Consultant in Obstetrics Specialising in Antenatal Scanning, Fetal & Maternal Medicine
BSc, MBBS, MRCOG, MRCP, MD
Overview
Areas of expertise
Medico-Legal experience
Dr Sacco has completed Bond Solon expert witness training and accepts instructions from both Claimant and Defendant law firms in personal injury and clinical negligence cases. Dr Sacco also accepts coronial and criminal instructions.antina
Clinical Practice & Experience
Dr Sacco first qualified from the Imperial College School of Medicine (ICSM) in London in 2009, and began training in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in North East Thames in 2011. She took time out of training to complete research in fetal surgery, and successfully completed subspecialty training in maternal and fetal medicine at University College London Hospital (UCLH). She works as a Consultant at Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
Dr Sacco also spent five years working as a sexual offences examiner at The Haven Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Whitechapel London, where she carried out forensic examinations for victims of rape and sexual assault and provided expert medical reports for criminal courts.
Clinical Interests
Dr Sacco’s clinical interests and expertise is in antenatal scanning and fetal medicine, obstetrics, intrapartum care and maternal medicine.
Research Interests
Dr Sacco’s research interests include fetal surgery and intervention, fetal pain and analgesia, fetal neurosonography and cardiac imaging. She was co-applicant on a successful grant for over £600,000 to develop fetal surgery in 2020, and was lead applicant on a successful grant for £62,000 to investigate cardiac scanning equipment. She was the co-PI for the TRUFFLE-2 study at Birmingham Women’s Hospital.
Management Experience
In her current hospital, Dr Sacco is the clinical lead for the Day Assessment Unit which manages fetal growth concerns. She has previously held roles on the boards of The Obstetrician and Gynaecologist (TOG) and the British Maternal-Fetal Medicine Society (BMFMS). She was the Chair of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) National Trainees’ Committee. She successfully completed a hospital Executive Shadowing Programme and has been the lead organiser of several national and international conferences.
Summary of Publications
Dr Sacco has published over 20 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and has written three book chapters. She was a co-author of the 2022 RCOG Fetal Awareness Evidence Review and the lead author of the 2025 BMFMS Position Statement on Fetal Pain and Fetal Awareness.
Teaching & Training
At her hospital Dr Sacco is the educational lead for ultrasound training for RCOG trainees, and is responsible for training and assessing midwife sonographers. She has extensive experience teaching undergraduates and trainees both formally and at the bedside. She has supervised MSc and BSc student projects and was co-lead of the UCL MSc Fetal Medicine and Perinatology course.Dr Sacco regularly attends conferences and courses in fetal and maternal medicine for continuous professional development, and has multiple oral and poster presentations at international conferences.
Memberships of Professional Bodies & Learned Societies
Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society
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