06/01/2026
🎗️ This June, during Cancer Survivors Month, CDIQ Consulting is honored to celebrate Anna Rusinowski, our Chief Operating Officer (COO), patient advocate, and metastatic breast cancer survivor.
Anna has always understood what it means to be the underdog.
At 31, she was diagnosed with breast cancer just as she was beginning to see the rewards of the life and career she had worked so hard to build. In a matter of moments, everything changed.
💔 Her career was interrupted. Her future became uncertain. She was placed on disability and forced to fight from hospital rooms, infusion chairs, radiation tables, and the bathroom floor after years of ongoing chemotherapy treatments.
📸 Behind the professional photo are chapters most people never see.
Brain metastases. Spinal metastases. Spinal radiation. Long-term hormonal treatments. Oral chemotherapies. Blood work. Induced menopause. Disability. Fear. Loss. Rebuilding. Then rebuilding again.
But Anna refused to believe metastatic breast cancer had the final influence over her life.
👑 She became persistent. She became insistent. She learned to advocate for herself, ask harder questions, push for answers about her quality of life, and take an active role in her outcome.
🩺 In 2025, when her oncology team shared that the path forward is only experimental, Anna chose to become an active force in her own healing. She built a new care plan around her desired care, her body, her mind, her faith, and her will to live.
📈 Today, Anna brings that same strength into every part of her leadership.
🏥 As COO of CDIQ Consulting, Anna helps build strategic partnerships, support health system contracts, strengthen operations, and lead a company committed to accurate, human-centered Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) education and consulting connected to real patient outcomes.
🙌 She also serves as a patient advocate for metastatic breast cancer, using her lived experience to help ensure the patient voice is represented in how healthcare information is created, shared, and understood in hospitals nationwide.
Cancer survivorship should be celebrated. For many, it is not a single finish line. It can mean living with uncertainty, ongoing treatment, disability, financial strain, physical changes, emotional endurance, and the daily choice to keep building a meaningful life.
💛 That is why we celebrate Anna not only for what she has survived, but for what she continues to create.
🔥 For a long time, Anna thought cancer had made her weak.
Now, she knows it forged a different kind of strength.
It prepared her for what comes next.
🙌 This June, we honor Anna and every cancer survivor, patient, advocate, caregiver, and loved one who understands what it means to rebuild while still carrying the weight of the journey.
