Board of Directors

Trinity Health Of New England Corporation, Inc.

Regional Health Ministry • Board of Directors

Effective January '25

Most Rev. Juan Miguel Betancourt

Montez Carter, PharmD, FACHE

Garrett F. Casey, Jr.
Waterbury Market Chair

Tina Weathermax Grant, J.D.

Walter Harrison, PhD 
Vice-Chair 

Arosha Jayawickrema

John Kinney 
Hartford Market Chair

Wesley Knauft, M.D.

Karl J. Krapek

Nancy M. Kroeber

Sister Barbara A. Mullen, CSJ

JoAnn H. Price 
Chair

Michelle N. Theroux 
Springfield Market Chair

Johnson Memorial Hospital

• Olayemi, Ajayi-Lamanna, MD | Trustee
• Montez Carter, PharmD., FACHE, CEO | Ex-Officio
• Christine DePellegrini | Trustee
• Rev. Michael DeVito | Trustee
• Labin L. Duke, ThM | Trustee
• John P. Kearney | Treasurer
• Roy Kellerman, Jr., MD, Medical Staff President | Ex-Officio
• Younus F. Masih, MD | Trustee
• Crystal S. Neuhauser, MS | Trustee
• David J. O’Connor | Vice Chairman
• Alexandra Pifer | Trustee
• Robert Roose, MD, MPH, President | Ex-Officio
• Sean Stevens | Trustee
• Phil Tartsinis | Chairman
• Tywan Watkins | Trustee

Mercy Medical Center

• Yvonne Andersen | Trustee
• Bill Cargill | Trustee
• George Karras, M.D. | Trustee
• Sister Mary Geary Caritas, SP | Trustee
• Lisa McCarthy | Trustee
• Natasha McKay, M.D. | Trustee
• Robert Roose, M.D., MPH, President | Ex-Officio
• William Silvanic | Trustee
• Vikram Sondhi, M.D. | President of Mercy Medical Staff 
• Michelle Theroux | Chair

Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital

• Kwame Asante, M.D. | Director
• Valerie Powell-Stafford, MHSA, FACHE, President | Ex-Officio 
• Catherine Certo, PT | Director
• Sister Susan Cunningham, CJS | Director
• Regina Dyton, M.S.W. | Director
• Angelo DeFazio, RPH | Interim Chair
• Tony Giorgio, Ph.D | Secretary
• David Hyatt, M.B.A. | Director
• Steve Kunsman, Executive Director | Ex-Officio
• Andrew Mandell | Director
• Rev. Maurice Porter | Director 
• Carol Walter, R.N. | Director

Saint Francis Hospital

• Richard Alleyne, J.D. | Director
• Angelo Defazio, RPh | Vice Chair
• Sister Sally M. Hodgdon, CSJ | Director
• David J. Hopkins, MBA | Director
• Martin John, CPA | Director
• Edward T. Kelly IV, DMD | Director
• Ronald E. Kimmel, M.D. | Director 
• John J. Kinney, J.D. | Chair
• Valerie L. Powell-Stafford, MHSA, FACHE | President
• Lisa Sundean, Ph.D., MHA, RN | Director
• Sharon Tan, M.D. | Director

Saint Mary's Hospital

• Sandra G. Affenito, Ph.D. R.D., CD-N, FAND | Director
• Samuel F. Bowens III | Director
• Garrett F. Casey | Chairman
• Angela Chapman | Director
• Lesley M. Evans | Director
• Kim A. Kalajainen, FACHE, President | Ex-Officio
• Tamara Kaliszewski MSHS, PA | Director
• Sister Ann Kane, CSJ | Director
• Wesley Knauft, M.D. | Ex-Officio
• Donna O. Moore | Director
• Judge Maurice B. Mosely | Vice Chair
• Lynnette Letsky-Piombo | Director
• Pastor Kristopher S. Reese | Director
• Steven E. Schneider, M.D. | Director
• Father Anthony J. Smith | Director