The Hope, Healing and Health Campaign Donors and Volunteers

The American Osteopathic Foundation (AOF) is undertaking the biggest challenge in our history: To raise $20 million to support unprecedented financial need, fuel patient-centered research, and open professional pathways within the profession.

For over 75 years, the AOF is proud of the collective impact we have made supporting Osteopathic medical students, residents, and physicians throughout their careers. Given our profession’s current unprecedented growth, the Foundation is needed more than ever, and the AOF is presented with an extraordinary opportunity to impact lives in ways that will multiply for decades to come.

Before launching publicly, the AOF Board of Directors came together to form a nucleus of gifts toward the Campaign. These multi-year pledges and donations were given through a variety of assets including stocks, QCDs, RMDs, planned gifts, IRAs, insurance, and cash.

Our deepest gratitude to the AOF Board for their early and generous support for the Hope, Healing and Health Campaign and for all other donors who are already coming forward to be a part of this important campaign.

The AOF is deeply grateful for all gifts supporting this campaign. Listed below are gifts and pledges of $5,000 or more that have been committed as of February 2026.

$5,000,000+ 
 Heatherington Foundation for Innovation and Education in Health Care

$4,000,000+ 
 Dr. Thomas and Sissy Quinn

$1,000,000+ 
 Jeffrey S. Grove, DO

$200,000+ 
 Dawn R. Tartaglione, DO

$100,000+ 
 Dr. Scott and Mrs. Janell Cyrus 
 Robert W. Hostoffer, DO
 Barbara Ross-Lee, DO 
 Karen J. Nichols, DO and James B. Nichols
 Dr. Joseph and Mrs. Nancy Zammuto

$50,000+ 
 Anonymous
 Rita Forden
 Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO 
 Seger S. Morris, DO, MBA 
 Julieanne P. Sees, DO, MBA
 Norman Vinn, DO, MBA

$25,000+
Carol Henwood, DO

$15,000+
 Carisa Champion, DO, JD, MPH 
 Laura Rosch, DO
 Thomas Wallace

$10,000+ 
Anonymous 
John J. Kowalczyk, DO       
Drs. Sonbol Shahid Salles  and Gregory Harris

$5,000+
 Ernest R. Gelb, DO, FACOFP
 Kris Nicholoff
 Paul Martin, DO, MS, FACOFP
 Christopher Paynter, DO, MS, FACOFP
 Linda Saulnier

Campaign Volunteers

Campaign Cabinet

 Jeffrey S. Grove, DO 
 Jeff Heatherington, LHD
 Tanya Porter
 Sonia Rivera-Martinez, DO 
 Barbara Ross-Lee, DO 
 Linda Saulnier
 Dawn R. Tartaglione, DO
 Tom Wallace
 Joseph A. Zammuto, DO

Blue-Ribbon Committee

 Jeffrey S. Grove, DO, co-chair
 Norm Vinn, DO MBA, co-chair
 Peter Ajluni, DO
 Scott Cyrus, DO
 Robert W. Hostoffer, DO
 Dixie Tooke-Rawlins, DO
 Joseph A. Zammuto, DO