| Dr Lisa Amir |
 | Lecturer |
| Biography |
Lisa Amir is a lecturer at the Key Centre for Women's Health in Society and a medical practitioner with a long-standing interest in women's health. She qualified as a lactation consultant in 1989 and continues to work in this area in private practice and at the Royal Women's Hospital. She completed a research masters degree at the Key Centre examining the role of Candida albicans in nipple and breast pain in lactating women. She received a NHMRC Public Health PhD scholarship and completed a PhD entitled "Prevalence and prevention of mastitis in lactating women" at Mother & Child Health Research, La Trobe University. As a NHMRC Health Professional Research Fellow she is continuing to research nipple and breast pain in breastfeeding women as well as initiating research into medications for breastfeeding women in collaboration with Dr Marie Pirotta from the Department of General Practice.
She in the Editor-in-Chief of the online journal International Breastfeeding Journal.
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