Mantapond Ittarat completed an ophthalmology training and fellowship in retinal specialist at the Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital Bangkok, Thailand. She was a visiting researcher in ophthalmology with a three-month International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO) fellowship in glaucoma at Stanford University, Palo Alto, USA. Her areas of research are vitreoretinal surgery, cataract surgery, glaucoma, and retinopathy of prematurity.