Teresa received a B.S. in public health at Taipei Medical University in Taipei, Taiwan, and M.S degree in epidemiology at Tulane University. She is currently a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh under the mentorship of Dr. Dara Mendez and Dr. Marquis Hawkins.

Teresa’s research interests focus on maternal sleep health. Specifically, she has a strong interest in assessing sleep health among pregnant and postpartum people and identify its associated risk factors and health outcomes. Her dissertation is to assess multidimensional sleep health during pregnancy and associated modifiable factors to improve poor sleep health during pregnancy. 

Select presentations

• Hsiao W.H., Mendez D., Facco, F.L., Levine, M. D., Wallace M.L., Hawkins, M. S., Multidimensional sleep health during nulliparous pregnancy: A prospective study. Poster presentation at the Virtual SLEEP 2021, June 2021 

Select publications 

• Hsiao, W. H., Paterno, M. T., Iradukunda, F., & Hawkins, M. (2020). The Preliminary Efficacy of a Sleep Self-management Intervention Using a Personalized Health Monitoring Device during Pregnancy. Behavioral Sleep Medicine, 1-12.