About Us ""

The Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank is a program of and housed within the Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. The milk bank provides neonatal intensive care units, mother baby units, and medically fragile outpatients with tested and pasteurized human milk from screened volunteer donors.

The self-described service region of Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank is Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. The Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank is not limited by geography and can provide samples and data to researcher anywhere across the United States.

Learn more about the milk bank.

Meet our Board

Anne-Marie Rick, MD, MPH, President and Principle Investigator

Instructor of Pediatrics and General Academic Pediatric Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Academic Pediatrics.

Jessica Devido, PhD, Secretary

Assistant Professor, Duquesne University School of Nursing

Ariel Clatty, PhD

Medical Ethicist at UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside Hospital

Janine Bartholomew, PhD

Pharmacology and Chemical Biology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Professor of Biology at Portage Learning

Jill Demirci, PhD, RN, IBCLC

Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh, School of Nursing

Timothy Hand, PhD

Assistant Professor, R.K. Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Meet our Staff

Anne-Marie Rick, MD, MPH

President and Principle Investigator, Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank

Cyndy Verardi, BS, CLC

Co-Director, Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank

Denise O’Connor, BS, IBCLC

Co-Director, Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank

Sara Vins Bobish, JD

Business Manager, Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank

Wyatt Macejka, BA

Biobank Manager, Human Milk Science Institute and Biobank