and Selected Maternal Medical Conditions
Tuesday 11 August 2026, 8.00-9.00pm (AEST)
Dr Pamela Berens received her medical degree from the University of Minnesota and completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston (now known as McGovern Medical School at UTHealth) where she subsequently joined the faculty. She serves as Dr. John T. Armstrong Professor and Vice-Chair - Clinical Affairs, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth, and Chief of Service - OB/GYN at the Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital – Harris Health.
Dr Berrens has an active clinical practice and teaches medical students and residents. In her role as an IBCLC she sees mothers referred for consultation with difficult breastfeeding complications. Her area of academic and educational focus surrounds pregnancy and postpartum care, breastfeeding and breastfeeding complications. She is active in the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine previously serving as a board member, meeting co-chair and contributing author for 3 separate ABM protocols.
Dr Leigh Campbell
Breastfeeding Protection and Infant Safety: The biology behind the clinical decisions
Friday 28 August 2026, 7.00-8.00am (AEST)
Dr Leigh Campbell is a board certified paediatrician, neonatologist and lactation medicine physician based in Mississippi, USA. She developed a passion for lactation medicine in 2011 following the birth of her twins with the beginning of her own breastfeeding journey.
Through Leigh's work in the Division of Newborn at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), the Department of Child and Adolescent Health at Mississippi State Department of Health, the Mississippi Perinatal Quality Collaborative and her own lactation private practice, Dr. Campbell understands the great importance of supporting the health of Mississippi families as they transition through infancy and beyond.
In 2020, Dr. Campbell founded the "Bloom and Grow Lactation Medicine" clinic in which she still practices. Additionally, Dr. Campbell serves as the Director of the Lactation Clinic at UMMC. In July of 2023 with the support of the Chief of Newborn Medicine, Leigh and her colleagues opened the first hospital-based UMMC Lactation Clinic to meet the community need of outpatient evidence-based lactation support. It is the only physician-led lactation clinic in the state.
Dr Anita Elias
Perinatal Sexuality
Tuesday 15 September 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Anita Elias MBBS, FASPM, FECSM (she/her) is a medical practitioner, with a background in General Practice. She trained in individual, couple and family therapy and has specialised and worked in Sexual Medicine and Sexual and Relationship Therapy for 30 years. She attained the inaugural international Fellowship of the European Committee of Sexual Medicine (FECSM) in 2012. Anita is Head of the Sexual Medicine and Therapy Clinic at Monash Health (where she’s worked for 25 years), as well as working in private practice. She is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Monash University, educating undergraduate and post graduate students as well as health practitioners and the community in sexual issues. Clinically, Anita sees people presenting with all sexual difficulties, welcomes diversity, and takes a person centred, collaborative, biopsychosociocultural approach. She has special interests in sexual pain, and the mind /body connection.
Dr Johanna Lynch
The senses and emotional and mental wellbeing
Tuesday 13 October 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Johanna Lynch is an Australian GP of 25 years’ experience who has spent the last 15 years developing innovative clinical approaches to those who have survived childhood trauma and neglect. This clinical work lead to her research focussing on the link between life experience and health. She is a passionate advocate for primary care policy that prioritises generalist whole person approaches that do not fragment or objectify the person. Her research continues to explore the clinical usefulness of the concept of Sense of Safety. Her PhD was acclaimed as paradigm changing by international researchers, and is now an academic book accessed round the world. The book is entitled: A whole person approach to wellbeing: Building Sense of Safety. See www.senseofsafety.com Johanna is also a Senior Lecturer at The University of Queensland and trains GPs, GP trainees, multidisciplinary mental health clinicians and medical students in whole person care and mental health skills. She is passionate about caring for clinicians across the disciplines through individual and group supervision and mentoring.
