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Elliott K Main¹, M Kathryn Menard

¹Dr. Main is from the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, Stanford University, and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California; e-mail: MainE@sutterhealth.org. Dr. Menard is a Past President (2012) of the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine, and a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina;

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