R. Anthony Snow, M.D.
Tony is the Medical Director and co-host for Wellsville. He lends his knowledge in writing, editing and consulting on a variety of health topics. A family physician with Community Health Net in Erie PA, Dr. Snow received his medical degree at the University of Pittsburgh Medical School. A Colonel and flight surgeon in the Air Force Reserves, he recently completed a tour of duty in Baghdad. Dr. Snow consults with several area residential programs for troubled teens, and is a medical director of the Erie County Department of Health. He serves on the clinical teaching staff for Gannon University's physician assistant program, and is active in numerous professional and community organizations addressing civic growth, mental health and other health topics. Dr. Snow has received several awards including the "Hometown Hero" award from the United Way of America, and special recognition from the Pennsylvania Legislature.

Kathy Iorio, B.A.
Kathy serves as an executive producer/director, writer, and co-host of Wellsville. Kathy has been in the fitness/wellness field for over 30 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Edinboro University, Pennsylvania, and is certified as a Lifestyle and Weight Management Coach and Group Fitness Leader from the American Council on Exercise, Fitness Specialist from the YMCA and is a certified children’s fitness specialist from the American Fitness Professionals and Associates.

Kathy worked at the Hamot Wellness Center, a medical fitness center, for 22 years, 18 as the director. Kathy authored a column “Fit for Life” in The Erie Daily Times for 8 years, is the featured instructor in six fitness videos, and was the co-host of a 30-minute weekly children’s health and fitness television program, Clubhouse 24, which ran for 7 seasons on Erie’s local ABC affiliate. Kathy is the program director of "Wellsville Goes to School" a unique youth mentoring/cross-age teaching program that combines physical activity, nutrition education and self-esteem building activities for children. She is also a facilitator for KidShape, a pediatric weight management program for youths 6 to 14 years of age.

She is the recipient of the Gifts for Kids, Inc. “Fourth Annual Helping Hand Award”, the Mercy Center for Women’s “ Women Making History Award” and the “Club Industry National Distinguished Business Woman’s Award” in the category of Industry Enhancement. Kathy was awarded the 2008 President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports’ Community Leadership Award. Kathy is a member of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Advisory Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Amy Luce
Amy serves as a writer and editor for Wellsville. She loved teaching English for both middle and high school students in the area for fifteen years and is now a stay-at-home mom for her two boys. She stays busy by doing free lance writing and editing for local businesses and area universities. She has been an editor and consultant for several published books. She has a bachelor’s degree in secondary education/English from Penn State University and a master’s degree in English literature from Gannon University. She and her boys, who are Wellsville kids, enjoy being part of the Wellsville family and spreading its message of healthy thinking and living.

Stan Zlotkowski
Stan films, edits and serves as a creative director for Wellsville. He owns and operates Z3 Concepts, Inc., a video production company specializing in creative video for sales, marketing and training needs. Capabilities include creative direction, script writing, studio and on-location shooting, “Avid” and “Final Cut Pro” non-linear editing, 2D and 3D animation and CD-ROM and Web compressing. Clients include CNN, Discovery Channel, History Channel, General Electric, and other corporate and regional marketing firms. Z3 staff travels several times a year to coordinate national and international travel and equipment arrangements. Stan’s ten years in the business have produced regional and national awards in categories including commercials, corporate image, health care and public relations.

Greg Windle
Greg is Wellsville’s Multimedia Specialist. Greg is responsible for the web site and various graphic design functions. Greg has 10 years experience in web design, e-learning, videography, photography, graphic arts and all kinds of multimedia design and development. Greg has worked with many global companies including Lend Lease, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Accenture, Zurich, Compaq and STERIS Corporation. Born and educated in Sydney, Australia, Greg has always worked in technology related fields. Greg owns ErieMultimedia, an award winning multimedia design and development company in Erie, PA.

