Sooky Lum PhD

Dr. Sooky Lum is a Senior Research Fellow at the Respiratory, Critical Care and Anaesthesia department, UCL, Institute of Child Health in London. She initially trained as a nurse and midwife and in 1997, joined the infant lung function research team as a research midwife at the UCL, Institute of Child Health, London to investigate the association between low birth weight for gestation and airway function during infancy which formed the basis of her Ph.D. thesis. Since her Ph.D. award, she has been actively involved in the development and validation of new techniques and equipment for assessing airway function in infants and young children and is an active member of the international (ATS/ERS) task force in the standardization of lung function measurements in infants and young children. Her major research interests focus on lung growth and development in both healthy infants and children as well as in those who were born extremely preterm and in children with cystic fibrosis.