Elliott Main, MD

Elliott Main, MD founded and directed the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative for 16 years to 2023 and served as the Chair of the California Maternal Mortality Review Committee during those years. Nationally, Main was the co-founder and currently the lead for QI Implementation for AIM, the national project, funded thru HRSA and based at ACOG, for supporting state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives in their efforts to reduce maternal mortality and severe morbidity. Main is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University in the Dunlevie Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine.  He has served or chaired national committees on Maternal Quality Measurement for ACOG, the AMA, The Joint Commission, Leap Frog and CMS. He has authored over 180 articles on maternal mortality, improving obstetric outcomes, obstetric quality measures and perinatal collaboratives.  Main has received the ACOG Distinguished Service Award for his work in quality improvement and in 2025, he received the National Quality Forum/The Joint Commission John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Individual Achievement.