Elliott Main, M.D.
Medical Director
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative

Elliott Main, MD, has been the Director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC) since its formation in 2005. He also chairs the California Maternal Mortality Review Committee and has authored two national Maternity Quality Improvement Toolkits on Obstetric hemorrhage and Elective Delivery <39 weeks gestation.

Dr. Main currently serves on multiple national committees on Maternal Quality Measurement including NQF, ACOG, PCPI/AMA (Co-Chair), The Joint Commission, NCQA and the RAND Corporation. He also co-chairs a national ACOG and NCHS project-“reVITALize” to standardize maternity definitions for quality measures and birth certificates. Dr Main has recently been asked to serve on the upcoming national CMS-CMCS (Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services) Expert Panel on Improving Maternal and Infant Health Outcomes.

Dr. Main trained in obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University School of Medicine and in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr Main is a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, and Visiting Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University.

Since 1998, he has been the Chairman of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. That department, with over 100 Ob/GYN's and over 6,000 annual births is one of the largest in the US.