Just to add to Naomi Bar-Yam's excellent suggestion:
Postgraduate students, including health professionals who are planning
postgraduate study, are looking for research projects.  Penny, these
beginning researchers may need your topic!  Busy though you are, perhaps you
or supporters of the milk bank could encourage the local universities to
offer graduate students a topic following the progress of infants and
children who were switched from full artificial feeding to feeding with
pasteurised donor milk.  That makes it win/win - the beginning researcher
gets a good topic and you (and the world) get the research done. If a few
case histories are published first (as recommended by Naomi), that would
probably help push the idea of research.

Virginia
In Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 Naomi Bar-Yam wrote:

Indeed, there is much need for research and publishing case studies in this
area. Penny, I would encourage you and your colleagues to publish some of
your cases in JHL and other medical journals. Each documented case study
adds to the "evidence base" and to the awareness of the importance of human
milk, donor and otherwise.

I know you are quite busy caring for the babies you serve. However, a
collaboration with medical researchers at university or hospitals in your
area to conduct a more systematic study of use of donor milk would be an
important contribution to the field and to the use of donor milk to protect
babies everywhere.

Naomi Bar-Yam
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