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In Memory of Miriam Labbok MD MPH IBCLC

We, along with breastfeeding supporters around the world, mourn the passing of Miriam Labbok MD, MPH, IBCLC. Miriam was a friend and supporter at the inception of our Lactation Consultant Training Course at Georgetown University Hospital in 1990.  Those of us who had the good fortune to have worked closely with her in those early years, know of her influence on the breastfeeding world. Those who come to this work in the future will not know her personally, but will also be strengthened by her tireless work in support of breastfeeding.

Dr Labbok had a distinguished career beginning at the University of Pennsylvania and Tulane Medical School. She served as Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center of Breastfeeding, and was the Chief of Nutrition and Maternal Health, Division of the Agency of International Development (USAID). She was UNICEF’s Senior Advisor on Infant and Young Child Feeding and Care.

Most recently she was the founder and a professor at the University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health and Director of the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute. She was a favorite speaker at hundreds of breastfeeding conferences and won many achievement awards related to breastfeeding promotion throughout her career.

Dr Labbok’s vision and commitment to protect, support, and promote breastfeeding has had worldwide influence on the health of mothers and infants!

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Vergie Hughes

Vergie Hughes

Vergie Hughes has a long history of experience in Maternal Child Health including labor and delivery, post-partum and pediatrics, and for the past 25 years she has been involved in lactation management. Ms. Hughes has a BSN from Pacific Lutheran University and a MS from Georgetown University. She has been a board certified lactation consultant since 1985. At Georgetown University Hospital, she was the director of the Human Milk Bank. She created and developed the National Capitol Lactation Center and the one week Lactation Consultant Training Program. This course has trained more than 4,000 Lactation Consultants since its inception in 1990.


She has been a private practice lactation consultant and business owner, and operated her own lactation center, Washington’s Families First. Lactation Education Resources On-Line is her website, offering training to professionals and information to parents as well. Ms. Hughes has served on the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and has served on the IBLCE exam writing committee. Her first love is teaching and that is exemplified by the creativity of the courses she has developed. A series of courses “The In-patient Breastfeeding Specialist,” "The Out-patient Breastfeeding Specialist” and “The NICU Breastfeeding Specialist” are all designed to advance the lactation management skills of nurses at the bedside. She regularly teaches skills to labor and delivery nurses and just recently developed the course “Towards Exclusive Breastfeeding.”


Ms. Hughes is the program director and content manager for all of the on-line Lactation Education Resources courses. Ms. Hughes was recently honored with a “lifetime achievement award” as Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association (FILCA).

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