Elly Taylor
The Relational Blind Spot in Perinatal Primary Care: Recognising Relationship Changes as a Foundation for Family Wellbeing
Tuesday 17 November 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Elly Taylor is an Australian relationship counsellor, author, educator and creator of the Becoming Us relationship-developmental framework for pregnancy, birth and early parenthood. For more than 30 years she has worked with individuals, couples and families, helping translate relationship science into practical approaches that strengthen parental wellbeing, infant development and family mental health.
Her work has been integrated into antenatal education within Sydney hospitals and is currently being independently evaluated by the University of Wollongong. Elly has trained more than 2,000 health and helping professionals across Australia, the UK and the United States, and regularly presents at national and international conferences. She is a founding member of the Australian Alliance for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health and is passionate about strengthening relationally-aware perinatal care across health systems.
Past presenters
Dr Sharon Perrella
Human milk: impacts on infant health, growth and development
Tuesday 21 April 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Sharon Perrella, PhD(Dist) RN RM IBCLC, is a Research Fellow at the Geddes Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group, UWA. Sharon has a clinical background and experience in paediatrics, midwifery and neonatal intensive care with a special interest in preterm breastfeeding and milk production. Since PhD graduation Sharon has used ultrasound and intraoral vacuum measurement to examine sucking dynamics and suck-swallow-breathe coordination, while her current work focuses on the identification and management of women at risk of reduced breastfeeding duration. Her clinical knowledge, experience and desire to improve outcomes for mothers and infants has driven her passion to make a difference by leading human lactation research, resulting in new knowledge and meaningful changes in evidence-based care.
Professor Donna Geddes and Dr Pamela Douglas
Discussion: What clinicians need to know as we make sense of breastfeeding and lactation research
Tuesday 24 March 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Professor Donna Geddes is Director, School of Molecular Sciences, Centre for Human Lactation Research and Translation and Senior Principal Research Fellow, School of Molecular Sciences Donna has dedicated her career to advancing our understanding of human lactation and maternal-infant health. She has had several leadership roles including, Head of the Geddes Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group, Director of the Australian Breastfeeding Research + Lactation Research and Science Translation Network, and Milk Sensor Lead and ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Next-Gen Technologies in Biomedical Analysis.
Dr Zoya Gridneva
Predominantly and exclusively pumping mothers – Why, how and how effective
Tuesday 24 February 2026, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Zoya Gridneva PhD BSc is a Research Fellow at the Geddes Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group, UWA. Zoya has a biochemical background with emphasis in proteomics and has previously worked in the biomedical field and in different research settings in ophthalmology. Since PhD graduation Zoya's work has focussed on human milk composition, production and removal, and infant health, growth, and development. Her research has been widely recognized, with awards and articles highlighting the findings on effects of daily intakes of human milk components on infant body composition and contribution to significant innovations in breast pump technology, benefitting mothers and babies worldwide.
Dr Rob Purssey
Exploring the role of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors in perinatal mental health
Tuesday 18 November 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Rob Purssey is an Australian Psychiatrist with over 20 years’ experience and is also a highly skilled Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (or Contextual Behavioural Science) therapist. He has a wealth of experience, helping people in diverse settings from home to High Secure. After completing psychiatric training Rob trained extensively in the theory and practice of ACT and specialised in its application in psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy. He is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in Psychiatry at the University of Queensland and trains psychologists, doctors and others in ACT as well as providing ACT based psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy to his clients.
Rob closely follows developments in psychology, psychiatry, and psychopharmacology, and brings this knowledge to his work well before many other psychiatrists. His expertise is using the newest evidence-based treatments for all psychological problems, and in the optimal role of pharmacotherapy based on a sound, critical approach to science. Rob’s work is rigorously informed by independent science and is carefully based on what has been shown to work in research studies.
Science, compassion, mindfulness, acceptance, values, and community inspire Rob’s life and work.
Dr Leigh Campbell
Case report 1: Breastfeeding management of an infant with airway compromise. Case report 2: Breastfeeding management of hyperkeratosis of the nipple
Tuesday 14 Oct 25, 8.00-9.00pm (AEST)
Dr Campbell is a board certified paediatrician, neonatologist and lactation medicine physician based in Mississippi, USA. She developed a passion for lactation medicine in 2011 following the birth of her twins with the beginning of her own breastfeeding journey.
