Associate Professor Sirinuch Chomtho is the head of the Pediatric Nutrition Research Unit, Division of Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. She received her medical and pediatric training from the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University. From 2003-2008, she was a research fellow at the MRC Childhood Nutrition Research Center, Institute of Child Health, University College London, UK. She received her PhD from the University College London in 2006 and the Diploma in pediatric nutrition from the UK Royal College of Pediatric and Child Health in 2007. Her research interest includes the effects of early nutrition on long-term health, breastfeeding medicine, obesity as well as clinical nutrition. She is currently a scientific committee of the Pediatric Nutrition Association of Thailand, APPSPGHAN and a member of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.