Trustees & Staff

The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation was established as a charitable testamentary trust by Ethel Donaghue in memory of her parents. The Foundation is governed by two trustees, Lynne Garner and Bank of America as represented by Sheilah B. Rostow, Senior Vice President.

Lynne Garner, PhD
Trustee & Executive Director

Sheilah Rostow
Bank of America
Trustee

Nancy Yedlin, MPH
Director of Program Communication & Management

Stacy Cloud
Grants Administrator

Wendy Vachon,
Administrative Assistant

Sheilah Rostow

Sheilah Rostow, Senior Vice President & Philanthropic Market Director

 

Sheilah B. Rostow serves as the executive officer of Bank of America to carry out its responsibilities as institutional Co-Trustee of the Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. She brings to the Foundation over 27 years of fiduciary administration, trust and investment management. She is Senior Vice President and Philanthropic Market Director and has represented Bank of America, and before that Fleet Bank, as Co-Trustee of Donaghue since 1997. Ms. Rostow currently serves on the board of The Connecticut Council for Philanthropy, The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven Trustee Bank Committee, the Advisory Council for Women's Health Research at Yale and the board of the Connecticut Estate and Tax Planning Council