Michigan Trauma Quality Improvement Program Program Leads
Mark Hemmila, M.D., Director
Dr. Hemmila is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Michigan in the Division of Acute Care Surgery. His clinical research interests are in trauma, burn and general surgery outcomes. In addition, he has a basic science research effort dedicated to trauma and burn research.
Dr. Hemmila is an original member of the Trauma Quality Improvement Program Working Group of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. He currently serves as a member of the ACS-TQIP Analytics Project Team. As program director of the Michigan Trauma Quality Improvement program, Dr. Hemmila has been responsible for all aspects of administration and oversight of the program.
Nancy Birkmeyer, Ph.D., Co-Director
Dr. Nancy J.O. Birkmeyer is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Michigan. She is the associate director of M-SCORE and the director of the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative. Her primary research interests are in the design and conduct of studies measuring surgical quality, evaluating treatments and improving care in surgery.
Judy Mikhail, R.N., M.S.N., M.B.A., Project Manager
Judy Mikhail has more than 28 years of progressive trauma nursing experience, most recently as the administrator for Trauma, Neuro and Bariatric Services at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan. She began her nursing career in the Burn Unit at Hurley, became surgical intensive care unit staff nurse at M.D. Anderson and Hermann Memorial Hospitals in Houston, and then returned to Hurley as critical care clinical nurse specialist, then as trauma program manager and trauma administrator. Judy earned a diploma in nursing from Hurley Medical Center School of Nursing, a bachelor's degree in nursing from the University of Michigan, master's degree in nursing from the University of Texas-Houston and a master's degree in business administration from Colorado State University.
She has been actively involved in trauma system development in Michigan since its inception, having been appointed by two successive governors to serve on state trauma committees. Currently, Judy serves as the co-chairwoman of the State of Michigan Trauma Advisory Committee and as treasurer of the Michigan Trauma Coalition.
Jill Jakubus, P.A.-C., M.S., QI Coordinator
Jakubus is a physician assistant in the Department of Surgery at the University of Michigan. She cares for patients on the Trauma and Burn Surgery service within the Division of Acute Care Surgery. She has taken the ACS-NSQIP Surgical Clinical Reviewer training course and will serve as the overall quality improvement coordinator for MTQIP.
About the Coordinating Center
The University of Michigan serves as the coordinating center and is responsible for collecting and analyzing comprehensive clinical data from the participating hospitals. It uses these analyses to examine practice patterns, to generate new knowledge linking processes of care to outcomes, and to identify best practices and opportunities for quality and efficiency improvement. The center further supports participants in establishing quality improvement goals and assists them in implementing best practices.
