"Latching on to a healthy solution"
Mount Sinai MD/MPH Global Health Track Alumnus Jonathan Goldfinger featured in JewishJournal.com for work on hospital breastfeeding program.
Mount Sinai MD/MPH Global Health Track Alumnus Jonathan Goldfinger was recently featured in JewishJournal.com for his work on hospital breastfeeding program.
Dr. Goldfinger, currently a third-year pediatric resident at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the co-founderof LATCH (Lactation, Advocacy and Teaching) NOW, a program run in partnership with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center, and Network of WICs . The program’s goal is to improve services and education about breastfeeding inside and outside of hospitals. While an MD/MPH student at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Dr. Goldfinger travelled to Honduras to work on a trauma surveillance project for the Honduran Ministry of Health.
Read more about Dr. Goldfinger’s work with LATCH NOW (the article also contains a short video)
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