Leadership Team

Wheeler is guided by a diverse and talented team of leaders who are firmly committed to promoting recovery, health and growth at all stages of life.

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP TEAM

SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

  • Deborah A Batsie-Hernandez, MS, LMFT, Senior Director, Children's Community-based Services
  • Christopher Beausoleil, MBA, Senior Director of Health Center Operations, Bristol 
  • Dru Breslav, LCSW, Senior Director of Community-Based Family Services
  • Elisabeth Cannata, Ph.D., Vice President, Community-Based Family Services and Practice Innovation
  • Kimberly F. Carmelich, MPA, Senior Director of Grants
  • Sharlene Croteau, LCSW, Senior Director, Adult Services, Community Justice
  • Monique Daley, EdD, CDP, Diversity Officer
  • Rita Demo, MPH, LMFT, Vice President of Community, Crisis, and Prevention
  • Teodoro Anderson Diaz, MS, MSW, LCSW, LADC, Vice President of Health and Wellness Center Outpatient Services
  • Shelby Dumond, CPA, Vice President of Finance
  • Rebecca Eleck, MD, Primary Care Medical Director
  • Dan Herens, Vice President of Information Technology
  • Tiffany Hubrins, LCSW, Senior Director, Congregate Care, Crisis, Early Childhood, and Extended Day Services
  • Douglas Jackson, MS, 6th Year, Vice President of Education Services, and Principal, Northwest Village School
  • Keturah Kinch, MPA Senior Director of Health Center Operations, Hartford
  • Melissa Mendez, LCSW, Senior Director, Community, Crisis, and Prevention Services
  • Mariana Paxton, MS, Senior Director of Quality
  • Amanda Pratte, MBA,  Senior Director of Health Center Operations, Waterbury
  • Todd M. Raymond, Vice President, Facilities
  • Lisa Roth, MS,  Senior Director of Health Center Operations, New Britain
  • Camila Rubino, MBA, MSN, BSN, RN, Senior Director of Nursing [Read More]
  • Linda Russo, LMFT, CPHQ, Vice President of Quality Operations
  • Catherine Sisco, MPA, CPS, Senior Director of Prevention, Wellness, and Recovery
  • John Sponauer, MBA, FACHE, Vice President, Marketing Communications and Philanthropic Giving
  • Katie Taylor, LCSW Senior Director of Health Center Operations, Plainville
  • Melissa Wagner, SHRM-SCP, Vice President of Human Resources
  • Michael P. Twist, DO, Psychiatric Medical Director

 

Wheeler Leadership News


Twenty Years of Building Stronger Families

Dozens of attendees honored an anniversary in Bristol for two decades of a highly successful model of home-based behavioral health treatment. Wheeler was intimately involved in the development of the Multisystemic Therapy – Building Stronger Families model in 2004-2005 and continues to be a leading provider around the state.

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Trustee Dick Salmon: Focused on Improving Care

From operating his own family medical practice in New Hampshire, to leading improvements in the quality of care for more than 15 million Americans as national medical director of Cigna HealthCare, Richard (Dick) Salmon, MD, PhD, has seen firsthand the complexity, challenges, and potential of America’s health care system. He now brings his decades of knowledge to Wheeler Health, joining our volunteer board of trustees in January.

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The Critical Need for Foster Families

A short video with Sharon Pendleton-Ponzani, director, Wheeler Foster Care Programs, highlights the need for loving foster homes in Connecticut and what individuals and families can do to help.

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