GOLD Speakers

Wilaiporn Rojjanasrirat, PhD, RN, IBCLC, FILCA, FAAN

• Speaker Type: Navigating Challenges in the Care of Tongue-Tied Babies Lecture Pack
• Country: United States

Biography:

Wilai Rojjanasrirat, PhD, RN, IBCLC, FILCA, FAAN is a Professor and Director of Research and Scholarship at Graceland University's School of Nursing in Independence, Missouri. Her background is in midwifery and maternal and child health nursing.

She is an international board certified lactation consultant. She earned her Bachelor's in Nursing and Midwifery from Thailand and Master's and Doctorate and Post-Doctorate in Nursing from the University of Kansas. She teaches in graduate nursing program. Her research focuses on promoting and supporting breastfeeding, psychometric development, and educational outcome evaluation.
Examining racial discrimination, maternal mental health, and breastfeeding outcomes, using telehealth in providing lactation support, and evaluation of the breastfeeding outcomes among late-preterm, near term, and term infants are among some of the research projects.

Dr. Rojjanasrirat has multiple publications and recently contributed to a book chapter on Employment and Breastfeeding in Wambach & Spencer, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, 7th edition in 2024. She served as a former president of the Pi Eta Chapter of the Nursing Honor Society, a board member of the Kansas City Board of Directors of Kansas City, Kansas, and a former president of the Greater Kansas City Lactation Consultant Association for several years.