Our Mission

To secure and allocate funds for medical research and treatment advancements.

 

Our logo was inspired by this photo
of Tara and her younger brother Alex.

 
  
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

Board of Directors

Karen L. Bean - President and Co-Founder
Margery L. Piercey, CPA - Vice President and Treasurer
Lizabeth A. Rombousek - Clerk and Co-Founder

Advisory Council

Edward M. Augustus Jr.
Massachusetts State Senator

Penny A. Bodle
Groton, CT

Leonard Brescia
Pioneer, a Wastequip Company

Barbara Cantwell
Edward Jones

Oguz Cataltepe, MD
UMass Memorial Medical Center

Richard DeAgazio
Ironsides Associates

Marianne Felice, MD
UMass Memorial Children’s Medical Center

David Frem
Cyprian Keyes Golf Club

Claire Gaudiani, PhD
Heyman Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at NYU

Jenique LeBlond
UBS Financial

Craig C. Mello, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
2006 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Lawrence Neumann
Boston Scientific

Martha M. Payne Zacharek
Baystate Financial Services

Pascale Perusse, MD
Ophthalmologic Surgeon—Worcester, MA

Karyn E. Polito
Massachusetts State Representative

R. Michael Scott, MD
Children’s Hospital Boston

We wish to gratefully acknowledge Frederic Epstein, MD- a Tara Bean Foundation Advisory Council member who passed away suddenly in 2006.  He was a world-renowned Pediatric Neurosurgeon and author of several books, including, If I Get to Five. What Children Can Teach Us About Courage and Character

 
 
 


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