The MVC Coordinating Center wishes to express our deep appreciation for the thirty-four dedicated professionals who stepped forward to present at MVC’s first and second quarter 2025 virtual workgroups and spring collaborative-wide meeting. We know that members have many demands on their time, competing priorities, and requests from other Collaborative Quality Initiatives (CQIs) and professional organizations to present. By sharing their current data, innovative approaches to persistent challenges, best practices, and lessons learned with MVC members, these 34 presenters made important contributions to our shared goals to improve both access to and the quality of healthcare for all Michigan patients. We celebrate you for contributing in this high-value way. You DO make a difference!
Join the MVC Coordinating Center in giving these folks a well-deserved round of applause!
Cardiac Rehab Workgroup
- Steven Keteyian, PhD, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation & Preventive Cardiology, Henry Ford Health
- Greg Scharf, BS, ACSM-CEP, AACVPR-CCRP, Cardiopulmonary Rehab System Manager, MyMichigan Health
Preoperative Testing Workgroup
- Jennifer Bennett, MBA, BSN, RN, Lead Quality and Patient Safety Coordinator, Henry Ford Health
Sepsis Workgroup
- Diane Barton, MSN/MHA, RN, CPHQ, CPPS, Director of Organizational/Clinical Quality, Munson Medical Center
- Alex Callaway, MBA, CPHQ, CPPS, Director of Quality and Patient Safety, Munson Health System
- Jennifer Bentley, RN, BSN, Nursing Quality Coordinator, Munson Health System
- Stephanie Bowen, RN, BSN, Nursing Quality Coordinator, Munson Health System
- Amy Lorenz, RN, BAS, MPA, Lead QI Specialist II Patient Safety & Quality Department, Covenant Healthcare
Post-Discharge Follow-Up Workgroup
- Zachary Chapman, MHA, Executive Director, Oaklawn Medical Group
- Morgan Albright, BSN-RN, Director Case/Care Management Population Health, Oaklawn Hospital
Rural Health Workgroup
- Mary Wozniak, MPH, CHES, Program Manager, Health Systems Interventions, National Kidney Foundation
- Jill Oesterle, Director of Provider Solutions, Michigan Center for Rural Health, Michigan State University
Health in Action Workgroup
- Mary Nowlin, PA-C, Physician Assistant, Michigan Medicine
- Niki Farquhar, MSE, Project Management Lead for Delays in Care Progression Project Workstream, Michigan Medicine
- Heidi O’Neill, MS, Project Manager Lead for Continuous Improvement Division of Quality, Michigan Medicine
- Amanda Biskner, RN, Paramedic, CP-C, Community Paramedicine Coordinator, Tri-Hospital EMS, CP/MIH & File of L.I.F.E. Program
MVC’s spring collaborative-wide meeting:
Roundtables
- Vani Patterson, MPH, FNAP, Administrative Director, Michigan Center for Interprofessional Education, Michigan Medicine
- Chloe Miwa, MPH, Administrative Fellow, Michigan Medicine
- Cyndie Bates, Administrative Services for Access & Referral Management and Mobile Health Clinic, University of Michigan Health-Sparrow
- Whitney Soule, BSN, Nursing Quality Coordinator, Munson Healthcare Cadillac Hospital
- Keli K. DeVries, LMSW, Program Manager, MOQC
- Natalia Simon, MBA, MA, Senior Project Manager, MOQC
- Ashley Bowen, MS, RDN, CHC, Clinical Nutrition Services Manager, Michigan Medicine
- Amanda Saint Martin, Hospital Programs Manager, Michigan Center for Rural Health
- Larrea Young, MDes, Multimedia Design Project Manager, Human-Centered Design Project Manager, HBOM, MCT2D
- Danielle Fergin, LMSW-C, Manager of Integrated Behavioral Health, MyMichigan Medical Group
Poster Session
- Leslie Johnson, RN, Clinical Quality Improvement Lead, MIMiND
- Larrea Young, MDes, Multimedia Design Project Manager, Human-Centered Design Project Manager, HBOM, MCT2D
- Jennifer Bennett, MBA, BSN, RN, Lead Patient and Safety Coordinator, Ascension Macomb-Oakland, River District, and St. John Hospitals
- Dawn Johnson, BSN, RN, CCM-R, VP, ACO Performance and Growth, Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Catie Guarnaccia, MSN, RN, CPEN, Quality Initiatives and Operations Specialist, MEDIC
- Sam Kesterson, LMSW, Project Coordinator, MEDIC
- Emma Steppe, MPH, Project Manager, MSHIELD
- Bradley Lott, PhD, MPH, MS, Content Expert, Health Informatics and Social Care Integration, MSHIELD
- Keli DeVries, LMSW, Program Manager, MOQC
- Natalia Simon, MBA, MA, Senior Project Manager, MOQC
Attendees of workgroups and MVC’s spring collaborative-wide meeting appreciate presenters, too! Here are just a few of the many glowing survey responses MVC has received about presenters and their content in 2025.
As a reminder, past workgroups and virtual networking event recordings can be viewed on MVC’s YouTube channel, and presentation slides and materials from MVC’s spring 2025 collaborative-wide meeting can be viewed here.
Do you have valuable information to share?
Whether you are new to presenting or a seasoned pro, MVC’s Engagement team is here to support you every step of the way. From exploring topic ideas, to preparing information, to managing event logistics, our team makes the experience of presenting easy and comfortable. The P4P points you can earn as a presenter are a great benefit to your organization, too! For more information about presenting, contact the MVC’s Engagement team.
