November 5, 2020
ELAM Holds Virtual Graduation for
Class of 2020

ELAM held its first ever virtual graduation and closing circle last Tuesday evening. To celebrate the outstanding achievements of the 25th anniversary class of ELAM that has been through such a tumultuous fellowship year, it was fitting to have Catherine Morrison, JD, negotiation and conflict management expert and a treasured ELAM faculty member, address the class. Catherine’s message, relaying the lessons she has learned through her experience as a record-holding power lifter, which you can read here, resonates for all of us. Thank you to Catherine for your powerful words, and congratulations once again to the ELAM class of 2020.

25th Anniversary Event Cancelled

We are sorry to announce that we are cancelling our 25th anniversary celebration, which had been rescheduled to April 23, 2021. Due to the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic and the likely continued restrictions around travel and gathering in 2021, we feel that this is the most prudent course of action. For more information, please read our letter announcing this decision.

Application Open November 1
Application to the 2021-2022 ELAM Fellowship year opened on November 1. As ELUMs, you are often our greatest champions in spreading the word about ELAM in your own institutions and beyond. We are once again asking you to assist us in recruiting a new cohort of outstanding women to apply by sharing information on ELAM through your networks, email listservs, and with your colleagues.

More information and access to the application are available on our website. Applications are due by January 8, 2021, and recommendations and nominations are due by January 29. 
New ELAM Specialty Listservs
We created ELAM/ELUM specialty listservs in these areas:
Dental
Public Health 
Cancer Research
Emergency Medicine
ObGyn (recently added)
 
To join a specific listserv or if there is a specialty listserv you would like us to create, please contact bro29@drexel.edu.
ELUM News
The Center for Women in Medicine and Science (CWIMS) at the University of Minnesota Medical School, led by Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH (ELAM ‘20) was awarded the “Emerging Leadership Award for an Organization” by the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Group on Women in Medicine and Science. CWIMS mission is to support and facilitate leadership and professional development opportunities to achieve gender equity, diversity, and inclusion. Under Dr. Berge’s leadership, CWIMS collaborates with faculty members across the UMN medical school to co-create and carry out their gender equity initiatives. Organizing CWIMS was Dr. Berge’s ELAM institutional action project.

Coleen Cunningham, MD (ELAM ’18), has accepted a dual appointment position as both the chair for the University of California Irvine Department of Pediatrics and as senior vice president and pediatrician-in-chief for CHOC Children’s. Her appointment is effective March 1, 2021.
 
Kelli Bullard Dunn, M.D., (ELAM ’13) was recognized by the University of California San Francisco Naffziger Surgical Alumni Association as an honoree in their annual Loupes Ceremony.

Geri Fox, MD, MHPE (ELAM ‘15) received the 2020 Distinguished Educator Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She was the keynote speaker on October 19 at the Training and Education Summit during the AACAP Annual Meeting.

Susan L. Furth, MD, PhD (ELAM ’16) is the winner of the 2020 FOCUS Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine.

Sara Jo Grethlein, M.D. (ELAM ’07), has been named as the new Executive Medical Director of the Swedish Cancer Institute and will be starting January 4, 2021.

AAMC CFAS News, October 30, 2020:
Colleen Koch, MD (ELAM ’12), has been named dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, becoming the first woman to hold the appointment in the school’s 64-year history. Dr. Koch is the Mark C. Rogers professor and chair of the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at Johns Hopkins Medicine, and she is also anesthesiologist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She was additionally an AAMC Council of Deans Fellow in the 2018-19 program year. Dr. Koch succeeds J. Adrian Tyndall, MD, who has served as interim dean of the medical school since July 2018 and is a former CFAS representative. Dr. Koch will begin her new role in Florida on Jan. 10, 2021.

Purnima Kumar, BDS, MS, PhD (ELAM ’20) was recently selected as a recipient of the William J. Gies Award for Outstanding Achievement by a Dental Educator, presented by the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) Gies Foundation.
ELUM Articles
Teaching and Learning in Medicine, Volume 32, 2020, Issue 4:
Heeyoung Han, Reed Williams, Susan Hingle, Debra L. Klamen, Gary M. Rull, Ted Clark & James Daniels

JAMA Pediatrics, October 19, 2020:
Alisa Khan, MD, MPH; H. Shonna Yin, MD, MS; Cindy Brach, MPP; Dionne A. Graham, PhD; Matthew W. Ramotar, BA; David N. Williams, PhD; Nancy Spector, MD; Christopher P. Landrigan, MD, MPH; Benard P. Dreyer, MD; for the Patient and Family Centered I-PASS Health Literacy Subcommittee

Annals of Internal Medicine, October 27, 2020:
Oguzhan Alagoz, PhD, Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS, Brian W. Patterson, MD, MPH, Matthew Churpek, MD, MPH, PhD, Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD

Articles of Note
Knowledge@Wharton, October 21, 2020:
September 28 marked Erika James’ 90th day as dean of the Wharton School. Here, she reflects on starting the position remotely amid the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons she has learned about being a new leader.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, October 22, 2020:
A look at the pros and cons of jumping from an institution that appears to be a sinking ship, given all that is happening in higher-education land.
Inside Higher Ed, October 27, 2020:
Ralph A. Gigliotti shares the results of a new study that reveals that the disruptions of the recent months have significantly exacerbated the challenges beleaguering department chairs.

