Dr. Foglia is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and an academic neonatologist at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She completed her medical school training at Washington University School of Medicine, and she performed her pediatric residency training at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. She was a neonatology fellow at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, during which time she pursued advanced training through the Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology program at the University of Pennsylvania.
The over-arching goal of her research program is to generate high quality evidence to prevent mortality and morbidity for high-risk infants who require resuscitation and respiratory management. Output from her group has had immediate impact on national and international neonatal resuscitation guidelines. She leads the following multi-center neonatal clinical trials: Diaphragmatic Initiated Ventilatory Assist (DIVA) funded by NHLBI; Optimizing Tracheal Intubation Outcomes and Neonatal Safety (OPTION SAFE) funded by NICHD; and Supraglottic Airway for Resuscitation (SUGAR), funded by PCORI.
Dr. Foglia serves on the Executive Committee for the international NEAR4NEOS network, and she is the Scientific PI for the American Academy of Pediatrics Delivery Room Intervention and Evaluation (DRIVE) Network, a novel research consortium of delivery hospitals. She has served on the AAP Neonatal Resuscitation Program Steering Committee, and the Neonatal Life Support Taskforce for the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation, which generates treatment guidelines for neonatal resuscitation used globally.
