MeHAF Board of Trustees

DICK MARSTON, BOARD CHAIR

Mr. Marston has recently retired from his position as Manager, Human Resources for The Madawaska, Maine operation of Fraser Papers Inc. His experience in human resources and organizational development spans 30 years. He is a graduate of Northeastern University with a BS in Business Administration, majoring in Employee Relations. He served in the U.S. Army as a Radio Systems Officer with assignments in Germany and Vietnam. He was elected to two terms on the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Madawaska, and is currently serving as a member of the board of directors for The Aroostook Mental Healt...

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Dick Marston, Board Chair
Retired, Human Resources Manager, Fraser Papers, Inc.

KEVIN GILDART, VICE CHAIR

Kevin P. Gildart serves as the Vice President of Human Resources at Bath Iron Works, a General Dynamics Company. A graduate of the Maine Maritime Academy, he has worked at the shipyard for 35 years in a variety of senior management roles. He currently serves on the Board for Maine Health Access Foundation, Chair of the Board of Advisors at Cheverus High School, and is Chairman of the Board for the Maine State Chamber of Commerce. He is also a graduate of the Leadership Maine Alpha class.

Kevin Gildart, Vice Chair
Vice President, Human Resources, Bath Iron Works

CHERYL RUST

Prior to her work in the food service industry, Ms. Rust was a soft goods divisional manager in Massachusetts with Stop and Shop Companies, the Bradlees Division. Since 1977 she has owned and operated Le Garage, a full service restaurant in Wiscasset. Le Garage seats approximately 175 people and depending upon the season employs between 35 and 55 people.

By its very nature, her work in the restaurant keeps her engaged with a substantial demographic cross section of the community through both employee and customer bases. That involvement helped create an intimate awareness of many of...

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Cheryl Rust
Board Secretary, Owner, LeGarage Restaurant

WARREN KESSLER

Warren Kessler recently retired as President of MaineGeneral Health, a nonprofit primary care provider (acute care, behavioral health care, rehabilitation and long term care, physician practices, among other services) based principally in Augusta and Waterville, Maine. He now has an active consulting practice in the field of health care. Mr. Kessler is the former, founding President of Maine Health Access Foundation’s Board of Trustees.

Warren Kessler
Board Treasurer, Retired, President, MaineGeneral Health

ANNE JOHNSON COLE BROWN, MD

Dr. Anne Brown, a Maine native, is an internist at Community Clinical Services in Lewiston Maine. After graduating from Bates College, Dr. Brown received her medical degree from the UVM College of Medicine in 1992. She completed her internship and residency at the Ochsner Medical Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a fellow in the American College of Physicians. Dr. Brown lives in Turner with her daughter Molly and husband, Rick.

Anne Johnson Cole Brown, MD
Internist, Community Clinical Services

WESLEY DAVIDSON, MS, CSW_IP

Mr. Davidson is currently Chief Executive Officer of Aroostook Mental Health Services, Inc. (dba AMHC). His professional experience spans 36 years of active involvement in the development and delivery of community based mental health and substance abuse services in rural settings. Mr. Davidson is currently an active member in the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership (IIMHL), Mental Health Corporations of America (MHCA), and the Mental Health Risk Retention Group, Inc. (MHRRG) at the national level; and a number of state organizations such as the Maine Association of Mental Hea...

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Wesley Davidson, MS, CSW_IP
CEO, Aroostook Mental Health Center

LAURIE EDDY, MSN, FNP, NP-C

Laurie Eddy currently serves as the Executive Director of Eastern Maine AIDS Network (EMAN) which is devoted to the case management of people with HIV and AIDS. EMAN also offers HIV prevention education, outreach, support groups and harm reduction for HIV/HEP C through needle exchange.

Laurie obtained her nursing degree from the Eastern Maine Medical Center School of Nursing in 1975. She was certified through the University of Pennsylvania as an OB-Gyn Nurse Practitioner in 1982, and has obtained both her BSN and MSN degree from the University of Maine. Ms. Eddy has served on numerous...

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Laurie Eddy, MSN, FNP, NP-C
Nursing Faculty, Husson College, Bangor

MAROULLA GLEATON, MD

As a full-time, practicing physician, Dr. Maroulla Gleaton understands health care delivery firsthand. This understanding is broadened by regular contact with other physicians and health providers throughout the state as a member of the Executive Committee of the Maine Medical Association. She will continue her involvement with the Maine Medical Association as their alternate delegate to the American Medical Association.

