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MCN Advisory Board

 

Deb Bach
MPRO
Email:
dbach@mpro.org
Clark Ballard
Senior Vice President, Member Services - Michigan Health and Hospital Association
Email: cballard@mha.org
Tom Bissonnette
Representing MNA

Email: Tom.Bissonette@minurses.org
Janet Bodell, SFO, RN, MSH
Representing MOA
Email: janetsfo@sbcglobal.net
Margaret Bowles
Representing WMNAC

Email: jmbowles@grcc.edu
Melanie Brim
Director, BHP, MDCH
Email: mbbrim@michigan.gov
Ms. Brim is the Director of the Bureau of Health Professions, Michigan Department of Community Health.
Margie Clark
Nursing Career Dept Chair LCC
Email: mclark@lcc.edu
Ms. Clark is the Nursing Careers Department Chair at Lansing Community College. She has been appointed by Governor Granholm to a four-year term on the Michigan Board of Nursing.
Kathy Coburn, RN, MBA
Representing MONE
Email: coburnk@trinity-health.org
Steve Creamer, MA
Bureau of Health Professions
Email: creamers1@michigan.gov
Vernice Davis-Anthony
GDAHC
Email: vdanthony@gdahc.org
Kathleen Kessler
MLN President
Email: kathleen.kessler@hc.msu.edu
Jeanette Klemczak
Chief Nurse Executive
Email: klemczakj@michigan.gov
Ms. Klemczak is Michigan's Chief Nurse Executive. Michigan's Chief Nursing Executive serves Michigan citizens by providing professional nursing leadership, expertise and coordination in nursing workforce and health policy development.
Barbara Medvec
Chief Nurse Exec. - Oakwood
Email: medvecb@oakwood.org
Ms. Medvec is the Chief Nurse Executive for Oakwood Healthcare, Inc in Dearborn.
Sue Meeker
Representing RN-AIM
Email:
suemeeker@comcast.net  
Juanita S. Parry
Univ. of Michigan Health
Email: jsparry@umich.edu
Ms. Parry is the Manager of Nurse Recruitment and Retention for the University of Michigan Health System.

Jane Powers
Sr. Consult., PSC, Inc.

Email: jpowers@pscinc.com

Peter Pratt, Ph.D.
Vice President, PSC, Inc

Email: ppratt@pscinc.com

MaryAnne Rizza
Representing Nursing Recruiters

Email: mrizza@mcrmc.org  

Laura Schmidt, MSN, RN
Director, Nsg. Prog & All. Hlt
Email: lschmidt@nmc.edu
Ms. Schmidt is the Director of Nursing Programs and Allied Health at Northwestern Michigan College in Traverse City.  She represents Michigan Council of Nursing Education Administrators (MCNEA) on the Advisory Board
Kathleen Walsh, RN
Oaklawn Hospital
Email: kwalsh@oaklawnhospital.com
DeAnna Warren
Michigan Primary Care Association

Email: DWarren@mpca.net

Representative Lesia Liss
Michigan House of Representatives

Linda Zoeller, PhD, FNP, BC 
Western Michigan University
Representing MACN
Email:linda.zoeller@wmich.edu

The MCN Staff


Carole Stacy, MSN, MA, RN
Director
Email: cstacy@mhc.org
Carole has been involved many areas of nursing. She taught for twenty-three years at Kalamazoo Valley Community College in Kalamazoo, MI in a nursing LPN/RN program. She also taught as adjunct nursing faculty at Lake Michigan College (community college) and Kellogg Community College. She was the State Director of Curriculum for Career and Technical Education for the State of Michigan for 15 years. She is currently the Director Michigan Center for Nursing and the Executive Director for the National Consortium on Health Science and Technology Education.
Anne Wilson
Marketing Director
Email: wilson@mhc.org
Anne Rosewarne
President, Mich Health Council
Email: anne@mhc.org