Deirdre J. Lyell is a co-chair and co-principal investigator of the California Maternal and Perinatal Quality Care Collaboratives (CMQCC/CPQCC), and the Dunlevie Endowed Professor of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Stanford Medicine. She brings more than 25 years of clinical experience in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology. She has conducted impactful, practice-changing research in clinical obstetrics, and on racial and ethnic inequities in obstetrics, anemia, severe maternal morbidity, placenta accreta spectrum and prematurity prevention. Dr. Lyell has led quality improvement (QI) initiatives locally and at scale, working with community members, people with lived experience and providers to ensure that everyone receives the same quality of care.
At Stanford Medicine, Dr. Lyell serves as director of perinatal epidemiology and population health in the Dunlevie Maternal-Fetal Medicine Center; associate director of the division of maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics; medical director of labor and delivery; director of the Program in Placental Disorders; and project lead for the National Institutes of Health-funded Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence, PReventing Inequities in Hemorrhage-related Severe Maternal morbidity (PRIHSM).
Nationally, Dr. Lyell is a founding board member of the Pan-American Society for Placenta Accreta Spectrum; a board member of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine Foundation; an examiner for the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology’s Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialty board; and has also served as a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health. She holds a BAS in biology and history from Stanford University and an MD from George Washington University. She completed a medical residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, and a fellowship in maternal-fetal medicine at Stanford Medicine.