b'Our Growing MOQC Team DR.JISHAPANICKER Dr. Jisha Panicker grew up in the Sultanate of Oman and received her dental degree from the Mar Baselios Dental College, Kerala, India. Upon graduation, she served as a clinical instructor in the Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics in her college. She graduated with a Masters Degree in Public Health from Wayne State School of Medicine and recently completed the Dental Postgraduate Program in Prosthodontics at University of Michigans School of Dentistry.Dr. Panickers experience includes work in clinical, academic, and other healthcare environments, including the Henry Ford Health System and Michigan Medicine. Be it addressing oral health disparities, educating on vaping prevention programs, or striving for equity in maternal and child health, Dr. Jisha believes in creating a culture of health by leveraging the power of collaboration, compassion and creativity.Dr. Panicker aims to help manifest MOQCs vision of offering a standard of excellence in patient-centered care by leveraging evidence based science and integrating healthcare practices. She lives with her husband and two children, ages 5 and 2. During her free time, she enjoys listening to podcasts on health, painting, baking and watching documentaries on Netflix.ERMILIPOTKA Ermili Potka earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Radiation Therapy from Wayne State University in 2012. He trained at Karmanos Cancer Institute, Henry Ford Hospital Detroit and West Bloomfield, and Oakwood Hospital and Sinai Grace Hospital. Ermili worked for St. Mary Mercy Hospital and St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor for over 15 years. At St. Mary Mercy Hospital, he worked in Radiology as a Radiology Assistant from 2005-2014 and a data abstractor for outcomes management from 2009-2010.In 2014, Ermili took a position with St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor as a Cancer Research Coordinator with the Michigan Cancer Research Consortium where he reviewed protocols, enrolled eligible patients in cancer clinical trials, and entered their data post enrollment in addition to uploading Radiation Therapy treatment plans and general imaging for review. He has abstracted for our team by proxy as a clinical data abstractor since 2016.Ermili looks forward to sharing his healthcare experience with MOQC to help our team accomplish their mission and goals. In his free time, Ermili likes playing basketball and softball and enjoys spending time with family.CINDYMICHALEK Cindy Michalek studied Business Management at Henry Ford Community College and earned a Bachelors in Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 2006. Her work experience in customer relations includes roles as a customer service representative, account manager, executive assistant, account executive, and supervisor at various companies within our Great Lakes State. Cindy began working at the University of Michigan Cancer Center as a Senior Administrative Assistant in 2011 where she provided support to both the Cancer Center Administration and MOQC.Cindy moved on to become Project Coordinator at the University of Michigan Pharmacy in 2013, which gave her the opportunity to work in Oncology with the Cancer Center Orders Team and a part of the Specialty Pharmacy Team. In 2016, Cindy then contracted with MOQC as a Lead Clinical Data Abstractor. She further contributed to MOQC with payroll management of our outside abstractors, became the contact for some of our practices, provided us with support at our Biannual Meetings, and was involved in multiple projects on quality initiatives with MOQC team members that included Oral Oncolytics, POEM and PROM Onc. This entailed data analysis and provided her expertise for new project developments between the Pharmacy and MOQC teams. Cindy is looking forward to growing the abstraction team and helping with recruitment of new practices for MOQC. In her free time, Cindy enjoys running, hiking, kayaking, snowmobiling, mountain biking, traveling, outdoor life, and spending time with Rocco, her Rhodesian Ridgeback.Team Continued on page 43'