Chief Executive Officer
Preeclampsia Foundation
Eleni Tsigas is the Chief Executive Officer of the Preeclampsia Foundation, the patient advocacy organization for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy headquartered in the US with an affiliate organization in Canada. As a preeclampsia survivor, she is a relentless champion for the improvement of patient and provider maternal health education and practices, for the catalytic role that patients partners can play to advance the science and status of maternal-infant health, and for realizing progress by building partnerships to improve pregnancy outcomes.
Examples of this include her service on the Executive Council of MoMMA’s Voices, a coalition of patient advocacy organizations driven to lower maternal mortality and morbidity in the US, organized by the Preeclampsia Foundation, serving as a voting member on the Council on Patient Safety in Women’s Healthcare, as a Supporting Partner to the AIM Program, and as the leading champion for the Preventing Maternal Deaths Act, signed into law in December 2018.
She is frequently engaged as an expert representing the consumer perspective on preeclampsia at national and international meetings for academia, industry, and professional societies. She serves as a subject expert for the World Health Organization (WHO), PRECISE, IMPROVeD and PRE-EMPT Technical Advisory Groups, the Hypertension in Pregnancy and the Pregnancy and Heart Disease Task Forces for the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and several state Perinatal Quality Collaboratives’ preeclampsia task forces (e.g., California, Florida, Texas). Eleni is the Principal Investigator for The Preeclampsia Registry, an active database of 6,000+ participants contributing to numerous research studies, and also served as a co-investigator in the Heart Health for Moms study (HH4M, CER-1306-02603). She survived severe preeclampsia twice, though her firstborn daughter did not.