Through Leigh's work in the Division of Newborn at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC), the Department of Child and Adolescent Health at Mississippi State Department of Health, the Mississippi Perinatal Quality Collaborative and her own lactation private practice, Dr. Campbell understands the great importance of supporting the health of Mississippi families as they transition through infancy and beyond.
In 2020, Dr. Campbell founded the "Bloom and Grow Lactation Medicine" clinic in which she still practices. Additionally, Dr. Campbell serves as the Director of the Lactation Clinic at UMMC. In July of 2023 with the support of the Chief of Newborn Medicine, Leigh and her colleagues opened the first hospital-based UMMC Lactation Clinic to meet the community need of outpatient evidence-based lactation support. It is the only physician-led lactation clinic in the state.
Dr Sharon Perrella
Preterm Breastfeeding
Tuesday 12 August 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
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Dr Sharon Perrella, PhD(Dist) RN RM IBCLC, is a Research Fellow at the Geddes Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group, UWA. Sharon has a clinical background and experience in paediatrics, midwifery and neonatal intensive care with a special interest in preterm breastfeeding and milk production. Since PhD graduation Sharon has used ultrasound and intraoral vacuum measurement to examine sucking dynamics and suck-swallow-breathe coordination, while her current work focuses on the identification and management of women at risk of reduced breastfeeding duration. Her clinical knowledge, experience and desire to improve outcomes for mothers and infants has driven her passion to make a difference by leading human lactation research, resulting in new knowledge and meaningful changes in evidence-based care.
Dr Felicity Davis
The biology of milk ejection: Laboratory based studies to visualise and understand the molecular mechanisms of oxytocin-mediated milk let down
Tuesday 15 July 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Felicity Davis holds a joint appointment between the University of New South Wales and Aarhus University in Denmark. She has brought together her unique expertise in calcium signalling, mammary biology, adult stem cells and volumetric imaging, with the overarching goal of improving our understanding of mothers’, women’s and babies’ health.
Felicity trained as a pharmacist before embarking on a PhD in the field of breast cancer at the University of Queensland. She subsequently trained at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIH/NIEHS) in North Carolina as an NIH Visiting Fellow and in the Department of Pathology and Cambridge Stem Cell Institute at University of Cambridge as an NHMRC CJ Martin Fellow. In 2018, Felicity was awarded an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship and Project Grant to start her independent research group in Australia. She currently runs two labs at the School of Biomedical Sciences in Sydney and the Department of Biomedicine in Aarhus, with generous support from the NHMRC and Novo Nordisk Foundation.
Dr Stuart Prosser
Clinical breastfeeding/lactation screening tools for use antenatally or in the first few days post-birth
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Stuart Prosser has extensive experience in general practice, anaesthetics, GP obstetrics and medical administration. He has collaborated with the Geddes Hartmann Human Lactation Research Group to create a research/based breastfeeding antenatal screening tool. Further details on Dr Prosser can be found here https://stuartprosser.com
Professor Helen Ball
How Babies Sleep: the view from anthropology
Tuesday 24 June 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Professor Helen Ball is Director of the Durham Infancy & Sleep Centre, Durham University. She studies infant sleep and the parent-infant sleep relationship from a biosocial perspective. She has conducted research in hospitals and the community, and contributes to national and international policy and practice guidelines on infant care. Helen also pioneers the translation of academic research on infant sleep into evidence for use by parents and healthcare staff via BASIS - the Baby Sleep Information Source website (www.basisonline.org.uk). In 2013 Helen received an award for Outstanding Impact in Society from the Economic and Social Research Council, and in 2018 Durham University was awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for her research and outreach on parent-infant sleep. A large preliminary study led by Professor Ball demonstrating the benefits of Sleep, Baby & You in the UK is published here. Helen’s book How Babies Sleep A Factual Guide to the first 365 Days and Nights has just been published and is available here.
