October 12 , 2017 
ELAM News


Register Now for ELAM's 2018 Alumnae
Professional Development Program
 
Registration is now open for ELAM's 2018 Alumnae Professional Development Program, Leadership During Challenging Times: Building Resilience and Versatility. Scheduled for January 11 - 13 at The Four Seasons in Denver, Colorado, this year's program welcomes ELUMs to strengthen their skills in communication, philanthropy and organizational change. ELAM's executive director, Nancy Spector, and former directors, Page Morahan, Rosalyn Richman, and Diane Magrane, welcome you to this three-day event to connect alumnae across the nation and to continue to strengthen the leadership skill-building begun during the fellowship. For more information on the program and to register, please visit our website.
 
The early-bird discounted registration deadline is
Wednesday, November 1, so be sure to register today!
 
 
 
ELAM's Newly Designed Website is Live!
 
ELAM is excited to announce that our redesigned website is live! We welcome your feedback as we continue to work on improving the website. This anonymous survey should only take a few minutes, and your answers will help us understand whether the website is meeting your needs and expectations. Thank you in advance for taking the time to share your feedback with us!


Join Us for an ELAM Reception at the AAMC

ELAM is pleased to once again be hosting a reception in conjunction with the Association of American Medical College's Annual Meeting. The ELAM reception is being held on November 5 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the Farimont Copley Plaza in Boston, right across the street from the AAMC meeting. The ELAM reception is always an excellent opportunity for ELUMs to meet new faces and reconnect with previous classmates, colleagues, and friends! ELUMs in the area not attending the AAMC meeting are also welcome to attend. Please visit the event webpage for more information and to RSVP. RSVPs are requested by October 23rd.
 
Hope to see you all there!
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Positions

Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Peace Health, Vancouver, WA. Submitted by Millican Solutions LLC.
 
Senior Associate Dean for Educational Affairs, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the university are Viv Budnik, Joanna Cain, Debbie DeMarco, Ellen Gravallese, Julia Johnson, Jean King, Mary Lee, Katherine Luzuriaga, Gyongyi Szabo, and Luanne Thorndyke.
 
Chair, Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa; Carver College of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the university are Lois Geist, Donna Hammond, Loreen Herwaldt, Susan Johnson, Sue O'Dorisio, Susan Schultz, Debra Schwinn, Debra Waldron, Patricia Winokur, Cynthia Wong, and Catherine Woodman (COM); Lily Garcia (COD); Betsy Chrischilles, and Corinne Peek-Asa (COPH).
 
Chair, Department of Medicine, Guthrie Clinic, Pennsylvania and New York. Submitted by executive search firm Korn Ferry.
 
Chair, Department of Psychiatry, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. See above for ELUMs at the university.
 
Chair, Department of Surgery, Tufts Medical Center. Submitted by executive search firm Phillips DiPisa. ELUMs at Tufts University are Karen Freund, Lindsey Grossman, and Simin Meydani (SOM); Yun Saksena (SODM).
 
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the university are Sylvia Smith and Martha Tingen.
 
Chief, Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Institutes of Health. ELUMs at the NIH are
 
Chair of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine. Submitted by Witt/Kieffer. ELUMs at the university are Setsuko Chambers, Mindy Fain, Ana Maria Lopez, Kathryn Reed, Taylor Riall, and Anne Wright (COM); Sue Pepin (COM - Phoenix).
 
Medical Director for the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, The School of Medicine of Stony Brook University. An ELUM at the university is Latha Chandran.
 
Director, Fellowship Program, Stony Brook Medicine. See above for an ELUM at Stony Brook University.
 
Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care, Medical College of Georgia of Augusta University. Submitted by the institution. See above for ELUMs at the university.
 
Chief, Division of Cardiology and Co-Executive Director of the Heart Institute, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles/University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Submitted by ELUM Michele Kipke. Another ELUM at USC is Mandy Termuhlen.
 
                   
A number of positions were submitted by executive search firm Merritt Hawkins:  
     
Associate Dean for Health Equity, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. An ELUM at UT Austin is Beth Nelson.

Chief Medical Officer, Eagleville Hospital, Eagleville, PA.
 
Endowed Chair, Type I Diabetes , Adventist Health, Orlando, FL.

Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine.

