Dr. Miena M. Hall, MD, IBCLC is a breastfeeding and lactation medicine physician and International Board Certified Lactation Consultant who has been supporting breastfeeding families since 2005. 

Dr. Hall graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College with her bachelors degree in mathematics and chemistry and earned her medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago. She completed her family medicine residency at the University of Chicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale Hospital and her fellowship in breastfeeding and lactation medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. 

A clinical instructor and research fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Hall's research focuses on the development of predictive models to determine the risk of inadequate milk production based on longitudinal imaging of glandular tissue growth during pregnancy and on the investigation of risk factors associated with low milk production. She has presented her work at the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine (ABM) and the International Society for Research in Human Milk and Lactation (ISRHML).

Dr. Hall is a member of the ABM protocol committee on low milk production, a graduate of the ABM Leadership Academy, and a member of the La Leche League International (LLLI) Medical Advisory Team.  She is also the immediate past president of the Northern Illinois Lactation Consultant Association (NILCA). 

In her free time, Dr. Hall enjoys reading, hiking, volunteering, baking, and spending time with family and friends. She credits her multiple breastfeeding journeys with her four children and the aid which she received as her continuing inspiration to help breastfeeding families in need.