Helping shape a better community.
Hamot Health Foundation is guided by a dedicated Board of Trustees whose leadership and strategic oversight ensure that our mission remains focused, accountable, and impactful. Each trustee brings valuable experience and perspective, helping to shape initiatives that advance health, innovation, and opportunity throughout our community.
2025-26 Officers
- Beth Burnside — Chair
- Danielle Bates, CPA — Vice Chair
- Charles "Boo" Hagerty — Chief Development Officer
- Carrie E. Ennis — Secretary
- Bradley N. Dinger — Treasurer
2025-26 Board of Trustees
- Danielle Bates, CPA — Accudyn Products, Inc.
- Mbembo Bongutu, MD — UPMC Hamot
- Harold "H" Bender — Team Hardinger
- Bishop Dwane Brock — Eagle's Nest Leadership Corporation
- Beth Burnside — CMIT Solutions of Erie
- Elliott J. Ehrenreich, Esq. — Phillips Lytle
- Sarah Ewing, PhD — Gannon University
- Lorianne (LA) Feltz — Erie Insurance
- Garrett A. Fuhrman — Fuhrman-Brown Precision Tool
- Emily Hirsch — UPMC Hamot Aid Society
- Allison Hodas — ERIEBANK
- Margaret Joy, Esq. — McCarthy McEnroe Rosinski & Joy
- Abby Lechner — Human Capital Associates
- Robert Maholic, DO — UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute at UPMC Hamot
- Jennifer Naber, MD — Pathology Associates of Erie
- Doug Smith — Erie Insurance
- Kyle Strayer — Erie Strayer Company
- Debra Uht — Professional Communications Messaging Service, Inc.
- Lisa Watkins — Retired, Kimkopy Printing