Venous Thromboembolism in Pregnancy and Postpartum Task Force

Task Force Writing Group

CMQCC has assembled a comprehensive and impressive team of experts who have generously donated their efforts to developing a toolkit to improve the care of pregnant and postpartum women and reduce morbidity and mortality associated with Venous Thromboembolism. The Task Force includes obstetricians, nurses, internists, anesthesiologists and a patient advocate from The Shane Foundation.

Chair​ 

  • Alexander Friedman MD, MPH
  • Afshan Hameed, MD,  Medical Director OB, Medical Director Quality and Safety
  • Christine Morton PhD, Research Sociologist | Program Manager
  • Douglas Montgomery MD
  • Nancy Peterson  MSN, RNC-OB, PNNP, IBCLC, Director of Perinatal Outreach, Clinical Program Manager

Committee Members

Mark Boddy
MD
Stanford
Clinical Associate Professor,
Obstetrics & Gynecology - Maternal Fetal Medicine
Alex Butwick
MD, MBBS, FRCA, MS
Stanford University Medical School
Associate
Professor, Anesthesiology
Maurice Druzin
MD
Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children's
Hospital
Vice Chair, Dept of OB/GYN
Alexander Friedman
MD, MPH
Columbia University Medical Center, New York
Shabnam Gaskari
PharmD
Stanford Children's Health
Roberta Gold The Shane Foundation
Afshan Hameed
MD
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Medical Director
OB, Medical Director Quality and Safety
Cheryl Hunter-Marston
APRN, MSN, CNS-BC, DNPc
California Department of Public Health –
CFH-MCAH-PD
Nurse Consultant III Specialist
Molly Killion
MSN, CNS
UC San Francisco Medical Center
Perinatal
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Subhashini Ladella
MD, FACOG
UCSF Fresno
Director, Maternal Fetal Medicine
Timothy Lowe
MD
Kaiser Permanente Riverside Medical Center
Elliott Main
MD
CMQCC
Medical Director and Executive Committee
Chair
Greg Maynard
Md, MSc, SFHM
UC Davis Medical Center
Chief Quality Officer
Douglas Montgomery
MD
Kaiser Permanente Medical Center
Carey Moreno-Hunt
MD
Kaiser Permanente Northern California
Christine Morton
PhD
CMQCC
Research Sociologist | Program Manager
Nancy Peterson
MSN, RNC-OB, PNNP, IBCLC
Director of Perinatal Outreach, Clinical Program
Manager
CMQCC
Mari-Paule Thiet
MD
Professor & Director, MFM Division
University
of California, San Francisco
Douglas Woelkers
MD
University of California, San Diego

Funding Acknowledgement

This toolkit is an update to the Improving Health Care Response to Obstetric Hemorrhage, V2.0 Toolkit, funded by the California Department of Public Health in 2015; supported by Title V funds.