Meet our leaders!
The CT Healthcare Financial Management Association (CTHFMA) is pleased to announce the 2025 – 2027 Officers and Board of Directors. These individuals are very dedicated volunteers whose purpose is to improve the association and the healthcare industry. Congratulations and we look forward to their leadership and commitment.
OFFICERS
Matt Schuster
President
VP of Strategic Development
Eastern Account System
Kyle Dunleavy
President-Elect
Director of Single Billing Office – Clinical Business Services
University of CT Health
Taryn Smith, CPA
Treasurer
Director
BakerTilly
Susan Prior, CHC
Secretary
Principal
BerryDunn
Paul Krsiak, MBA-HCM
Immediate Past President
Supervisor, Business Intelligence
Middlesex Health
Directors (Term Expires 2026)
- Chad Bianchi, CHFP, CPA, CSAF – Controller at University of Connecticut Health Center
- Sue DiMatteo – Director Patient Financial Services at University of CT Health Center
- Sharlene Seidman – Senior VP, Revenue Cycle at Yale New Haven Health
- Erin Squires – Regional Director of Patient Access at Trinity Health Of New England
- Christina Steiner – Senior Director – Healthcare Industry Group at Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC
Directors (Term Expires 2027)
- Regina Alexendar – Principal at BerryDunn
- Howard Gaines – Regional Director of Financial Planning at Trinity Health of New England
- John Koliani, CPA, ABV – Partner at CohnReznick LLP
- Chris Whitton – Account Manager at Medix
- Bill Wollman, FHFMA – Executive Director at Evergreen Endoscopy Center
(All voted in by membership 1.31.2025)
| Past President | Year |
| Paul Krsiak | 2024-2025 |
| Susan Prior | 2023-2024 |
| Matt Schuster | 2022-2023 |
| Denise Smith | 2021 – 2022 |
| Andrew Lis | 2020 – 2021 |
| Christina Steiner | 2019 – 2020 |
| Megan Budd | 2018 – 2019 |
| Sarah Ginnetti | 2017 – 2018 |
| Susan Prior | 2016 – 2017 |
| Frank Miceli | 2015 – 2016 |
| Shannon St. Hilaire | 2014 – 2015 |
| Eric Wetherell | 2013 – 2014 |
| Stephen W. Vargo | 2012 – 2013 |
| Joseph M. Pajor | 2010 – 2012 |
| James Harris | 2008 – 2010 |
| Lou D’Auria | 2006 – 2008 |
| Mary Lou Sanders | 2004 – 2006 |
| Roger Sliby | 2002 – 2004 |
| Kathleen Pajor | 2001 – 2002 |
| Sue Stanley | 2000 – 2001 |
| Robert M. Halko | 1999 – 2000 |
| Robert Haley | 1998 – 1999 |
| Joseph Pelaccia | 1997 – 1998 |
| Cynthia R. Bober | 1996 – 1997 |
| Michael Rosadini | 1995 – 1996 |
| John R. McNeff, Jr. | 1994 – 1995 |
| Stephen B. McPherson | 1993 – 1994 |
| Charles N. Starbranch | 1992 – 1993 |
| Joseph R. Sarno | 1991 – 1992 |
| Honey Pivirotto | 1990 – 1991 |
| Robert A. Barrio | 1989 – 1990 |
| Patrick G. McKeever | 1988 – 1989 |
| Marianne D’Eugenio | 1987 – 1988 |
| George W. Pace | 1986 – 1987 |
| Leila McGehe | 1985 – 1986 |
| Richard Werkowski | 1984 – 1985 |
| Robert Nelson | 1982 – 1984 |
| Edward Simonds | 1980 – 1982 |
| John Stairs | 1978 – 1980 |
| Patrick Colangelo | 1976 – 1978 |
| Arlene Sayers | 1974 – 1976 |
| Robert Pearce | 1972 – 1974 |
| Alfred Fasulo | 1971 – 1972 |
| Charles Scranton | 1970 – 1971 |
| Louis Affinito | 1969 – 1970 |
| Walter Dwyer | 1968 – 1969 |
| Richard Peterson | 1967 – 1968 |
| Frank Pagliaro | 1966 – 1967 |
| Anton Zidex | 1965 – 1966 |
| Anthony Pepe | 1964 |
| Thomas Keating | 1963 |
| Raymond Farrell | 1962 |
| Robert Connor | 1959 |
| Donald Berkowitz | 1958 |
| Harold Larsen | 1957 |
| Robert Patiemo | 1956 |
| Arlene Sayers | 1955 |
| John Evans | 1954 |
| Stanley Shepard | 1953 |
| Charles Rogers | 1952 |