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Ellen Cosgrove (SOM); Georgia Dounis and Karen West (SODM); Mimi Bar-on, Vani Dandolu, and Deborah Kuhls (Reno SOM).

Medical Director & Chief of Pediatric Surgery , Stanford University School of Medicine. ELUMs at Stanford are Juli Barr, Constance Chu, Iris Gibbs, Sabine Girod, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Mary Hawn, Paula Hillard, Marlene Rabinovitch, and Sherry Wren (SOM).
 
Division Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine, East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine. An ELUM at the university is Theresa Lura.
 
Division Chief of Maternal Fetal Medicine, SUNY-Upstate Medical Center. ELUMs at SUNY-Upstate are Leslie Kohman and Margaret Turk.
 
Director, Mulva Clinic for the Neurosciences, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. An ELUM at UT Austin is Beth Nelson.   
 
Director, Division of Pediatric Genetics and Metabolism , University of Minnesota School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Lynne Bemis, Iris Borowsky, Linda Carson, Maria Hordinsky, Nancy Raymond, Betsy Seaquist, Jill Siegfried, Paula Termuhlen, and Ezgi Tiryaki (SOM); Judith Buchanan and Sheila Riggs (SOD); Beth Virnig (SOPH).

Division Chief, Department of Neurology, Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders, Duke University School of Medicine. ELUMs at Duke are Ann Brown, Sharon Hull, Mary Klotman, Catherine Kuhn, Chris Marx, Amy Murtha, Ann Reed, Vicki Seewaldt, Julie Ann Sosa, Marilyn Telen, and Debara Tucci.

Chief of Pediatric Hematology Oncology, Dell Medical School of The University of Texas at Austin/Dell Children's Medical Center. An ELUM at UT Austin is Beth Nelson.

Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV.
 
Director, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, University of Utah School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Mary Beckerle, Carrie Byington, Wendy Chapman, Rena D'Souza, Catherine deVries, Kathleen Digre, Evelyn Gopez, Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, Harriet Hopf, Vicki Judd, Mary Murray, and Monica Vetter (SOM).
 
Chief of Bariatric Surgery, SUNY Upstate College of Medicine. ELUMs at SUNY Upstate are Leslie Kohman and Margaret Turk.

Director of Dermatological Surgery, University of Minnesota. See above for ELUMs at the university.

Director, Residency Program, Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV.
 
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency, Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV.
 
Program Director, Psychiatry Residency, Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV.
 
Program Director, Orthopedic Surgery Residency, Valley Health System, Las Vegas, NV.
 
Division Head, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Oregon Health and Science University. ELUMs at the university are Sharon Anderson, Amanda Clark, Jeanne-Marie Guise, and Leslie Kahl (SOM; Phyllis Beemsterboer (SOD).
 
Division Chief, Geriatrics, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine.
    
Vice Chief, Critical Care, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. ELUMs at USC are Michele Kipke and Mandy Termuhlen (SOM).
 

 
For all job posting requests, please email: elamjobs@drexel.edu.


                          
ELUM News
 
Marjorie Jenkins, M.D. (ELAM '09) and Jane Reckelhoff, Ph.D. (ELAM '14), are on the editorial board of the new journal, Gender and the Genome , which "explores how the new science of the 21st century is profoundly influenced by biological sex."
 
Deb Houry, M.D., M.P.H. (ELAM '14) testified on "Federal Response to the Opioid Epidemic" with Elinore F. McCance-Katz, Assistant Secretary for Substance Use and Mental Health; Francis Collins, Director NIH; and Scott Gottlieb, FDA Commissioner before the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee on October 5th.  You can view the video of the testimony here .

 

If you have news about yourself, your ELAM Learning Community, or other ELUMs that you would like to share in the Edge, please send it to elam@drexel.edu.
 
ELUM Articles
 
AAMC CFAS News, September 29, 2017:
Ambika Mathur, PhD, dean of Wayne State University Graduate School, opened up about her transition from an academic career to being a full-time mom of twins in a Science article titled "My second acts." "[I]n my attempt to be superwoman, I was shortchanging my kids and my own 'mommy' experiences," wrote Dr. Mathur.

