Mike is one of the first members of the Patient and Caregiver Oncology Quality Council (POQC), which was formed several years ago to provide the patient and caregiver voice for the Michigan Oncology Quality Consortium. MOQC was launched in 2009 in partnership with Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan to design and implement changes to improve cancer care across the state.

He is a member of the MOQC Steering Committee, the Measures Committee and the PROMOnc Steering Committee, a national effort that MOQC is partnering with to develop, test and improve patient-reported outcomes.

Mike also has been a member of the Patient and Family Advisory Committee for the Rogel Cancer Center at Michigan Medicine for the past six years. He retired in 2016 after 29 years at Michigan Medicine, primarily as director of PR and Marketing as well as a manager in strategic planning.

He was diagnosed with bladder cancer nine years ago and remains cancer-free.