Faculty members

Sooky Lum

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 birthweight for gestation and airway function during infancy which formed the basis of her PhD thesis.  Since her PhD 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) taskforce in the standardisation 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. She is currently the principal investigator for the Wellcome Trust funded “Size and Lung function In Children” (SLIC) study to explore the associations of body size, shape and composition on ethnic differences in lung function in children (www.ucl.ac.uk/slic).