Chris Schroeder
Chris is Wellsville’s illustrator and caricaturist. Chris is responsible for giving Wellsville its unique branding by creating caricatures of all those who appear on the show, as well as various fun illustrations and scenery artwork. Chris also draws live caricatures at many of Wellsville’s public events. Chris has 8 years of experience working in design, film, animation, website design, photography, and illustration. He recently went full-time as owner of Schroeder Creations, a multi-disciplinary art & design studio located in Erie, PA. To see more of his work, please visit www.savethedoodle.com.

Sarah Hale, R.D.
Sarah is one of Wellsville’s Registered Dietitians for the weekly TV show and helps out with Wellsville community outreach programs. She received her Bachelors Degree in Nutritional Sciences through Penn State University in State College, PA. and completed her dietetic internship through Adagio Health, formerly known as Family Health Council, Inc. She currently works for Adagio Health teaching nutrition education to K-12 grade students at Union City Area School District in Pennsylvania.
She, along with Kathy Iorio, is one of the facilitators for a pediatric weight management program for kids and their families called KidShape. She enjoys running, cooking, camping and spending time with her family and husband Zack, a high school math teacher in the same school district where she teaches.

Sandra Luthringer, R.D.
Sandra serves as one of the dietitians for Wellsville. She can be found helping with Wellsville health fairs, community events or “on the set” of the Wellsville weekly TV show serving up great nutrition tips and scrumptious, simple recipes the whole family can enjoy.

Sandra Luthringer is a compassionate, versatile and consummate Registered Dietitian in Erie, PA. She began her career at Hamot Medical Center as a clinical nutritionist and then moved to The Regional Cancer Center when it was built to act as their nutritionist, counseling patients on dietary changes that may help them through their course of treatments and educating the public on healthy eating to prevent cancer.

Over the years that Sandy worked at the Cancer Center, she became known as the expert in cancer nutrition both in our Erie community as well as throughout the country. She was a founding member and then chairman of the Oncology Nutrition DPG, a subgroup of the American Dietetic Association. The ON-DPG has a membership of over 1500 dietitians in the US and Canada who all work in the oncology field. She was on the boards for the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society and helped to develop many of their nutrition pamphlets and programs that are used nationwide today. She has spoken to a variety of audiences, both professional groups and the lay public on all aspects of nutrition and cancer care. She is the author of several chapters in textbooks used by medical professionals and co-edited a book published by the Oncology Nurses Society titled Nutritional Issues in Cancer Care…a book for medical professionals…found on the bookshelves of many oncology nurses and in the libraries of many medical schools. Sandy is currently working on another book, a guide to nutrition for cancer survivors to be published in 2011.

After over 20 years working in the field of oncology, Sandy’s entrepreneurial spirit was ready for a new challenge…and in 2006, she opened Super Suppers...a studio kitchen and retail store known as a “meal assembly store” or a “take and bake” store…. either way, it is your answer to “What’s for Dinner?”. Her mission with Super Suppers is help families get back to the dinner and out of the fast food lane by offering healthy, home-cooked entree options.

When she’s not in the kitchen at Super Suppers, Sandy can be found teaching nutrition classes at the YMCAs in Erie, offering personal nutrition consultations to individuals in our community, at the WJET TV studio bringing a live nutrition segment to morning news viewers, or “on the set” of the weekly Wellsville TV!

Some people have jobs, others careers, Sandy has a “calling” – to serve others with the best nutrition advice and to provide tools and solutions for everyone to live with good nutrition!

Wellsville’s "Weather Guy" Tom DiVecchio, BS
Tom serves as the Wellsville Meteorologist. In the broadcast business for 17 years, he is a meteorologist for Erie’s ABC affiliate. Tom co-hosted a half-hour weekly television show called “Clubhouse 24” which focused on children’s health and fitness. The show ran for seven seasons. That program evolved into a community project, Project B-Fit, delivered to students in kindergarten through third grade. Tom has co-hosted school-based assemblies for this project reaching thousands of young students with the themes of staying active, eating well and respecting yourself and others. Tom also runs his own weather information program for children, “WeatherFun 24”, reaching over 450 schools and almost 45,000 students since 1993.

