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Ginna Wall, RN, MN, IBCLC
Ginna Wall was one of the first International Board Certified Lactation Consultants in WA State. In 1986, she founded the Lactation Program at the University of Washington Medical Center, where she works today as the Coordinator of Lactation Services. Ginna has educated hundreds of health professionals worldwide about every aspect of breastfeeding.
Ginna wrote the first Breastfeeding Nursing Diagnoses accepted by the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association. She is a member of the exam committee of the International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners and contributes to the development of the exam each year. She has written articles for numerous publications and regularly updates a widely-used annotated bibliography of research on the outcomes of breastfeeding versus formula feeding.
Ginna is a founding member of the Seattle-King County Breastfeeding Coalition. She received the March of Dimes, WA Chapter, Distinguished Nurse of the Year Award in 2005 and is also recipient of the 2007 Breastfeeding Coalition of WA Spirit of Service Award. Ginna is a member of the Physician Lactation Education Collaborative of Washington which developed groundbreaking evidence based Lactation Education for Physicians modules.
She is a member of the University of Washington Clinical Faculty for the School of Nursing, Adjunct Faculty at Bastyr University, and on the faculty of the Simkin School, a program of the Seattle Midwifery School, since 2005.