 
Academic Medicine, Volume 92, Issue 10, October 2017:
Bonham, Ann C. PhD; Alberti, Philip M. PhD
 
Earnest, Mark A.; Williams, Jason; Aagaard, Eva M
 
Hall, Alison K. PhD; Mills, Sherry L. MD, MPH; Lund, P. Kay PhD
 
Freel, Stephanie A. PhD, PMP; Smith, Paige C. MEd; Burns, Ebony N. MHA; Downer, Joanna B. PhD; Brown, Ann J. MD, MHS; Dewhirst, Mark W. DVM, PhD
 
Lingard, Lorelei PhD; Zhang, Peter; Strong, Michael MD, PhD; Steele, Margaret MD; Yoo, John MD; Lewis, James MD, PhD
 
Guthrie, Susan PhD; Krapels, Joachim PhD; Adams, Alexandra MD, PhD; Alberti, Philip PhD; Bonham, Ann PhD; Garrod, Bryn PhD; Esmond, Sarah MS; Scott, Caitlin MS; Cochrane, Gavin MSc; Wooding, Steven PhD
 
 
Journal of Dental Education, Volume 81, Number 10, October 2017:
Andrew I. Spielman, Elizabeth Maas and Elise S. Eisenberg

 
Academic Medicine, Published Ahead-of-Print, September 26, 2017:
Heather Yeo, MD, MHS, Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH, and Lisa Kern, MD, MPH
 
Joanna M. Cain, MD, Marianne E. Felice, MD, Judith K. Ockene, PhD, Med, MA, Robert J. Milner, PhD, John L. Congdon, Stephen Tosi, MD, and Luanne E. Thorndyke, MD
 

Articles of Note

Harvard Business Review:
Reducing isolation at work is good for business.
 
Harvard Business Review, November 10, 2016:
The relationship between the two is not a continuum.
 
Harper's Bazaar, September 27, 2017:
Emotional labor is the unpaid job men still don't understand.
 
Inside Higher Ed, September 28, 2017:
Unfortunately, presidents have not spoken out or engaged in the debates about essentially all the key issues confronting colleges and universities today, argues Philip G. Altbach.
 
The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, September 29, 2017:
Clothing is just one more minefield for female graduate students that their male counterparts do not encounter in the same way.
 
Center for Creative Leadership, Leading Effectively, September 29, 2017:
CCL President John R. Ryan explores why leaders should be like basketball superstar Stephen Curry.
 
Women are eager to lead. Is your organization helping or hindering them?
 
Fast Company, September 29, 2017:
GE Vice Chair Beth Comstock explains how remaining "carefully uninformed" helps her see the big picture, no matter how complex a challenge becomes.
 
Inc., September 29, 2017:
 There's a reason networking events don't work.
 
 
 
Calls for Application, Nomination, Etc.
 
A second call has been issued for the Anna Fischer-Dackelmann Visiting Professorship.
The position is meant for women faculty from schools of medicine, and the visiting professorship position is organized by the Executive MBA Program of the Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology as well as the Faculty of Medicine, from the University of Zurich (UZH) in Switzerland. Click here for more information on the visiting professorship and application process. The application deadline is November 15th, 2017.
 
AAMC News, October 4, 2017:
Applications Now Accepted for AAMC Chief Medical Officers Leadership Academy
The AAMC Chief Medical Officers (CMO) Leadership Academy is an 18-month executive training program developed to enhance the administrative knowledge and skills of CMOs who are in their first three years of the position, as well as senior physician leaders who are interested in pursuing this career path. Designed by CMOs at academic medical centers and teaching hospitals, the program uses a blended-learning approach that combines in-person sessions, elearning, and independent study, as well as peer and executive mentorship. Applications are now being accepted for the 2018-2019 class, which begins on Jan. 18 (the deadline to apply is Dec. 15).
   

The Last Word
 
AAMC CFAS News, September 29, 2017:
And finally, it turns out multitasking truly is for the birds. If you're one of those people who wishes you could more effectively complete a few things at once, perhaps you should look to pigeons for inspiration. German researchers who published their findings in the journal Current Biology found that pigeons are not only at least as effective as people at multitasking, but in some instances our feathered friends are superior in this regard because they have six times more nerve cells per cubic millimeter of brain than you and me, reports Science Daily. Here's to bird brains!
 
 
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