Leadership
Meet the 2024-2025 MSMA Officers!
For contact information for any member of the Board of Directors, please visit our Contact page.
President - Kathy Stuut, CMA (AAMA)
I have been a Certified Medical Assistant-Administrative for over 30 years. I have worked in OB-GYN, Cardiology, and Rheumatology, mainly as an office manager. I have served on the MSMA Board for many years as an officer, committee chair, or committee member. I am a Past President of this organization and currently President of the Southwest Chapter.
President Elect - Vacant
Vice President - Tracie Hardy, CMA (AAMA)
Hello! I am Tracie Hardy, CMA (AAMA) your Vice President. I have been involved with MSMA and the Northwest Chapter of MSMA since 2000. I have also served on the MSMA Board for over 19 years as a member of the history, journal, bylaws, budget and Finance, insurance advisory, documents review, ways and means and conference liaison committees.
I have served as chair of the following committees: Journal, Fall Conference, Spring Convention, Winter Conference, Insurance Advisory and Ways and Means. I have also served as an officer of MSMA as Vice Speaker, Speaker of the House, Secretary and Vice President.
In my chapter I have served as President, President Elect, Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretary, Public Relations Chair, Publication Chair, Membership Chair and has volunteered with various community outreach programs.
Married for 31 years and have two daughters. I work full time as a medical billing manager and in my spare time I enjoy reading and crafts.
Secretary - Cheryl Bouschor, CMA (AAMA)
Hello! I am Cheryl Bouschor, and I am your MSMA secretary this year. I have been a CMA (AAMA) for over 30 years and have been employed in my current position as a biller/coding abstractor since 1998; although my office recently transitioned to a facility owned practice. I have been married for 31 years and have twin sons.
I have served as MSMA secretary several times, along with Vice Speaker, Speaker of the House and 2017-18 MSMA President. I started out in this organization as Journal Editor and helped MSMA achieve four AAMA Excel Awards in Publishing over a period of five years. I have served on several committees in the capacity of both member and chair. I have also served in the Northwest Michigan chapter since its inception and have served in every officer position, including president several times.
I am proud to be part of this organization where we are striving to provide quality education, support, and recognition for medical assistants so that medical assistants across Michigan can provide excellent quality health care to patients. I invite and encourage you to join us through attending face-to-face conferences, serving on a committee and/ or attending our board meetings in the gallery to discover what your society is working on and learning how we operate. Being active in face-to-face conferences and meetings is so important to making and building connections, friends, and celebrating achievements in your career!
Treasurer - Jill Vroegindewey, CMA (AAMA)
I am Jill Vroegindewey, CMA (AAMA), the newly appointed MSMA Treasurer for 2024-2025. I have been a member of MSMA since 1974 and a Certified Medical Assistant since 1978. I am currently a member of the Southwest Chapter of Medical Assistants.
My career in the medical field began in 1973 when I was hired as a medical biller by a radiology group. During my thirty-one years with this group, I also served as Controller, Director of the Business Ofc., Director of Compensation and Benefits and Practice Liaison. When the group transitioned to joint venturing with a hospital healthcare group, I spent the latter years of my career as a Physician Liaison in the hospital’s Radiology and Business Development departments. I have also taught medical terminology at our local community college.
I have served as the MSMA Treasurer for MSMA, Vice Speaker, and Chair of various committees at the state level and twice as a speaker at AAMA Annual Conferences. At the chapter level, I served in every officer position except Secretary (that is not my thing)!
I have made lifelong friends over decades in this organization. I look forward to utilizing my accounting skills and updating our financial records with software to provide the Board of Directors and members with timely reporting and useful financial information for planning purposes.
Speaker of the House - Mistie Atkins, CMA (AAMA)
Hi, I’m Mistie Atkins and I have been a CMA since 2000. I am a practice manager at Munson Family Practice Residency program. I have been with Munson Healthcare since 2000. I am very passionate about Medical Assisting profession. I do a lot of education in our organization regarding Medical Assistant credentials and scope of practice. I am Secretary for the Northwest Chapter. I’ve been involved with MSMA for over 15 years and have been on various committees as a chair and as a member.
Vice Speaker of the House -Nicole Burris, CMA (AAMA)
I am Nicole Burris, CMA(AAMA) and I am your Vice Speaker of the House for the 2024-2025 year, I want to be “your voice”.
I have been on the Board of Directors for the last 5 years as the Chair of the Conference Liaison committee. Before that I was in Maryland where I was the Vice President for the state. I have been on other committees in Michigan as well. I was the Chair for Ways and Means for 2 years, as well as a committee member for Budget and Finance, Bylaws, Minutes Review, and Awards. I am the Chair for the Awards committee this year also.
I am currently working as a Care Team Coordinator for a Case Management organization for the elderly. I have worked in many different healthcare settings and in each one I have learned something and contributed something. I want to continue to contribute to MSMA with my ideas, your ideas and my voice. I look forward to continuing my task of promoting our career of Medical Assisting and opening up the eyes of others on what we are all about.
Immediate Past President - Christa Smith, CMA (AAMA)
My name is Christa Smith and I am your Immediate Past President. Other officer positions I have held are President, Immediate Past President, and Speaker of the House. I have been a member of MSMA for 26 years, and part of the BOD for at least 12 years. I was first certified in 1994, working in a Neurosurgery office. Since then, I have changed offices and work in a Vascular and General Surgery practice as the Team Leader for the Medical Assistant Department and Surgery Scheduler. I have a deep passion for this organization. The learning, teaching, mentoring and fellowship we bring every 3-4 months is OUTSTANDING! I have also found some of my most cherished, life-long best friends. On a more personal note, I have been married for 19 years to Dan and we have two children, Gabe 17 and Matthew 9. These are my loves! Every day there is something new with these boys.