Dr. Sherin U. Devaskar is a Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Mattel Executive Endowed Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She is the Physician-in-Chief at the Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA and Assistant Vice Chancellor of Children's Health at UCLA Health. She is also the Executive Director of the UCLA Children's Discovery and Innovation Institute. She obtained her MD from the University of Madras, Madras Medical College, in 1975. She has American Board Certifications in Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine. She was the recipient of the 2021 John Howland Award and Medal for Highest Achievements by the American Pediatric Society. She has dedicated her life to unraveling mechanisms underlying the connections between the intra-uterine environment and postnatal origins of disorders in children and subsequently in adults. She has unraveled multiple molecular pathways ranging from epigenetics to function of key proteins involved. Her research is supported by National Institutes of Health. She has authored over 210 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Her past service includes being a member of the National Advisory Child Health and Human Development Council, Chair of the NIH Pregnancy and Neonatology Study Section, and the NICHD Maternal and Child Health Committee, and a member of the NIH Human and Embryology Study Section. Currently, she serves on the advisory board of the NIH Clinical Center Research Hospital.