Elliott Main, MD
Chairman and Chief of Obstetrics; California Pacific Medical Center
Elliott Main, MD, is the Principal Investigator for the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC). He has also been the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco since 1998. That department, with over 90 Ob/GYN's and over 6,000 annual births is one of the largest in the US. Through his career, Dr. Main's clinical work and publications have focused on medical complications of pregnancy and outcomes-based quality improvement. Since 1997, he has also led OB Quality Improvement for all of Sutter Health's 20 hospitals and 40,000 births and developed and led several large-scale data-driven quality improvement efforts. These include Sutter Health's "First Pregnancy and Delivery" quality initiative that focused on the care of nulliparous women. The program has identified and improved key issues in the management of nullip (first) labors that strongly impact outcomes for that birth and for future births.
Dr. Main trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Mo.) and in maternal-fetal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a founding member of CPQCC (1996) and has been actively involved in multiple state and national committees on Maternal Quality including active involvement with the process for identifying new national quality measures for perinatal care. Besides being on many CMQCC committees, he also chairs the California Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review Committee (PAMR) which is taking a novel approach to analyzing maternal deaths by looking for quality improvement opportunities to turn into QI actions.
In his spare time...he helps to edit this web-site (www.cmqcc.org).
Our goal is that the collaborative work we do in California to measure and improve maternal and neonatal outcomes will become a model for the entire United States.
CMQCC Committee Memberships
- CMQCC Executive Committee
- PAMR (Pregnancy-Related and Pregnancy-Associated Mortality Review) Advisory Committee
- Regional Perinatal Programs of California (RPPC)
- Maternal Quality Improvement Panel (MQIP)
- Maternal Information Technology (MIT)
- Newsletters
- LAMH (Local Assistance for Maternal Health) Project
- LAMH (Local Assistance for Maternal Health) Project Advisory Committee
- Maternal Data Committee
- Hemorrhage Task Force
Profile in Improvement
Learn how Elliott Main of Sutter's California Pacific Medical Center is improving the care for first labors and births.