Cathy Marie Ouellette offers the insights she has gained as a new department chair during the pandemic.
STAT, October 27, 2020:
For nearly 10 hours on a recent Saturday, Akiko Iwasaki was feted at a virtual gathering celebrating her 50th birthday and the 20th anniversary of her Yale lab. Former and current colleagues showered her with gifts, reminisced about outings to bars, Six Flags, and campsites, and answered trivia questions (her favorite color is purple — Iwasaki is a huge Prince fan).
But at about hour eight, the festive mood turned solemn. During toasts from her mentees, who thanked her for counseling them on how to respond to critics, Iwasaki shared how she’s still fending them off herself. She said a retired male professor, who was a former chief of surgery at a different university, had recently berated her in an email over a paper she wrote in Nature Medicine that called out toxic principal investigators in academia and charted how to dismantle hostile workplaces.

Knowledge@Wharton, October 28, 2020:
Not everyone is a born leader, but a new book by Wharton’s Michael Platt says that neuroscience can provide the tools to become one.

AAMC CFAS News, October 30, 2020:
The Washington Post covered Londyn Robinson, a medical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School who started a movement a few months back that raised the curtain on some of the sexism women in academic medicine face: in this case, perceived “unprofessional behavior” — that amounted to nothing more than wearing bikini swimsuits — as noted in a since-retracted paper in the Journal of Vascular Surgery. Her attention to the issue launched the #MedBikini hashtag, which inspired thousands of tweets from women doctors, scientists, and other professionals from around the world showing them in swimwear. “We’re in medicine,” Robinson said. “This is not a Miss America contest.”

Inside Higher Ed, October 30, 2020:
In academe, the tenure clock is ticking at an even faster rate than your biological one, so which are you going to heed? Emily Van Duyne asks.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, November 3, 2020:
The old ways of running administrative searches haven’t exactly produced the diverse pool of leaders that higher education claims to want.
Positions
Chief of Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, University of California Los Angeles Hospital & Clinic System. ELUMs at UCLA are Carol Bennett, Ines Boechat, Sherin Devaskar, Sarah Dry, Lynn Gordon, Ming Guo, Sarah Kilpatrick, Margareta Pisarska, Nancy Sicotte, Margi Stuber, Areti Tillou, and Barbara Van de Wiele (SOM); Kathryn Atchison and Diana Messadi (SOD).

Senior Associate Dean for Research, University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences. ELUMs at the university are Linda Speer, Marijo Tamburrino, and Gretchen Tietjen (COM).

Chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Washington School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Chris Abrass, Ginny Broudy, Lorrie Langdale, J. Lee Nelson, Catherine Otto, Leslie Walker-Harding, and Bessie Young (SOM); Sara Gordon and Rebecca Slayton (SOD).

Chair, Department of Psychiatry, Billings Clinic, Bozeman, MT.

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center School of Medicine. ELUMs at UNM are Loretta Cordova de Ortega, Melvina McCabe, Martha McGrew, Leslie Morrison, Tassy Parker, Karlett Parra, Valerie Romero-Leggott, Anne Simpson, Aimee Smidt, Carolyn Voss, and Bronwyn Wilson (SOM); Tracie Collins (College of Population Health).

Medical Director, Stefanie Spielman Comprehensive Breast Center, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute. ELUMs Carol Bradford, Karen Calhoun, Linda Cripe, Wendy Frankel, Deborah Larsen, Jacqueline Olayiwola, Laura Phieffer, Kristina Reber, Alison Walker, and Judith Westman

Chair, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Texas Tech Health Sciences School of Medicine Regional Campus, Amarillo.

Vice Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles. See above for ELUMs at UCLA.

Medical Director, Microbiology, The Cleveland Clinic. An ELUM at the Cleveland Clinic is Karen Murray.

Director, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. ELUMs at UAB are Vera Bittner, Cynthia Brown, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Jackie Feldman, Mona Fouad, Nita Limdi, Amie McLain, Sarah Morgan, and Jane Schwebke (SOM); Jean O'Neal and Michelle Robinson (SOD).

