Sukolrat Boonyayatra is an Associate Professor and Director of Veterinary Skills at the College of Veterinary Medicine, Long Island University. She received her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 2001 from the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, and earned her Master of Science in health science in 2003 from Chiang Mai University in Thailand. Then she started working as an instructor in the Department of Food Animal Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Chiang Mai University. She completed her Ph.D. in Veterinary Science at Washington State University in 2010. She continued to work at Chiang Mai University, where she spent her time teaching ruminant medicine, providing ambulatory service for ruminants, and conducting research on bovine mastitis and bovine tuberculosis from 2010–2022. Her primary research interest is focused on the molecular epidemiology of bovine mastitis pathogens and other infectious diseases in cattle.