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.
Daniel Spencer, DC, President
Dr. Dan Spencer of Hudson is the new MAC President. As
President, Dr. Spencer 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 past two years, Dr. Spencer has served as Vice President/Director
of External Affairs. He joined as a student member in 1994, while at Palmer
College. His father, Dr. James 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.
Dennis Whitford, DC, Vice President
 Dr. Dennis Whitford of Mt. Pleasant is the new MAC Vice
President and Director of External Affairs. In this position, Dr. Whitford
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. Whitford also serves as the MAC Liaison to Michigan’s
Workers’ Compensation System. He sits on the Workers’ Compensation Health
Care Services Advisory Committee. This important committee is responsible
for reviewing rules and regulations pertaining to health care benefits and
services under Michigan’s workers’ compensation system. He serves as one of
the committee’s five members from the provider community.
A graduate of Logan College of Chiropractic, Dr. Whitford
began practicing in Michigan in 1993.
 Damian
Palmer, DC, Director of Internal Affairs
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, DC, Director of Financial Affairs
 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.
Donald Reno, DC, Chairman
Dr. Donald Reno of Sterling Heights 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.
At the Fall 2010 Convention & Exhibition, Dr. Reno was named
MAC "Chiropractor of the Year." For the MAC’s first two years after the
merger, Dr. Reno served as Vice President/Director of External Affairs. He
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).
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