Chief of Surgical Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center – Jefferson Health. ELUMs at Jefferson are Gretchen Diemer, Sharon Lehman, Carol Lippa, Ana Maria Lopez, Sue Menko, Edith Mitchell, Karen Novielli, Vijay Rao, Susan Rosenthal.


A number of positions were submitted by the search firm Witt/Kieffer:
[Note that ELUM Joyce De Leo is a Principal in Academic Medicine and Health Sciences]


Vice Dean for Academics and Chair for the Department of Medical Education, The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. An ELUM at the university is Beth Nelson.

Director, Division of Neonatology, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. ELUMs at Rutgers are Maral Mouradian, Kathy Scotto, and Carol Terregino (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School); Vivian Bellofatto, Chantal Brazeau,Nancy Connell, Gita Lamba, and Maria Soto-Greene (New Jersey Medical School); Nanci Tofsky (SODM).

Director, Cancer Center and Division Chief for Hematology and Oncology, University of Vermont College of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Elizabeth Bonney, Beth Kirkpatrick, and Debra Leonard (COM).

Division Chief, Gastroenterology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. ELUMs at TTUHSC are Sharmila Dissanaike, Jannette Dufour, Betsy Jones, Cynthia Jumper, Rakhshanda Layeequr-Rahman, Patti Patterson, Kim Peck, and Leslie Shen (SOM); Sireesha Reddy (Paul L. Foster SOM).

 
A number of positions were submitted by the search firm Merritt Hawkins:
 
Medical Director, General Radiology Services, Oregon Health and Sciences University. ELUMs at the university are Sharon Anderson, Amanda Clark, Renee Edwards, Jeanne-Marie Guise, Melissa Haendel, Donna Hansel, and Leslie Kahl (SOM); Phyllis Beemsterboer and Pam Hughes (SOD).
 
Chief of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Yale University School of Medicine. ELUMs at Yale are Nita Ahuja, Ferne Braveman, Nancy Brown, Anees Chagpar, Gail D'Onofrio, Rosemarie Fisher, Barbara Kazmierczak, Diane Krause, Carolyn Mazure, Ismene Petrakis, Marina Picciotto, Carrie Redlich, Lynn Tanoue, and Kim Yonkers (SOM); Melinda Irwin and Melinda Pettigrew (SOPH).
 
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of California, Davis School of Medicine. ELUMs at UC Davis are Allison Brashear, Colleen Clancy, Diana Farmer, Ellen Gold, Lydia Howell, Jesse Joad, Karen Kelly, Nancy Lane, Susan Murin, Tina Palmieri, Ruth Shim, Sandhya Venugopal, and Amparo Villablanca.

Section Chief, Geriatric Medicine, University of California Davis School of Medicine. ELUMs at UC Davis are Allison Brashear, Colleen Clancy, Diana Farmer, Ellen Gold, Lydia Howell, Jesse Joad, Helen Kales, Karen Kelly, Nancy Lane, Susan Murin, Tina Palmieri, Ruth Shim, Sandhya Venugopal, Amparo Villablanca, and Rachel Whitmer (SOM).

Division Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology, University of New Mexico. ELUMs at UNM are Loretta Cordova de Ortega, Melvina McCabe, Martha McGrew, Leslie Morrison, Tassy Parker, Karlett Parra, Valerie Romero-Leggott, Anne Simpson, Aimee Smidt, Carolyn Voss, and Bronwyn Wilson (SOM); Tracie Collins (COPH).

Division Chief, Pediatric Endocrinology, University of New Mexico. See above for ELUMs at UNM.

Medical Director Hospitalist Program, University of California, Davis School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Allison Brashear, Colleen Clancy, Diana Farmer, Ellen Gold, Lydia Howell, Jesse Joad, Helen Kales, Karen Kelly, Nancy Lane, Susan Murin, Tina Palmieri, Ruth Shim, Sandhya Venugopal, Amparo Villablanca, and Rachel Whitmer.

Vice Chair for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care, University of California, San Francisco. ELUMs at the university are Claire Brindis, Marcelle Cedars, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Linda Giudice, Jane Koehler, Catherine Lucey, Amy Murtha, Mary-Ann Shafer, Julie Ann Sosa, and Louise Walter (SOM); Yvonne Kapila and Caroline Shiboski (SOD).

Technical Director of Cell Therapies Facility, Moffitt Cancer Center/University of South Florida. ELUMs at USF are Terri Ashmeade, Deborah DeWaay, Julie Djeu, Patricia Emmanuel, Catherine Lynch, Lynn Moscinski, Kailie Shaw, and Lynn Wecker (COM).

Vice Chair Molecular Pathology, Moffitt Cancer Center/University of South Florida. See above for ELUMs at USF.

