Maureen has been a member of ISRHML for many years and has served a term on the executive committee. She also served for many years on the United States Breastfeeding committee and is a member of the Expert Panel on Breastfeeding of the American Academy of Nursing. She is also a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Human Lactation. Maureen has been to many ISRHML meetings where she presented her various research studies on milk biology and lactation physiology. Her background is as a nurse physiologist and academic scientist for over 40 years. She has been a program head, associate dean, and president of a small graduate college, but her great love has always been science and research. She was funded for over 20 years by NIH on projects that focused on women and children, and almost all projects had breastfeeding or maternal physiology as essential components. She has over 150 referred journal publications and was elected a distinguished university professor at the University of South Florida, where she worked for 17 years. Maureen recently joined the University of Tennessee, Knoxville as a research professor, with a major goal of developing scientific activities, and mentoring junior faculty.