Dr. Sarah Sobik was born and raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. She graduated medical school from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 2016. She completed a residency in pediatrics at UAMS and Arkansas Children’s, after which she joined as faculty in the Section of Community Pediatrics at UAMS and is also the Medical Director at the Arkansas Children’s Nutrition Center. Dr. Sobik set out to re-establish the Breastfeeding Medicine and Lactation Clinic at Arkansas Children’s and received her International Board Certified Lactation Consultant certification in spring of 2021 and her board certification in Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine in 2023. Through her clinical work she offers lactation services in the Arkansas Children’s Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine Clinic clinics to newborns and lactating mothers in Central Arkansas and other parts of the state that have limited lactation services through telemedicine. She has focused her research on improving breastfeeding rates in the clinic setting, specifically to at-risk populations, human milk composition, and early nutritional programming on breastmilk composition. Dr. Sobik’s clinical work and research focus is to improve health outcomes and nutrition for infants and their mothers from the start and to improve breastfeeding support for all infant-mother pairs in the state of Arkansas.