Karen Bodnar

Dr. Bodnar is a pediatric hospitalist practicing just outside of Washington DC at one of the largest birth hospitals in the US. In 2018, she founded the Inova Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic where she trains medical students and residents from pediatrics, OBGYN and family medicine. She is an associate clinical professor with the University of Virginia School of Medicine and a member of the board of directors of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine. She co-hosts the Breastfeeding Medicine Podcast series and the Clinical Case Discussion webinar series from the Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education. She has been a board-certified lactation consultant since 2010.

She is excited to be a founder of NABBLM to advance the multidisciplinary specialty of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine.