Professor
University of North Carolina
Tracy Manuck, MD, MS, is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine where she serves as medical director of the Prematurity Prevention Program. She is a two-time award winner of the National March of Dimes award for the Best Research in Prematurity. Dr. Manuck is nationally and internationally renowned for her clinical and translational research and has served on multiple Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine committees and special task forces and given invited lectures worldwide.
Dr. Manuck is actively involved in teaching and mentoring and serves as co-Director of Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellow research at UNC. Her clinical interests and expertise include preterm labor / cervical insufficiency, with a focus on how racial and ethic disparities and environmental exposures contribute to this and other adverse pregnancy outcomes. Dr. Manuck is an expert in personalized medicine within obstetrics and actively engaged in NIH-funded translational research aimed at identifying individuals at highest risk for PTB and/or most likely to respond to interventions to prevent adverse outcomes.