MAC Executive Committee

A five-member Executive Committee  execute the directions of the MAC Board of Directors. This committee consists of the Chairman (Past President), the President, the Vice President, a Director of Internal Affairs, and a Director of Financial Affairs.

Dr. Donald Reno of Sterling Heights is the new MAC President. As President, Dr. Reno serves as the Chief Executive Officer and is responsible for the general and active management of the business of the organization. He is charged with seeing that all orders and resolutions of the MAC Board of Directors are put into effect. The President also presides over Executive Committee and general membership meetings.

For the MAC’s first two years after the merger, Dr. Reno served as Vice President/Director of External Affairs. Dr. Reno is a lifelong resident of Michigan who was raised in Harper Woods. A graduate of Life Chiropractic College, he has been in private practice since 1985.

Along with his duties for the MAC, Dr. Reno also serves on the Board of Directors of the Chiropractic Federal Credit Union and as the Michigan representative to the International Chiropractors Association. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the MCA Extraordinary Service Award (2006), the Michigan Chiropractic Council Distinguished Contribution Award (1992, 1993, 1994 & 1995), and the ICA Distinguished Fellow (2006).

Daniel Spencer, DC, Vice President

Dr. Dan Spencer of Hudson is the new MAC Vice President/Director of External Affairs. In this position, Dr. Spencer will act as the liaison between the Executive Committee and the Government Affairs and Legal Affairs committees and is directly responsible to coordinate such staff and consultants as are required to carry out these important committees’ functions.

Dr. Spencer joined as a student member in 1994 while at Palmer College. His father, Dr. Jamer Spencer, Sr., and his brother, Dr. James Spencer, Jr., are both DCs, and his sister, Kara, is currently a student at Palmer. Prior to entering Palmer, he received a BA in Biology from Adrian College. Dr. Spencer has served the MAC on the Board of Directors since its inception, and as a member of the Government Relations Committee. He was also a member of the Transition Executive Committee, the body charged with acting as a liaison between the MCS and MCA as the two organizations negotiated the historic merger.

Dr. Damian Palmer of Hesperia will serve as the MAC’s Director of Internal Affairs for 2009-2010. In this position, Dr. Palmer will act as the liaison between the Executive Committee and the Ethics, Professional Conduct & Peer Review Committee, as well as the Insurance Relations and Education & Programs committees. He will be directly responsible to coordinate such staff and consultants as required to carry out these committees’ functions.

Dr. Palmer is a third generation doctor of chiropractic whose father, Terry Palmer, graduated from Palmer in 1968 and whose grandfather, H.D. Palmer, knew B.J. Palmer and graduated in 1954. He is a 1995 graduate of Life University, where he was a member of both the Michigan Club and the Philosophy Club.

Along with his duties on the MAC Executive committee, is a member of both the ICA and WCA, and he practices in Hesperia and White Cloud. He was the recipient of the “MAC Rising Star Award” at the 2007 Fall Convention & Exhibition, as a member who is “stepping above and beyond for the chiropractic profession.”

Dr. Eric Hartman of Jenison will serve as Director of Financial Affairs, serving as liaison between the Executive Committee and the Audit & Budget and Membership Recruitment & Benefits committees. He is directly responsible to coordinate all staff and consultants whose chief purpose involves the financial affairs of the organization.

Dr. Hartman joined as a student member from Palmer in 2001. Prior to attending Palmer, he attended the University of Michigan and Grand Valley State, earning a BS in Social Science in 1998. He has previously served the MAC as a member of the Membership Recruitment & Benefits Committee and the Education & Programs Committee. Like Dr. Palmer, he was the recipient of the “MAC Rising Star Award” at the 2007 Fall Convention & Exhibition.

Dr. Kirk Steketee of Holland, immediate past president of the MAC, is the new MAC Chairman. As Chairman, he will preside over MAC Board of Directors meetings and act as the liaison between the Executive Committee and the Public Relations Committee.

Dr. Steketee served as the first MAC President, from 2007-1008. He is a former President of the Michigan Chiropractic Society who was instrumental in the negotiations between the three Michigan chiropractic organizations that formed the MCS in 1988, and he served as First Vice President of the new organization before becoming MCS President in 1990.

A 1975 graduate of Palmer College of Chiropractic, Dr. Steketee served as a combat medic in Vietnam before becoming a DC. He is a former winner of the MCS Legislative Leadership Award.