Get to Know Your MPCA: Data Services Team

The Michigan Primary Care Association is proud to have a talented, experienced staff to advocate for and support our member health centers which provide their communities with excellent care and services. We are excited to introduce each of our teams so that you can get to know them a little better, so next up is the data services team.

Clinical Data Manager Cheryl Gildner started at the MPCA in April 2017. Cheryl has almost exclusively worked with centers to implement and use Azara and data in general. The data team educates health center staff on how to use and maintain their population health tool as well as how to create data views, tell stories through data and understand what the data is telling them about their patient populations and overall operations.

Just prior to coming to the MPCA, she worked in a health center for nine years doing operations, quality improvement and compliance.

A two-time graduate of Central Michigan University, Cheryl used to race motorcycles on the ice and ridden motocross and proclaims to have “driven just about everything out there with an engine in it.

Beth Holtz, BSN, RN, has been with the MPCA since May 2020, working as a clinical dataspecialist.

Beth owns a bachelor’s degree in nursing and earned her master’s in healthcare administration.

Previously, Beth was employed at Bronson Hospital in the pediatric unit and in the quality and risk department at the West Michigan Cancer Center in Kalamazoo.

Beth started playing pickle ball last spring and really enjoys the sport.

Rob Pazdan, MBA, is the Chief Information Officer and started at the MPCA in September 2000–the longest-tenured employee at the Association.

Rob graduated from Michigan State University and earned a master’s in business administration from Wayne State University almost 15 years later. Then seven years after that, he received a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certificate.

Rob, who is a fan of the Detroit sports scene, has played ice hockey since he was 7 years old and still competes two to three times a week. He tended goal for the last 30 years before recently returning to forward again for the first time since a 9-year-old.

Ashley Wozniak, BSN, RN-BC, has been a clinical data specialist at MCPA since July 2018. She is tasked with Uniform Data System (UDS), an annual reporting system that provides standardized information about the performance and operation of health centers delivering health care services to underserved communities and vulnerable populations. She also focuses on hypertension and diabetes grants, and Substance Use Disorder awards.

Ashley graduated from the University of Michigan School of Nursing, worked at U of M Hospital, Rush University Hospital and Sparrow before coming to the MPCA.

Ashley loves to spend her free time baking.