LactaLogics believes that our formulations should be optimized by doctors, researchers, and dietitians, not companies.
Our Clinical and Scientific Advisory Board (CSAB) gathers leading experts in human milk research, neonatal nutrition, improvement of neonatal outcomes, milk protein digestion, gastrointestinal development, and NEC (necrotizing enterocolitis) – the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the neonatal intensive care unit.
Together we are bringing more human milk to babies, changing families forever.
Dr. William Rhine is a neonatologist at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health and serves as Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University School of Medicine.
An early adopter of breast milk in the NICU, he is recognized internationally for his work in neonatal nutrition, neurological injury, respiratory failure, and quality improvement for NICUs.
Bruce German is recognized as one of the top experts in human milk. He has been a professor and chemist at UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology since 1988 where he researches the role of fats and other components in the human diet.
Through his research, he develops ways to assess health and metabolism in response to foods. Milk is the model he uses as a genetic blueprint for foods to support health. Its purpose of nourishing growing mammals is the basis of his research to discover physical, functional, and nutritional properties of milk components and to apply these properties as principles to foods.
Dr. Kushal Bhakta is a neonatologist and Medical Director of the NICU at the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). He also serves as Associate Clinical Professor at the UC Irvine School of Medicine.
His clinical focus is around improving outcomes for Extremely Low Birth Weight infants and improving neurologic outcomes in the NICU.
Dr. Camilia Martin is a neonatologist and Division Chief of Newborn Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine.
Her research interests include neonatal nutrition and its impact on health and disease in the preterm infant. Her focus is on fat digestion and fatty acid metabolism, postnatal intestinal adaptation, development of local and systemic immune defenses, and regulation of the inflammatory response.
Dr. Steven McElroy is a neonatologist and Physician-Scientist at UC Davis Children’s Hospital.
His work is focused on the mechanisms of gastrointestinal epithelial cell injury and repair during development, especially as it relates to NEC, where medical treatments and mortality have been essentially unchanged since its discovery in the 1960s. His long-term goal is to better understand how different gastrointestinal developmental stages differ in their response to inflammation, and specifically the mechanism by which immaturity of the small intestine predisposes the development of NEC.
Dr. Jonathan Palma is a neonatologist at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies with an administrative appointment as a clinical informaticist at Orlando Health.
His clinical informatics interests include extending the EHR with integrated mobile and web apps to enhance the quality and safety of patient care and improve the provider experience. His academic work includes clinical data analysis and interventional informatics to achieve examples of a learning healthcare system.
