State level maternal mortality review committees are an important obstetric care and maternal public health function. Click here for a listing of maternal mortality review activity to date (April 2011).
Here are the presentations from the May 6th 2012 Maternal Mortality meeting and special interest group at the College's annual meeting in San Diego
Cynthia Berg, MD, MPH, Elizabeth Lawton, MHS. Maternal Deaths: What Are They and How Do We Find Them
Elizabeth Lawton, MHS - CA PAMR: Strategies for Case Finding
Barry Smith, MD - Small State MMR Committees - NH and VT
Susan Lemagie, MD - Small State - Alaska MMR Committee
Cynthia Berg, MD, MPH - Pregnancy Mortality Data Base: A Tool for Data Analysis
Elliott Main, MD - Causes of Maternal Death
David Lagrew, MD - Obstetric Hemorrhage: New Strategies, New Protocol
Debra Bingham, Dr PH, RN - Nurses Contribution: Identify, Track and Reduce Errors
Sarah Kilpatrick, MD - Illinois Efforts PPH
Maurice Druzin, MD - Preeclampsia Taskforce Project
Cynthia Chazotte, MD - Focus on Hypertension
Michael Paidas, MD - Deep Vein Thrombosis
Isaac Delke, MD - Pregnancy Related Deaths Due to Cardiomyopathy, Florida
Afshan Hameed, MD - Cardiovascular Disease and Maternal Mortality
Jill M Mhyre, MD - Maternal Cardiac Arrest in the US
Andreea Creagna, MD, PhD - Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality
Wendy Wilcox, MD, MPH - Black Women in the NYC Maternal Mortality Report 2001-2005
Elliott Main, MD - What Can/Should ACOG Do?
Photo’s from Maternal Mortality Meeting – May 5, 2012 San Diego
Here are the presentations from the Taylor International Symposium "Maternal Mortality" 5/3/11
Jeffrey King, MD - Maternal Mortality in the USA
Gwyneth Lewis, MD, MPH, OBE - Saving Mothers' Lives
Kyriakos Markides, PhD - Ethnic and Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality in the U.S.