GOLD Speakers

Dr. Wai Han Amy FUNG, MBBS, IBCLC

• Country: Hong Kong

Biography:

Dr. Amy Fung is a general practitioner and has become an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant since 2009. She has germinated interest in lactation management during the period she worked in government Maternal and Child Health Centre. The passion has been deepened after fully breastfed her three children. Her particular interests are feeding and sleeping issues of infant and young child; breast pain and recurrent mastitis of lactating women.

She has passion for breastfeeding education. She was the course director of the “train-the-trainer” Breastfeeding Course organized by World Health Organization UNICEF in 2014. She contributed the production of the Self Learning Kit on Breastfeeding for Health Professionals published by Department of Health in 2011. Lactation training for health care workers and infant feeding talks for publics are conducted regularly.

She advocates breastfeeding via writing, social and mass media. She is the author of a Chinese written breastfeeding book 《母乳餵哺，知易行難？》ISBN 978-988-8484-51-5 published by Arcadia Press Limited. She was the editorial board member of the E-Newsletter of UNICEF Baby-friendly Hospital Initiative Hong Kong Association for 6 years; and the author of breastfeeding column in local newspaper Ming Pao for 3 years.