General Practitioner with an interest in Womens health and Breastfeeding Medicine and AssistantProfessor in the Department of General Practice at the Donegal Medical Academy. Sarah graduated in 1998 from UCD Medical School and since then has become a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2001 and Irish College of General Practitioners in 2008. Sarah now works as a General Practitioner with interest in womens healthand Breastfeeding medicine. She is currently on a career break from her lecturing roleto develop her Breastfeeding Medicine Practice. She is mother tofive boys, aged from 9 to 21 years. Experiences of medicine, lecturing, mindfulness, breastfeeding and mothering have helped Sarah develop an interest inpregnancy, birthing and breastfeeding practices that promote optimised mother-infant dyad wellbeing and development. She has presented qualitative research exploring breastfeeding experiences of African mothers living in Ireland. She is a member the Donegal Breastfeeding Forum since 2014 and CHO1 breastfeeding Forum since 2021. She facilitated a Special Study Module for medical students in Infant Nutrition and which she has presented at national andinternational conferences, and has developed Undergraduate Breastfeeding Education as part of a General Practice Womens health workshop. She is advocating for the meaningful inclusion of Breastfeeding Education and clinical experience on the University of Galways Medical Schools curriculum, who are currently undertaking an extensive curriculum review. She is undertaking research with colleagues from each of the 8 medical schools in Ireland exploring Breastfeeding Education on Undergraduate Medical Education Programmes with a view to assessing needs and capacity, and to support development of undergraduate breastfeeding education programmes.She is a deep advocate for the inclusion of breastfeeding education also on post graduate courses and among established Physicians. She hopes to undertake more research among trainee GPs to assess infant feeding learning needs and with a view to supporting development of infant feeding programmes for the GP training scheme in Ireland. She has been invited to develop a Breastfeeding Quick reference Guide for General Practitioners by the ICGP and will also be an ICGP representative on the National Baby Friendly Initiative Oversight Committee, which aims to create Maternity Unit that comply with the UNICEF 10 steps to successful breastfeeding, an evidence based strategy to improve initiation rates of breastfeeding.Through collaboration she isbuilding University of Galway capacity for research in Human Milk Science and around Breastfeeding. She is collaborating on research with colleagues in health economics to help, through showing Breastfeeding as a cost effective medical intervention, to increase institutional and governmental interest in creating a culture that promotes, protects and supports breastfeeding. She along with Dr. Ian Stewart, a colleague in Behavioral psychology and Dr. James Connolly, a information technologist in ATU, are supervising a student to explore Breastfeeding Implicit Bias in Health Care professionals.Sarah is a patron of the Arts and feels the modality of Visual Arts wonderfully expresses Breastfeeding and topics which are not spoken about, and thus helps to normalise breastfeeding and all aspects of womens health among thePublic - No restriction. With this in mind, she, along with GUH Arts trust, HRB Mother and Child and the Athena SWAN SAT, organised the CREATE exhibition, about motherhood, birth and beyond to come to GUH, CSI and research institutes. In the Donegal Medical Academy, Fiona Careys piece Breastfeeding Everywhere is on permanently on show for all the medical students to help them appreciate breastfeeding and how it can fit into our busy lives.Helen Hancock, a Glass Artist, has shown her piece Nature Does no Bloom in Private which feature three blown glass breasts with human milk coursing within them.She also has an interest in mindfulness and its capacity to optimise well-being, especially among Medical students, pregnant mothers and partners and thus the whole community. She has been a committee member of the Mindful Way @ NUI Galway and delivers shared mindfulness practice in Donegal Medical Academy since 2017. Sarah co-developed the Mindfulness Special Study Module for medical students in University of Galway in 2017, which ran for 4 years and led to the creation of a School of Medicine well-being module for medical students. She along with the Health Promotion Unit in LUH secured Healthy Ireland Funding for Mindfulness Teaching at the Donegal Medical Academy. She completed a Masters in Mindfulness, UCD June 2020, and since facilitatesmindfulness courses to students. She hopes to deliver mindfulness courses to pregnant moms with a view to researching its effect on medical students and mothers well-being, deliveryoutcomes, breastfeeding implicit bias and initiation rates. She along with researchers and academics is also applying for funding to support a post graduate student investigate Infant Feeding Implicit Bias, which she postulates exists and has a negative impact on breastfeeding practices worldwide.