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Sheela Rath Geraghty, MD, MS, IBCLC, FAAP

Medical Director, Center for Breastfeeding Medicine

Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

Phone: 513-636-2526

Fax: 513-636-4402

Email: sheela.geraghty@cchmc.org

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Specialties

Breastfeeding; breast milk pumping; human milk banking; multiple births

Biography

Sheela R. Geraghty, MD, is a general pediatrician and lactation consultant. Dr. Geraghty is the medical director for the Cincinnati Children’s Center for Breastfeeding Medicine. Dr. Geraghty’s research and clinical practice focuses on barriers to successful breastfeeding.

Education and Training

BS: Biology, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, 1991.

MD: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 1995.

Residency: Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, 1995-1998.

Chief Residency: Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit, MI, 1998-1999.

Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2000-2003.

MS: University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2003.

Certification: Pediatrics, 2006, International Board Certified Lactation Consultant, 2011.

Publications

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Geraghty SR, Saluja K, Merchant M. Breastfeeding Disparities: Challenges and Solutions. Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition. 2012;4(4):207-214.

Geraghty SR, Sucharew H, Rasmussen KM. Trends in breastfeeding; It’s not only at the breast any more. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2012. Epub ahead of print.

Martin MA, Lassek WD, Gaulin SJ, Evans RE, Woo JG, Geraghty SR, Davidson BS, Morrow AL, Kaplan HS, Gurven MD. Fatty acid composition in the mature milk of Bolivian forager-horticulturalists: comparisons with a U.S. sample. Maternal and Child Nutrition. 2012;8(3):404-418.

Geraghty SR, Tabangin ME, Davidson BS, Morrow AL. Predictors of Breast Milk Expression by One Month Postpartum and Influence on Breast Milk Feeding Duration. Breastfeeding Medicine. 2012;7(2):112-7.

Rasmussen KM, Geraghty SR. The quiet revolution: Breastfeeding transformed with the use of breast pumps. The American Journal of Public Health. 2011;101(8):1356-9.

Geraghty SR, Heier JE, Rasmussen KM. Got Milk? Sharing human milk via the internet. Public Health Reports. 2011;126(2):161-164.

Leonard SA, Labiner-Wolfe J, Geraghty SR, Rasmussen KM. Associations among high prepregnancy body mass index, breast milk expression, and breast milk production and feeding. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. 2011 Mar;93(3):556-63.

Geraghty SR. Photo Album of Pumped Breastmilk. Breastfeed Med. 2010 Dec 6.

Vaughn LM, Ireton C, Geraghty SR, Diers T, Niño V, Falciglia GA, Valenzuela J, Mosbaugh C. Sociocultural influences on the determinants of breast-feeding by Latina mothers in the Cincinnati area. Fam Community Health. 2010 Oct-Dec;33(4):318-28.

Geraghty SR, List BA, Morrow GB. Guidelines for establishing a donor human milk depot. J Hum Lact. 2010 Feb;26(1):49-52.

Grants

Microbial Food Safety Concerns of Sharing Human Milk via the Internet. Co-Investigator. Food Innovation Center, The Ohio State University (Keim). Aug 2012 - Jul 2013.