Sara Hassell
Sara is a creative visionary! Over the years Sara has worn a variety of hat including an assistant on the TV shoots, creative consultant for the Esteem Stream segments, and most recently, lead administrator of the Wellsville’s Facebook page.  Sara, husband Shawn and their two awesome kids, Hannah and Ian have all appeared in several segments of the TV show and they all love volunteering for Wellsville community outreach events.  Sara is a graduate of the Graphic Arts program at the Ashtabula County Joint Vocational School, and enjoys using the training she received there to spread the empowering Wellsville messages in a variety of venues. When Sara isn’t helping out with Wellsville she can be found beachcombing with her husband and children at their private beach, indulging in their new passion; vegetable gardening,  and designing "one-of-a-kind" jewelry pieces for her beach/stain glass business, Hannah’s Moon.

Wellsville’s "Zoo Guy" Scott Mitchell
Bio Coming Soon

Judge Stephanie Domitovich, Ph.D
Bio Coming Soon

Judy Martin
Bio Coming Soon

Jennifer Martin, MBA
Jennifer lends her excellent grant writing skills and many years of business development to Wellsville. She has over 15 years experience in small business development, and has secured over $30 million for businesses and non-profit organizations from federal, state, foundation and local funding sources. Jennifer has significant experience in the health care field, bringing in over $5 million in new funding for area health care providers. Her experience includes grant writing, strategic planning and new project management. Jen is personally committed to health as evidenced by her being the 1995 Pan American Games Silver Medalist in the Marathon, represented the United States at the World Championships eight times in the Half-Marathon (1989, ‘90 thru 1995) and in World Cup Marathon (1991) competitions. She is a 4-time Olympic Trials Marathon Qualifier (1984, ‘88, ‘92, ‘96), with a personal 10K best of 32:10, half-marathon of 1:13 and marathon time of 2:36. She is the winner of the 1993 Columbus Marathon and the 1994 California International Marathon.

Ingrid Haugsdahl, MPA
Ingrid is Wellsville’s data analyst. She is responsible for creating, compiling, analyzing, reporting and monitoring Wellsville’s outcome measurements including program evaluations, program outcomes, satisfaction surveys and focus groups. Ingrid has a Master of Public Administration (with 15 credits focused specifically on research methods) from Gannon University. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Speech and Communication (with and emphasis in Public Relations) from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. Ingrid has been a data analyst since 1996 and has worked in various setting including healthcare, community, education and private practices. Ingrid has also organized, conducted, analyzed and reported on community wide focus groups. Ingrid facilitates OptionFinder (an electronic hand held audience response system) for hospitals, outside agencies and the community. Ingrid’s passion for helping others achieve total well being is evident in her volunteer efforts for various causes and organization including the American Heart Association (Celebrity Waiter and Have a Heart chairperson), United Way/Gannon University COMPASS project, Erie Metro Meals on Wheels, Fund Raiser Disco Dance to benefit Hamot Medical Center’s Circle of Care Children’s Fund, Hamot United Charities giving recruiter and the Hamot Wellness Center Advisory Committee.

Tina Stasiewski, MBA
Tina serves as a writer and editor for Wellsville. Her background includes public and media relations, business development, marketing, issues management, strategic planning and corporate communications in the non-profit agency and health care settings. For over 18 years, she has lent her writing skills to creating messages for board members and senior level administrators. Tina completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications-English and her Master of Business Administration from Gannon University. She understands the importance of developing positive life style habits to truly get the most out of life.

The Wellsville Kids and Volunteers
Good health and fit bodies come in all shapes, sizes, ages; skin colors and abilities just like our Wellsville kids, families and volunteers. The Wellsville kids, families and volunteers are kids and adults who are committed to living a healthy and fit lifestyle. They are great role models for any community! Some of the Wellsville kids and Wellsville volunteers appear in the "Working Out with the Wellsville Gang" nutrition and activity DVD volume 1, participate in the myriad community events, health fairs and other related Wellsville programs.