Jane Ellis

Dr. Jane Ellis, Associate Professor in the Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Emory University School of Medicine, is a Georgia native and grew up in the Brunswick/St. Simons area.  She attended Georgia Tech where she received her BS, MS and PhD.   She then attended medical school at Emory University where she received her MD, and subsequently pursued her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Following completion of her residency, she pursued a fellowship in Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Emory. She joined the faculty at Emory in 2005 and has been an attending physician on the Obstetrics service at Grady Memorial Hospital since that time.  She is actively involved in medical student, resident and fellow training and teaching at Grady and has won both teaching and research awards. She is the medical director for the Emory Regional Perinatal Center at the Grady Health System, which is the largest Regional Perinatal Center in the state and is responsible for the quality of obstetric care provided in the 40 county North Georgia regional area. Dr. Ellis is the OB Medical director for the M and I Grant, which is a grant funded by both federal and state money to ensure quality care for indigent pregnant women at Grady and the other regional perinatal centers.  She is a founding and current member of Georgia’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee and is actively involved in the implementation of local, regional, and state patient safety and quality initiatives such as the AIM patient safety bundles, the Georgia Perinatal Quality Collaborative and the Levels of Care initiative (House Bill 909). She is also active at the national level in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists committee on Maternal Mortality.  Dr. Ellis has particular interests in identifying causes of and reducing maternal mortality, patient safety and quality initiatives, and maternal/fetal outcomes in pregnant patients with medical comorbidities.