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Dr Bergman graduated at the University of Cape Town, and has worked in South Africa, Ciskei and, Sweden, before working seven years as Medical Superintendent and District Medical Officer at Manama Mission, Zimbabwe. Here he, together with Midwife Agneta Jurisoo, developed and implemented Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for premature infants right from birth. This resulted in a five-fold improvement in survival of Very Low Birth Weight babies.
He introduced KMC to South Africa in 1995, and after 5 years, KMC became official policy for care of prematures in the hospitals of the Western Cape province. He has given keynote addresses on KMC at International Conferences in six continents, and published articles on a variety of subjects in medical journals. He continues to research and promote KMC.
He was for 6 years Senior Medical Superintendent of the Mowbray Maternity Hospital (7000 deliveries per year) and five Midwife Obstetric Units (11000 deliveries per year). Dr Bergman continues to live and work in Cape Town, as a Consulting Public Health Physician. He is also a research affiliate with the Medical Research Council of South Africa.
Apart from his original degree, he holds a Diploma in Child Health, a Masters degree in Public Health, and a Doctoral degree in Clinical Pharmacology, on the effects of scorpion stings.
He is married to Jill, and father to Rebecka, Simon and Emma.
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Dr. Saenz is a native of Vicksburg, MS, and graduated from Belhaven College in Jackson. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and completed residency training in Family Medicine at the University of Tennessee at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis, TN. She returned to the University of Mississippi in 1994 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine.
When her first child was born in 1996, Dr. Saenz realized how little her medical training had actually prepared her to breastfeed her daughter. However, with access to the entire body of medical literature and practical help from the local La Leche League, she soon found answers to her problems. Realizing the need for better training for physicians in supporting mothers in their breastfeeding, she founded the UMC Breastfeeding Consult Service in 1997, for which she received special recognition from the Mississippi State Health Department.
Besides being a diplomate of the American Board of Family Practice, Dr. Saenz became an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant in 1999. In 2002, she became the only physician in Mississippi to have earned the degree of Fellow of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine, given to members of the Academy who have attained clinical, research, and advocacy expertise. Dr. Saenz became an accredited La Leche League leader in 2004.
As breastfeeding rates continued to climb, the need became apparent for a specialty clinic in Mississippi devoted exclusively to the unique needs of breastfeeding mothers and their babies. Dr. Saenz established the Mississippi Breastfeeding Medicine Clinic in July 2003 to meet those needs. In April 2004, the clinic was honored the Mississippi Department of Health and La Leche League of Alabama/ Louisiana/Mississippi for “promoting, supporting, and protecting breastfeeding” in Mississippi.
Dr. Saenz also serves on the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Breastfeeding Coalition and the advisory panel for the Mississippi Department of Health Breastfeeding Program. She is a regular speaker at the annual Breastfeeding: The Gold Standard conference in Jackson, and has been a guest speaker at numerous other conferences. The coalition honored Dr. Saenz in 2002 by establishing an annual scholarship in her name to the Gold Standard conference.
Dr. Saenz is married to Joseph M. Saenz, Jr., MD, and they have three children, Janette, Larissa and Jacob, whom they enjoy homeschooling. |
