María del Carmen Iñarritu Pérez graduated in nutrition and food science from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico. In 1979, she graduated in nutrition education in the rural population of Morelos, Mexico. She has a Specialty in child nutrition from the Dr. Federico Gómez Children's Hospital of Mexico, Mexico City, in 1979; and Specialty in obesity and comorbidities and Master's in applied nutrition from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, graduated in 2016 with honors. She has taught nutrition classes at the Universidad Iberoamericana, the National Institute of Cardiology, and the Faculty of Medicine of the UNAM. She worked for 3 years caring for children with malnutrition at the Children's Center for Nutritional Rehabilitation of the Cruz Blanca Neutral. She has been part of the Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine of the National Autonomous University of Mexico from 1999 to present, where she carries out research, teaching, and dissemination activities on topics related to nutrition. With the publication of articles, book chapters, and books on topics related to nutrition and feeding. She participates in developing, delivering, and evaluating breastfeeding workshops for medicine degree students from 2020 to date. Her main lines of research are nutrition and feeding, breastfeeding, eating disorders, obesity, and microbiota, evaluation of the nutritional status of students, dietary patterns, and evaluation of gender violence in medical students.