Professor
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Emily DeFranco, DO, MS is clinician scientist conducting clinical research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Her primary research interest is in the area of preterm birth, focusing on both clinical trials for prematurity prevention and epidemiologic studies evaluating genetic and environmental influences to preterm delivery. She has published over 100 peer-reviewed scientific studies and has given hundreds scientific presentations at national and international scientific meetings. Her additional research endeavors include stillbirth, infant mortality, birth spacing, and racial disparities in perinatal outcomes. She enjoys mentoring undergraduate students, medical students, and physicians in training in their acquisition of knowledge of hypothesis generation, study design, and application of clinical research.
Dr. DeFranco is a 1998 graduate of Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. She completed residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky in 2002, where she remained on the OB/GYN faculty from 2002 to 2005. Following fellowship training in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis in 2008, she joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati in the Department of OB/GYN. She received a Master’s Degree in Clinical and Translational research from the University of Cincinnati in 2010. She is the Director of the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine and Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where she is also the Vice Chair of Obstetrics, Research and Faculty Development. She is board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and Maternal Fetal Medicine, and is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.