Associate Professor
Magee-Womens Hospital
Dr. Facco is an Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She is an NIH-funded maternal- fetal medicine physician with over 12 years of experience with clinical research in pregnant populations. She has broad experience both contributing to and leading multi-disciplinary research teams and participating in cooperative agreements for clinical research. She has a national reputation as an expert on sleep physiology in pregnancy and have specifically examined the role of poor sleep and circadian disruption as a risk factor for adverse pregnancy outcomes. She was a co-Investigator in the Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers-to-Be (nuMoM2b) Network (2010-2014). She lead the analyses that described a relationship between objectively measured shortened sleep duration and late sleep timing and the risk of developing gestational diabetes and preterm birth, and a dose-related relationship between sleep apnea (assessed by apnea-hypopnea index) and the risk of gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. She currently is the co-Principal Investigator for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) MFMU Network’s Pittsburgh site. Through this network, she now serves as the Protocol Chair of a 6-year multicenter randomized trial of sleep apnea therapy in pregnancy (SLEEP trial).