I'm Dr. Ann Kellams, and I am Medical Director of our Well Newborn Service and Breastfeeding Medicine. I always wanted to be a doctor and in particular a baby doctor and became a general pediatrician sort of fulfilling that dream and was in private practice for almost nine years and then really, really got interested in mothers and babies. What I do is interact with families at a very important time, usually a momentous life event, and I feel privileged to be sort of a visitor or somebody walking with them in that journey. There's nothing like helping a new mom welcome a baby into the world and see a family being born. 

I serve as the representative for the babies on our leadership team that really looks at how can we make the birth process as family-friendly and science-based, state of the art as possible. The other thing I do is I serve as medical director of our breastfeeding medicine program. This program has paired pediatricians and lactation consultants, nutritionists. We also work with the departments of obstetrics and gynecology and family medicine to provide comprehensive care to mothers and babies who are breastfeeding. 

I think that you're at a place at UVA where if there's a problem with mom or baby, you have specialists, you have intensive care units that are right down the hall or a floor away. All the while that's behind the scenes, we're trying to keep this as family-friendly and as sort of normal feeling a process as possible.