Biography:

 

Dr. Rebecca Hoban is a board-certified neonatologist with a strong clinical, research, and educational interest in neonatal nutrition, human milk and lactation. Dr. Hoban graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed pediatric residency at Cincinnati Children’s, neonatology fellowship at Tufts Floating Hospital Boston, and a masters in public health at Harvard. She has held positions as a staff neonatologist at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, the Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto, where she was Director of Breastfeeding Medicine, and Seattle Children’s/University of Washington, where she held roles as both Director of Breastfeeding Medicine and Director of Clinical Guideline Development. In October 2026, she returned to Canada to join BC Women’s/UBC as the NICU Clinical Director and NeoCHIRP (Children’s Intestinal Rehabilitation Project) Neonatal Program Lead. She brings extensive clinical, educational, and training experiences and is active in clinical and translational human milk research. Recent research and clinical projects include improving human milk provision in the high-risk neonatal population, milk sodium and biomarkers to predict lactation success, lactation in the context of substance use, and human milk as therapy in preterm infants with brain injury