GOLD Speakers

Dr. Manisha Gogri, MBBS, IBCLC, CBE

• Speaker Type: 2024 Main Presentations
• Country: India

Biography:

Dr. Gogri obtained her (M.B.B.S.) from Seth G.S. Medical College and K.E.M. Hospital, Mumbai in 1998. She has been certified as a childbirth educator since 2002. She designed the first of its kind- pregnancy education and fitness program-FIT FOR BIRTH, for couples in Mumbai in 2002. In 2005, she became associated with BPNI Maharashtra and was accredited as a mother support group (MSG) counsellor, and subsequently a trainer. Dr. Gogri provides training in basic and advanced lactation management to Doctors, Medical students, nursing staff, as well as grass root health workers. She was Secretary of BPNI Maharashtra for 7 years until recently.

Dr. Gogri worked as a LLL leader for 14 years and has recently retired. She was certified as a IBCLC in 2009 (recertified in 2014 and 2019). She has worked as a Lactation Consultant at eminent hospitals in Mumbai and was appointed as Head for SE Asia Region in the Global Collaboration Committee of ILCA (2017-18). Presently, she works in private practice at her lactation clinic – FITFORBIRTH lactation at Powai, Mumbai and also virtually consults with families across the world. She has a special interest in addressing oral issues of infants related to tongue tie and also in induced lactation and clinical lactation. She conducts a unique advance practical training workshop on the topic of tongue tie with 3 other colleagues. Dr. Gogri is a mother of two lovely boys aged 23 and 18.