Our Team and Board
We are stewards. A team of community leaders with passionate commitment. As we oversee fundraising projects and manage the Foundation’s assets, we strive to ensure that your selfless generosity has purpose and impact according to your wishes — and that each and every gift enhances the quality of health care in meaningful ways.
Meet the Team

Director, Communications & Donor Relations
Beth Anne Atkins

Executive Assistant
Karen Bean

Executive Assistant
Elizabeth Briney

Coordinator, Annual Giving
Scottie Brown

Administrator, Grants Office
Michele Cherry

Director, Annual Giving
Christy Deardorff

Development Systems Analyst
Dana Everett

Senior Officer & Medical Advisor
Dr. Herb Garrison

Director, Community Benefits
Kahla Hall

Coordinator, Development Programs
Elise Ironmonger

Director, Development (Maynard Children's Hospital)
Rhonda James

Senior Director of Development, School of Dental Medicine
Jon Jones

Director, Affiliate Relations
Bobbie Lapiejko

Grants Specialist
Gina Long

Director, ECU Health Community Hospitals Grants and Outreach
Bridgett Luckey

Senior Director of Development, College of Nursing
Elizabeth Maxwell

Budget Finance Specialist
Christopher Molina

Corporate Accountant
Ronald Murrell

Administrative Assistant
Nicole Nesmith

Corporate Accountant
Martha Reavis

Coordinator, Development Programs
Christina Ridgeway

Chief Philanthropy Officer
Scott Senatore

Gift Processor
Lisa Thomas

Director, Leadership Annual Giving
Grace Tolson

Donor Relations Coordinator
Blair Vick

Director, Development (ECU Health Cancer Care)
Varessa Wall
Governing Bodies
An agreement between the ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation and Vidant Health Foundation has been signed and executed, creating the ECU Health Foundation. The two entities will align to operate as one philanthropic arm supporting ECU Health and ECU’s health sciences campus. Under the agreement, the two foundations will remain separate legal entities, but will integrate under a new shared brand known as ECU Health Foundation.
Joint Operating Committee
Deanna Boyette, MD
Spence Cosby
Chris Dyba
Will Franklin
Mitch Jones
Tess Judge
Freeman Paylor
Chancellor Philip Rogers
Jordy Whichard
Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA
Vidant Health Foundation Board
Chair
Spence Cosby
Vice Chair
Mitch Jones
Secretary
Tess Judge
Treasurer
Freeman Paylor
Past Chair
William D. Mitchum, Jr.
Board Members
Cassie Causey
Marshall Cherry
Drew Covert
Melissa B. Duncan, MD
Wendy C. Farrior
Elizabeth “Betsy” Flanagan
George Griffin, III
Christopher Jenkins
Thomas Kulikowski
Bridgett M. Minges
Marcy S. Sasnett
Waightstill “Wade” Morehead Scales, IV
Diane Taylor
Clark S. Twiddy
Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA
Regional Representatives
Lynne Layton
Sandy Martin
Becky Newton
William M. Parker
Jack Piland
ECU Medical & Health Sciences Foundation Board
Chair
David “Jordy” Whichard, III
Vice Chair
William “Will” P. Franklin, Jr.
Secretary
Deanna Boyette, MD
Treasurer
Joel Stocks
Directors
Bimbola Akintade, PhD
Rick Bare, MD
William C. Brody
Cassandra B. Burt
Gregory Chadwick, DDS
Stephanie Coleman
Paul R. G. Cunningham, MD, FACS
Taylor Duck
Chris Dyba
Gene Faller
Herb Garrison, MD, MPH
R. Scott Griffin
Benjamin “Bennie” Hardy, CPA
Joseph “Sheldon” Jenkins
Vincent Robert “Rob” Jones
Beth Ketterman, MLS
Todd Kornegay, MD
Dasha E. Little
Katherine Mackey
Julius Mallette, MD
Robert “Bob” Orlikoff, PhD
Uday Reebye, DDS
Philip Rogers, EdD
Thomas L. Southern
Lewis “Randy” Strickland, EdD
Jonathan Taft
Phillip Z. Timmons, MD
William Truslow, MD
Michael Waldrum, MD, MSc, MBA
Kathryn H. Walker
David L. Ward, Jr.
Heber W. Windley III, DDS, MS
Kevin B. Youngs
Emeritus Members
Alice H. Bost
Hyman J. Brody
Stacy C. Brody
Richard Brown
James W. Chesnutt
Jonathan R. Day
Mary Sue Cummings Deaton, MSN, RN, FABC
Thomas L. Edwards, Sr.
E. Bradley Evans
John M. Hines
Eloise K. Howard
Robert “Roddy” L. Jones
Suzanne Pecheles
Diane A. Poole
Douglas Privette, MD, FACC
Mary J. Raab, MD
Tom Robinson
H. L. Stephenson, III
Shelby S. Strother