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Executive Committee

CPQCC Executive Committee consists of a network of stakeholders consisting of public and private, obstetric and neonatal providers, health care purchasers, public health professionals and private sector health industry specialists. The Executive Commitee meets regularly to debate, review, prioritize and plan the direction of the Collaborative.

The preliminary planning group includes: CDPH-MCAH, California Children's Services (CCS), California Office of Vital Records (OVR), California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD), Regional Perinatal Programs of California (RPPC), Health Insurance Plans of California, American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), California Association of Neonatologists (CAN), Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH), David and Lucile Packard Foundation and the Vermont Oxford Network (VON). 


Dilip R. Bhatt, MDNeonatologist, Kaiser Permanente, Fontana
  
David Braun, MDRegional Physician Coordinator, Kaiser Permanente
  
Steven Goldman, MDChief, Newborn Services, CPMC
  
Jeffrey Gould, MD, MPHPrincipal Investigator, CPQCC
  
Balaji Govindaswani, MDChief, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center
  
Andrew Hopper, MDNeonatologist, LLUMC
  
Jeffrey Horbar, MDChief Executive and Scientific Officer, VON
  
Leslie KowalewskiAssociate State Director March of Dimes
  
Sudeep Kukreja, MDNeonatologist, Children’s Hospital of Orange County
  
Michael Kuzniewicz, MD, MPHDirector, Perinatal Research Unit KP
  
Elliott Main, MDPI CMQCC, Chairman, OB & GYN at CPMC
  
Joseph P. Parker, PhD

Manager, Healthcare Outcomes Center, OSHPD

  
Richard Powers, MD

Regional Director of QI, Pacific Region;  Practice Medical Director of San Jose Mednax Neonatology Group

  
Joseph Schulman, MD MS Director, NICU QMI CCS CDPH
  
Paul Sharek, MD, MPH, FAAPDirector of Quality, CPQCC, Medical Director LPCH
  
Terri Slagle, MDAAP District IX, N. CA Rep Neonatology CPMC
  
David K. Stevenson, MDCo-PI, CPQCC; Vice Dean, Stanford University SOM