People
The Michigan Sickle Cell Data Collection team is comprised of staff from the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center at the University of Michigan and the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services (MDHHS). CHEAR staff are responsible for data acquisition, data linkage, and analysis; MDHHS staff are responsible for the multidisciplinary team, communications plan, and providing data. Other stakeholder groups include Students & Trainees and Funders & Partners.
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MiSCDC Multidisciplinary Team
The MiSCDC program engages a variety of stakeholders to help identify priorities, assuring that the information collected and generated by MiSCDC remains useful. Our partners can then use the data to help improve policy, healthcare practices, and treatments for people with SCD.
The MiSCDC Multidisciplinary Team has representatives from each of these areas of expertise:
People living with sickle cell disease
Families of people living with sickle cell disease
Community-Based Organizations
Public Health staff at MDHHS
Health information technology
Clinical care of children and adults with sickle cell diesease
Chronic disease data collection
Our multi-stakeholder collaborations have led to the formation of a Multidisciplinary Team. The mission of the MiSCDC Multidisciplinary Team is to:
Build and maintain relationships
Review MiSCDC data goals
Develop plans for utilization of MiSCDC findings
The Multidisciplinary Team is kept up to date with all things MiSCDC via biannual meetings and newsletters. To learn more and get connected contact us.
MiSCDC Team
CHEAR Center
Michaella Baker
MSW
Project Manager
Lisa Cohn
MS
Statistician
Krista Latta
MPH
Statistician
Hannah Peng
MPH
Statistician
Missy Plegue
MA
Statistician
Sara Schultz
MPS
Health Communicator
MDHHS
Dominic Smith
MSA
Co-Investigator
Mary Robinson
RN, BSN
Multidisciplinary Team Lead
Isabel Hurden
MPH
Epidemiologist Newborn Screening
Students and Trainees
Joanne Constantin
PhD, MPH
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jennylee Swallow
MS
Doctoral Student
Ruoxi Hao
BS
Graduate Research Assistant
Samyuktha (Simi) Neeluru
BS
Research Assistant
Erica Griffin
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Zara Bedella
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Sickle Cell Community Based Organizations
Participating Clinics
Bronson Health Group
Children’s Hospital of Michigan
Detroit Medical Center
Henry Ford Health
Hurley Health Center
Michigan Medicine
University of Michigan Health-Sparrow
Other Sickle Cell Data Collection Programs
- Alabama
- Arizona
- California
- Colorado
- Florida
- Georgia
- Indiana
- Minnesota
- Missouri
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Rhode Island
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Virginia
- Wisconsin