Vice Chair of Education – Anesthesiology, University of Iowa. ELUMs at the university are Lois Geist, Isabella Grumbach, Donna Hammond, Loreen Herwaldt, Sue O’Dorisio, Susan Schultz, Debra Schwinn, Debra Waldron, Patricia Winokur, and Catherine Woodman (COM); Betsy Chrischilles and Corinne Peek-Asa (COPH).

Director of Cytopathology, Moffitt Cancer Center. An ELUM at the institution is Karen Fields.

 
The following positions were submitted by the search firm Korn Ferry:

Chair, Department of Neurology, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. ELUMs at the university are Ilana Cass, Jocelyn Chertoff, Joanne Conroy, Leslie Fall, and Barbara Jobst.
 
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
   
Director, Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute / Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center. ELUMs at the university are Emelia Benjamin, Deborah Cotton, Sharon Levine (SOM); Judith Jones and Leslie Will (SODM); Deborah Bowen and Lisa Sullivan (SOPH).
 
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Keck School of Medicine of USC. ELUMs and Fellows at the Keck School of Medicine are Zea Borok, Michele Kipke and Kathe Nelson. 
 
Chair, Department of Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY.
 
Medical Director, Phase I Program, Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center - Jefferson Health/Sarah Cannon Research Institute. ELUMs at Jefferson are Sharon Lehman, Carol Lippa, Ana Maria Lopez, Sue Menko, Edith Mitchell, Karen Novielli, Vijay Rao, and Susan Rosenthal (Medical College). 

Director, Division of Urogynecology and Pelvic Reconstructive Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. ELUMs at UAB are Vera Bittner, Cynthia Brown, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Jackie Feldman, Mona Fouad, Nita Limdi, Amie McLain, Sarah Morgan, and Jane Schwebke (SOM); Jean O'Neal (SOD).

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. See above for ELUMs at the university.
 
Chief Quality and Value Officer, Dartmouth Hitchcock Health. ELUMs at Dartmouth are Ilana Cass, Jocelyn Chertoff, Joanne Conroy, Leslie Fall, and Barbara Jobst.


The following positions were submitted by the search firm Grant Cooper/Diversified Search:
 
Chair, Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.
 
Vice Dean for Educational Affairs and Curriculum, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.
 
Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. ELUMs at UTHSC San Antonio are Robin Brey, Sandra Burge, Chiquita Collins, Deb Conway, Carlayne Jackson, Ambika Mathur, Jan Patterson, Jennifer Potter, Paula Shireman, Gail Tomlinson, and Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).

Senior Medical Director, UW Health Clinical Cancer Services, University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center, UW Health.

Vice Chair for Primary Care, Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

Chief, Division of Cardiology, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, Lehigh Valley Health Network. Affiliated with University of South Florida Morsani School of Medicine. See above for ELUMs at USF. 

Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Texas Health San Antonio. ELUMs at UT San Antonio are Robin Brey, Sandra Burge, Carlayne Jackson, Jan Patterson, Jennifer Potter, Paula Shireman, Gail Tomlinson, and Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).

Chief, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. ELUMs at Wake Forest are Martha Alexander-Miller, Lynn Anthony, Sonia Crandall, Debra Diz, Kristie Foley, Julie Freischlag, Amy McMichael, Katherine Poehling, Sally Shumaker, and Lynne Wagenknecht (SOM).

Division Chief of Pediatric Rheumatology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. ELUMs at the university are Mei Ho, Gloria Richard-Davis, and Sara Tariq (COM); Wendy Nembhard (COPH).

Director, Medical Oncology, Head and Neck Cancers, Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. ELUMs at UT Southwestern are Robin Jarrett, Shawna Nesbitt, and Helen Yin.


Director, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health San Antonio. ELUMs at UTHSC San Antonio are Robin Brey, Sandra Burge, Carlayne Jackson, Jan Patterson, Jennifer Potter, Paula Shireman, Gail Tomlinson, Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).
 
Director of the Alzheimer's Disease Center and Chief, Section of Behavioral Neurology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. ELUMs at UT Southwestern are Robin Jarrett, Shawna Nesbitt, and Helen Yin.

Associate Director, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research of the Children's National Health System Research Institute in Washington, DC.

Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Texas Health San Antonio. ELUMs at the institution are Robin Brey, Sandra Burge, Chiquita Collins, Deborah Conway, Carlayne Jackson, Ambika Mathur, Jan Patterson, Jennifer Potter, Paula Shireman, Gail Tomlinson, and Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).


For all job posting requests, please email: elamcareers@drexel.edu.
The Last Word
The Guardian, October 30, 2020:
Officials in Florida say woman insisted on filling out ballot in person instead of mailing it later