Dr. Jack Newman, Expert Breastfeeding Help and Advice (Old)

  Dr. Jack Newman is the Executive Director of the International Breastfeeding Centre and author of The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers with Teresa Pitman, a help guide for professionals and mothers on breastfeeding. In 2006, Dr. Newman and Teresa Pitman published The Latch and Other Keys to Breastfeeding Success. Dr. Newman graduated from the University of Toronto medical school in 1970, interning at Vancouver General Hospital. He did his training in pediatrics in Quebec City and the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from 1977-1981, and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada, as well as Board Certified by the AAP in 1981. Dr. Newman has worked as a physician in Central America, New Zealand and as a pediatrician in South Africa. He founded the first hospital-based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. Dr. Newman has been a consultant for UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative, evaluating the first candidate hospitals in...