Your MPCA Grants, Programs & Strategic Efforts Team
Prashanti Boinapally, MD, MSc, is a Data Analytics and Evaluation Manager at the Michigan Primary Care Association.Prashanti received her master’s degree in epidemiology at Michigan State University, where she previously worked. She also was employed at MDHHS, MPRO and Trinity Health before she began her MPCA tenure in May 2018.
Prashanti grew up in India and has called Lansing home for the last 22 years.
She can be reached here (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Integrated Health Program Manager Jackie Chandler, MS, joined the MPCA in January 2019. In her current MPCA role,
Jackie provides technical assistance with the MI Care Team, psychiatric Collaborative Care Model (CoCM), the TRANSFORM PTSD Study, HIV prevention, and migrant, LGBTQ+, and homeless health services.
For Jackie, advocacy, prevention, and health equity in all policies resonates deep in both her personal life and in working within the health center movement. She is a master’s level community health educator by discipline, serving roles as a memory care manager in assisted living, an AmeriCorps member at Cherry Health, and an outreach coordinator for the MDHHS immunizations program.
Jackie spends her downtime cooking, spending time with loved ones, and enjoying to keep house plants alive and well. Drop her a note here (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Misty Davis is an oral health program manager for MPCA, providing support and technical assistance to our dental teams and work programs aimed at advancing their ability to deliver high quality care and improve access to oral healthcare. She started here in November 2020, and, yes, she wants you to know that she is a member of the “mass exodus of clinicians during COVID” club.
Misty entered the dental field as an on-the-job trained dental assistant at the age of 21. She had no college education, no intention of pursuing a degree, and hadn’t been to the dentist in 10 years when she was offered the job. But she quickly fell in love with the field and the notion of disease prevention. She’s enjoyed a 14-year career as a dental hygienist. MPCA is Misty’s first non-clinical job as an RDH, and she is enjoying this career path so much that she is currently pursuing a MPH at MSU.
A fun fact about Misty is that she is an experienced beekeeper!
She can be reached here (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Amber Desgranges, MPH, CED, MPCA’s Chief Program Officer, was educated at Grand Valley State University and
earned her master’s degree in public health from Liberty University.
Prior to MPCA, Amber spent some time working at Ingham Community Health Centers as both a community health worker and as an executive assistant. However, her passion for community health and the need for health centers began with employment in a hospital emergency department in Grand Rapids, where she saw the overuse of emergency departments for everyday primary care services.
Amber has been with MPCA since May 2016 and in her current role she oversees a number of different grant programs and strategic efforts
Amber and her husband share three small children and the family is obsessed with all things Disney.
Amber is available by phone or email (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Debbie Edokpolo is the MPCA Director of Health Equity & Social Justice. She received her master’s degree in social work from Michigan State University.
Debbie retired from the Ingham County Health Department after 32 years in January 2021. A month later, she started with MPCA in her newly-created role. (She notes that she’s not doing very well at retirement, because she loves her work so much!)
She enjoys reading, people watching and taking in movies from different countries. She and her wonderful husband have six beautiful granddaughters.
Debbie believe in the goodness of human beings.
Kelly Feenstra, a member of the MPCA staff since July 2019, works as an integrated health program specialist focusing
on Substance Use Disorder (SUD). Kelly helps coordinate and facilitate trainings, develop and maintain the new SUD SharePoint site, and assists with any health center needs that may arise.
Kelly matriculated through Calvin University where she studied public health. MPCA was her first job after graduating college in 2018. A year later, she started a great learning experience as a coordinator before working her way up to a specialist position focusing on SUD.
A couple fun facts about Kelly: during her time in college, she spent a month in China learning about traditional Chinese medicine and traveling around the country. Then last year, she bought a house and got engaged within a few months–two important life events.
She can be reached here (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Janelle Murray, MPH, is our Associate Director of Integrated Health, starting at MPCA in February 2020.
In her current role at MPCA, Janelle is focused on substance use disorder services, behavioral health, and integrated health initiatives utilizing innovative program development and implementation, project management along with training and technical assistance
Janelle received her bachelor of science degree from Central Michigan University, along with her master’s in public health from Capella University.
For the past 12 years, she has worked in health systems and substance use disorder services throughout Michigan. In 2021, Janelle completed a program at the University of Michigan becoming certified in integrated behavioral health and primary care.
She is an ACE’s Master trainer for the state of Michigan, certified prevention specialist and Naloxone/Narcan trainer. Janelle’s portfolio of substance use disorder (prevention, treatment, and recovery), trauma informed care, adverse childhood experiences, education, pharmacological and holistic care gives her a diverse background and expertise.
Janelle started volunteering for hospice services when she was 18 as a patient and family support volunteer that provided companionship to both patients and family caregivers.
Another fun fact is that she ran a half-marathon once. (“Probably the only time I will in my life. It was hard work, needed a lot of self-discipline,” she says.) But she felt the experience was very rewarding to have finished.
Janelle can be reached here (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Lindsay Sailor is an integrated health program manager who came to the MPCA six years ago after more than a decade working in health centers as a quality improvement coordinator.
Lindsay’s primary role is to manage the Midwest Network for Oral Health Integration (MNOHI) HRSA grant, a five-year, four-state collaborative funded by HRSA. In addition to her work on MNOHI, Lindsay also provides technical assistance, performance improvement, and strategic planning for oral health integration, access, and optimization to Michigan’s community health centers.
Lindsay holds a bachelor’s degree in community health education from Western Michigan University and is currently working on her master’s in public health with dental emphasis at A.T. Still University.
In her spare time, Lindsay enjoys spending time outdoors with family and viewing wildlife, reading novels and rooting for Michigan Wolverine sports.
A fun fact about Lindsay is her desire to visit every national park and state in the nation.
Lindsay is available to chat or email (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Theresa Quaderer, M.A., joined the MPCA in May 2020 and is our Integrated Health Program Manager. She can be reached here (please sign-in with your credentials to view this private content).
Theresa received a master of arts degree in health and risk communication from Michigan State University.
She worked in maternal and child health as a public health consultant for the Ohio Department of Health in Columbus prior to MPCA.
Something you may not know about Theresa is that her go-to karaoke song is Fergalicious and that she’s attempting to read 25 books by the end of 2022.(We think she’s an aspiring singer and an avid bookworm!)