Dr Adam Ofri
Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis + benign breast diseases
Tuesday 8 April 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Dr Adam Ofri is a Breast Surgeon with Northern Breast Care in North Sydney, Goals in Bondi Junction and is a Visting Medical Officer at Bega South-East Regional Hospital. He has interests in preventative breast care (including tailored breast screening and risk assessment), benign and malignant breast disease. He also has a passion for academia being a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and a Clinical Research Fellow at the Royal Prince Alfred Institute of Academic Surgery. He is the recipient of the 2023 and 2024 Clinical Research Fellowships for Breast Cancer Trials and was awarded the 2023 John Collins Medal. His research is focussed on evaluating targeted axillary dissection in Australia and New Zealand, as well as designing a national RCT to evaluate DCISionRT.
You can visit Dr Ofri's website here.
Professor Jeanine Young AM
Reframing from risk to protection to engage families with safe sleep messaging: words matter
Tuesday 29 April 2025, 7.00-8.00pm (AEST)
Professor Jeanine Young is a registered nurse, midwife, and neonatal nurse. Jeanine has a special interest in the development of community based, wrap around care interventions to support families with social vulnerabilities who experience the greatest burden of infant mortality. Jeanine works in partnership with communities, government, industry, and safety and regulatory bodies, in translating evidence into practical parenting advice. Jeanine is the Australian lead for the Pēpi-Pod® Program in collaboration with Change for our Children New Zealand. In 2022 this program was associated with infant mortality reductions in Queensland. She is also co-clinical lead for the 2022 Qld Health Safer Infant Sleep Clinical Guideline which embedded a risk minimisation approach into service delivery. Jeanine was awarded Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2020 for her significant contributions to medical research in infant mortality prevention, tertiary education and nursing.
Dr Kate Rassie
Lactational amenorrhea, lactational osteoporosis and bone health, atrophic vaginitis
Tuesday 13 May 2025, 8.00-9.00pm
Dr Kate Rassie is a consultant endocrinologist at Monash Health and at Jean Hailes for Women’s Health, Melbourne. She is also a final-year PhD candidate at Monash Centre for Health Research and Implementation, Monash University. Her doctoral thesis focuses on the relationships between maternal metabolic health and breastfeeding, with a focus on insulin-resistant conditions such as PCOS and diabetes. Clinically, she works in diabetes, obesity and metabolism; and is across all aspects of female hormonal health including menopause, PCOS and menstrual disorders.
Details on Dr Rassie's research group at Monash University, Melbourne can be found here.
How to register and join online
All NDC Institute Masterclass, Accreditation Pathway and Maintenance, and NDC Providers + Educators registrants are welcome to join the live online Guest Presenter presentations at no additional cost. The zoom link for the presentation can be found in the education hub as follows:
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Module 1 - Masterclass registrants
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Module 2 - NDC Maintenance members
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Module 3 - NDC Accreditation members
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Getting Started, Module 1: NDC for Provider+Educator registrants
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Step #4 - Sleep Baby and You registrants
Registered health professionals who are not members of the NDC Accreditation and Pathway programs can join by registering via the Eventbrite links below:
2026
Dr Johanna Lynch, 19 May 2026 The nature of holistic generalism in medical practice - Registration
Dr Julie Smith, Tuesday 23 June 2026 Improving visibility of the economic and environmental value of breastfeeding - Registration
Dr Pamela Berrens, Tuesday 11 August 2026 Lactation and Selected Maternal Medical Conditions - Registration
Dr Anita Elias, Tuesday 15 September 2026 Perinatal Sexuality -Registration
Dr Johanna Lynch, Tuesday 15 October 2026 The senses and emotional and mental wellbeing - Registration
Presentations will not be available by recording (other than in specific sections of the NDC Lactation Felllowship).
Further details on our guest speaker program are coming soon - please watch this space!
