Gateway Rehab Board of Directors Installs Officers at Annual Meeting
Rick Abrams of Luttner Financial Group recent addition to board

Pittsburgh – The Gateway Rehabilitation Center board of directors elected officers at its annual meeting held at the Center Township (Beaver County) headquarters on October 31. 

Robert E. Carter, CFRE, president of Ketchum Fund Raising Counsel, was re-elected chairman of the board, James C. Rogal, president of Century Communications, LLC, was re-elected vice chairman of the board, and Kevin P. Boland, CPA, executive vice president of Donnelly-Boland and Associates, was re-elected treasurer.  Richard C. Grace of Moon Township-based Grace Consulting was elected secretary of the board.

Rick Abrams, vice president of investments at Luttner Financial Group in Pittsburgh, was recently named to the board. 

A Pittsburgh native, Abrams has worked in the financial services field for the past 18 years and joined Luttner Financial Group two years ago.  He previously held positions in television production, sports and entertainment, and sales at nationally known companies such as Xerox Corporation.

Abrams has been active on the boards of Juvenile Diabetes of Greater Pittsburgh, Jewish Community Center (JCC), and Charles Morris Home.  He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and received his MBA from The University of Buffalo.  He has two children and resides in the Shadyside community of Pittsburgh with his wife Cynthia.

Other current members of Gateway’s board include Tom Davis, CPA, (principle of Hill, Barth & King, Youngstown, Ohio); Richard F. Galardini (president and CEO of HRH Affinity Marketing Group, Pittsburgh); Atty. Michael H. Marks (Pittsburgh); Henry A.

Mordoh (retired president of Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh); Bob O’Connor (mayor-elect, City of Pittsburgh); Kenneth S. Ramsey, Ph.D. (president and CEO of Gateway); Antonia L. Scarlata-Macpherson (Pittsburgh); Paul M. Sweeney (president of Tri County Management, Cranberry Township); and Abraham J. Twerski, M.D. (founder and medical director emeritus of Gateway).

Gateway is a nationally recognized leader in the drug and alcohol prevention and treatment field.  Since its founding in 1972, Gateway has treated nearly 80,000 individuals, and currently provides treatment for approximately 8,000 adults and youths within a network of 20 locations in Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio.