Management Team

In 2012, Dale Brantner was appointed the President & CEO of CURE International, taking over from CURE's Founder, Dr. Scott Harrison. He served the previous six years as the senior vice president for CURE International, leading the organization's spiritual ministry as well as its development efforts.

Dale has significant international professional experience, including serving as department head of biblical studies, professor of Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew and then president of Theological College of Zimbabwe from 1996 to 2002. His work has also taken him to Israel and the West Bank, where he studied archaeology and the culture of the ancient Near East for several years.

Prior to coming to CURE International, Dale was associate pastor of college students and young adults at West Shore Evangelical Free Church in Mechanicsburg, PA. He also was an adjunct faculty member of biblical studies at Messiah College in Grantham, PA.

An avid outdoorsman, Dale lives in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania with his wife Dianne and their three children.

CURE co-founder Sally Harrison R.N. began her medical career with a nursing degree from Shady Side Hospital in Pittsburgh. Her interests extend to other areas of service as well. Sally has a heart for women and prayer, which she put into practice by serving as Director of Women's Ministries and Director of Prayer Ministries at West Shore Evangelical Church in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. She has also served as a volunteer at the Capital Area Crisis Pregnancy Center in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.

Sally got her first taste of overseas medical ministry with a trip to Malawi, Africa with her husband, Dr. Scott Harrison, an orthopedic surgeon. It was in Malawi that she saw the overwhelming needs of the mothers of disabled children...and wanted to address them. The Harrisons returned to Malawi often because they were gripped by the needs of the disabled children and their families.

And then she and her husband started CURE as an organized way to help people in similar situations in other developing countries. Her passion to meet the needs of the world's most vulnerable women has shaped CURE's strategies. Because of her, CURE has moved into the poorest countries with the greatest medical needs. And in these countries, CURE has developed ways to provide mothers of disabled children with the knowledge and the resources to take care of their young. What's more, CURE provides room and board for the mother of children being treated. Sally's sensitivity to the holistic healing of families makes CURE unique as well as successful as a model of medical care.

In addition, Sally's vision to help needy women has resulted in CURE training and employing women in many areas of the facilities, reinforcing their inherent worth and natural abilities - regardless of what their culture tells them.

She has personally offered comfort to hundreds of overwhelmed mothers and women caregivers throughout the world - Dominican Republic, Malawi, Kenya and Uganda.

Sally is the mother of three children and grandmother to three more.

Mark Knecht serves as the Chief Financial Officer of CURE International and is responsible for the financial operations of the organization. Prior to joining CURE, Mark served as Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis of a publicly traded senior care company. He also served in various accounting and finance functions at Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield, a national health insurance company and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Mark is a Certified Management Accountant. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a bachelor's degree in Accounting. Mark and his wife Deb have two children, Kaitlyn and Anna.

Chris Lavy is an orthopedic surgeon in Oxford, England and holds honorary professorships at Oxford University and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Chris serves on the leadership council of the College of Surgeons of Eastern, Central, and Southern Africa (COSECSA). He was also elected to the Council of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

Professor Lavy attended University College London and St. Bartholomew’s Medical School studying anthropology and then medicine. Lavy then pursued postgraduate training first as a general practitioner, then in orthopedics in Oxford, Norwich, Cambridge, Bath, Cape Town, London and Paris. He was appointed consultant orthopedic surgeon at University College Hospital and the Middlesex hospitals in 1992 and had a private practice in the West End of London.

He left London in 1996 to work with CBM International to set up orthopedic services in Malawi. There he was appointed professor at the University of Malawi College of Medicine and worked closely with CURE International to build the Beit CURE Children’s Hospital of Malawi in Blantyre, serving as the hospital's first Medical Director. He was a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2002 and is an advisor in orthopedics to many organizations including the World Health Organization (WHO). He was involved with setting up orthopedic training in the East and Central region of Africa and received the rank of member of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for this in 2007.

Lisa Wolf is Vice President of Donor Relations for CURE International. In this role, Lisa is responsible for CURE's events and donor communication strategy.

Prior to joining CURE, Lisa served as a marketing consultant to small and medium-sized businesses and non-profits. She has also held numerous fundraising positions for political candidates including Governor Tom Ridge (PA) during his first gubernatorial campaign. Following the campaign, she served in the Governor's office as a liaison to the cabinet and later directed economic development marketing for the Commonwealth.

Lisa holds a B.A. in Business Administration from Muhlenberg College. She serves as co-chair of the board of Jump Street, a regional arts council, and is an active member of the Camp Hill United Methodist Church. She and her husband Michael live in Enola, PA and have two children, Campbell and Carly.

Stephen Miller is a graduate of Letourneau University in Longview, Texas and a Licensed Professional Engineer by the State of Oregon. He and his wife Audrey have four children, Miriam, Matt, Mike and Jake.

Stephen spent over 10 years working outside of the United States, mainly in Africa and Brazil, doing rural construction projects and design and installation of water and micro-hydro electrical systems.

While in Africa, Stephen joined CURE to manage the start up and construction of CURE's first two hospitals, Kenya and Uganda. In 2001, Stephen returned to the United States to work at the CURE headquarters. He now serves as Vice President of International Operations, managing all of CURE's hospital construction projects, overseeing the Gift In Kind program and assisting in other areas.

Andy serves as Vice President of Project Management. In that role, he oversees the opening and transition of new CURE hospitals from construction to the first 24 months of operations.

Previously, Andy served as a Vice President of operations where he supported CURE’s hospitals in Kenya, Uganda, Niger and Ethiopia. Andy played a key role in the successful commissioning of CURE’s hospitals in Ethiopia, Honduras and Niger.

Prior to joining CURE, he worked in construction project management and as a sales engineer for a medical equipment company. Andy has bachelor’s degrees in both psychology and Biblical studies from Gordon College.

He is married with 2 adult children and lives in the scenic foothills of Dillsburg, Pa. For rest and recreation, Andy enjoys family camping and ocean fishing when the opportunity allows.

Erin started with CURE International in 2004 and has served both in the US, as a consultant and a Resource Development Director; and at CURE’s Kabul facility as Patient Services Manager, Finance Director and Interim Executive Director. She currently serves as Vice President of Operations, partnering with Senior Vice President for Hospital Operations, Joe Davis-Fleming to oversee CURE's network of hospitals.

Erin’s work prior to CURE includes serving as an International Program Coordinator for The Salvation Army in Blantyre, Malawi; and years of experience in working in case management in the US social service sector. She holds her BA in Sociology from Wheaton College. Erin lives in Madison and enjoys playing Ultimate Frisbee in any country where she can find a team.

As the VP of CURE.org, Joel leads CURE's technology, marketing, and communications strategy. He has more than a decade of experience in the technology industry delivering, supporting, and selling software solutions as a software architect, executive, and consultant. From 2006 through 2009, Joel served as technical management and VP of Engineering for a SaaS software company with offices in the U.S. and India focused on social and learning solutions for international businesses. Before that, he operated a software consulting firm, architecting Internet solutions for clients such as the Comcast Corporation.

Joel is a member of the Nonprofit Technology Network and Business of Software. He holds a bachelor's in computer science from Messiah College and is a pursuing a Master's of Religion in Old Testament from Evangelical Theological Seminary. He and his wife Cre reside in Mechanicsburg, PA.