Although an ophthalmologist, she has a strong affiliation with primary care physicians as Family Medicine residents clinically rotate with her. Also she sits on the...

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Maroulla Gleaton, MD
Practicing physician and business partner, Atlee Gleaton Eyecare

LANI F.B. GRAHAM, MD, MPH

Dr. Lani Graham: Lani Graham is a Family Practice physician with a Masters Degree in Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She is a Maine native with a long history of interest in health care services for the medically underserved. She practiced medicine in the Massachusetts prison system, Nicaragua, Central America, several Native American reservations (North Dakota & Mississippi), and in the state of Georgia, where she managed a Migrant Health Services program, before returning to Maine to work within the Maine Public Health system. She was Director of the Division of Disease Control in t...

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Lani F.B. Graham, MD, MPH
(retired) Medical Director, Office of Public Health Emergency Preparedness

LISA MILLER, MPH

Lisa Miller serves part-time as the Senior Program Officer of the Bingham Program, a charitable endowment that focuses its giving in Maine, administered by the New England Medical Center in Boston. She currently manages a diverse array of projects addressing access to health care, healthy community coalition development, public health policy, mental health, school health, and health professions training. Lisa is also a second term Representative in the 123nd Maine House of Representatives, serving a district of five small rural towns. She is a former Vice President of the Maine Health Access F...

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Lisa Miller, MPH
Senior Program Officer, Bingham Program

WAYNE W. MYERS, MD

Wayne Myers M.D. is a retired pediatrician. He spent most of his career developing and managing a rural allopathic and osteopathic medical school, allied health and AHEC programs in Alaska, the Pacific Northwest and Appalachian Kentucky. He directed the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy for two years and was president of the National Rural Health Association in 2003. He currently chairs Maine's Rural Health Working Group, appointed by the Governor's Office of Health Policy, and is involved with national organizations trying to strengthen rural development. He's a trustee of Appalachian Reg...

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Wayne W. Myers, MD
Retired Pediatrician

NEIL ROLDE

Mr. Rolde served for 16 years as a member of the Maine House of Representative and 6 years as assistant to Governor Kenneth Curtis. In 1990, Neil was the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine. Neil has served on the following governmental committees: Maine Health Care Reform Commission; Maine Children’s Health Care Task Force, Laptop Learning Task Force, Maine Arts Commission and the Maine Humanities Council.

He has also served with the following private, non-profit endeavors: former Trustee, University of New England (from which he received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters); ...

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Neil Rolde
Former, 16 year member, of the Maine State Legislature

DIANA SCULLY, MSW

Diana Scully, MSW, Director, Office of Elder Services, Department of Health and Human Services.

Diana Scully began returned to State Government in August 2004 after a 17-year hiatus. In January 2006, she was appointed Director of the Office of Elder Services in the newly merged Department of Health and Human Services.

In 1989, Diana established Vantage Point, a Hallowell-based consulting firm. Her anchor client for 15 years was the Maine Indian Tribal-State Commission, for whom she served as part-time Executive Director. Diana also consulted with 60 other public and private nonpr...

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Diana Scully, MSW
Director, Office of Elder Services, DHHS, State of ME

JEFF WAHLSTROM

Jeff Wahlstrom is managing director of Starboard Leadership Consulting, providing management guidance and assistance to nonprofits. He has more than 25 years of hands-on, nonprofit experience, including 11 as the president of the United Way of Eastern Maine. Prior to that, Jeff was director of development at Trinity College (Hartford) and, even earlier, Kimball Union Academy. He is actively involved on a number of community and statewide boards, committees and task forces, including Common Good Ventures and the Bangor School Committee. He is the recent past-chair of the Maine Philanthropy C...

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Jeff Wahlstrom
President, Starboard Leadership Consulting

LEE WEBB, PHD

Mr. Webb has more than 30 years of experience in public policy analysis, state government, as well as hospital and university administration. In the 1970s, he founded and was President of the Center for Policy Alternatives in Washington, a national public policy research center on state and local government policy. In that capacity, he edited and wrote a number of books on state public policy issues. Desiring to work directly for state government, Lee moved to New York to become a senior member of Governor Cuomo's administration as Executive Vice President of the NY Urban Development Corpor...

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Lee Webb, PhD
Senior Fellow, Margaret Chase Smith Center, UMO

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