October 8, 2020
Making an Impact
Institutional Action Projects (IAPs) are the capstone of the Fellowship year. Designed to expand leadership skills and institutional visibility, they also meet an organizational goal or need - making an impact on the Fellows' institutions and beyond. This year's class had the added challenge of working on their IAPs during a global pandemic, and yet they rose to this challenge. You can now view the impressive array of projects presented by the 25th anniversary class on our website. Congratulations again to this outstanding class of Fellows, on pushing through with projects that are truly making an impact.
New ELAM Specialty Listservs
We have created ELAM/ELUM specialty listservs in these areas:
Dental
Public Health 
Cancer Research
Emergency Medicine
 
To join a specific listserv or if there is a specialty listserv you would like us to create, please contact bro29@drexel.edu.
In Case You Missed It...
In case you missed our virtual Award Nomination Writing Workshop, you can now view it online. You can also view the sample letter that was used for discussion. We look forward to seeing you at future webinars!
Join Us for a Women on Boards Webinar
Women on Boards Webinar
October 21, 2020
8:00 p.m. EDT
Join us for this virtual event to learn more about roles and responsibilities and how to enhance your candidacy for a board position.
We'll cover women's current standing on corporate boards, basics of good board governance, types of boards, what skills boards say you need, tips on enhancing your candidacy for a board position, and host a panel featuring success stories from:
o Vicki Kramer
o Lily Marks
o Paula Jones

Register to join us here.
An ELAM Open House
This year, we are pleased to be offering an ELAM Virtual Open House on October 26, 2020 at 8 pm Eastern. This event will serve to answer any questions about ELAM's application process, requirements for applicants and expectations for Fellows, and any other questions from potential applicants or those seeking to nominate someone. You can register for the event here.

We ask that you please consider passing this information on to any of your colleagues interested in ELAM, and to your institution's Faculty Affairs and/or Development Officers and Women in Medicine Groups. Thank you in advance for your help in spreading the good word of ELAM!
ELUM News
Congratulations to ELAM’s Executive Director Nancy Spector, M.D. (ELAM ‘10) for being honored with the 2020 Group on Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Award for an Individual

Chiquita Collins, Ph.D. (ELAM ’20) was appointed as Associate Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Health Equity at UT Health San Antonio.

Maya Hammoud, MD (ELAM ’19) was part of the American Medical Association’s COVID-19 daily video update: Gender equity issues in health care and during the pandemic.

Elizabeth Jacobs, MD (ELAM ‘19) is the new Vice President of Research at Maine Medical Center Research Institute.

Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil. (ELAM ‘20) was honored as LEAD’s 2020 Woman Oncologist of the Year.

Joyce Lloyd, Ph.D. (ELAM ’19) received the 2020 Women in Science, Dentistry and Medicine Professional Achievement Award from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine on September 30, 2020. This annual award recognizes women who are a role model and mentor, promoting the professional development of other women faculty.

Alyson McGregor, M.D. (ELAM ’21) has been awarded the American Medical Women’s Association’s (AMWA) Lila A. Wallis Award for 2021. Susan Hingle, M.D. (ELAM 2019) has been awarded AMWA’s Elizabeth Blackwell Award for 2021.
 
Nwando Olayiwola, M.D., M.P.H. (ELAM ‘21) received the “Family Physicians Who are Changing our World” award bestowed by the Family Medicine Education Consortium, Inc.

AAMC CFAS News, September 25, 2020:
Sallie Permar, MD, PhD (ELAM ’19), has been appointed chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine and pediatrician-in-chief at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Komansky Children’s Hospital, effective Dec. 1. Dr. Permar serves as professor of pediatrics, immunology, and molecular genetics and microbiology; associate dean of physician-scientist development; and founding director of the Children’s Health and Discovery Institute at the Duke University School of Medicine.
 
Jennifer Potter, Ph.D., M.P.H. (ELAM ’19) was appointed as Associate Vice President for South Texas Public Health Initiatives at UT Health San Antonio.

Shlomit Schaal, MD, PhD (ELAM ’18), has been appointed as the new President of UMass Memorial Medical Group, effective December 1, 2020.

Melissa Simon, M.D., M.P.H. (ELAM ’14) received a Mentor of the Year award from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine’s Medical Faculty Council.
ELUM Articles
JAMA Network Open, September 15, 2020:
Virginia A. Brown, MA, PhD; René Salazar, MD; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MPP
The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 133, Issue 10, October 2020:
Mona N. Fouad, MD, MPH, John Ruffin, PhD, Selwyn M. Vickers, MD, FACS

Katherine C. Chretien, Jaya M. Raj, Reeni A. Abraham, Paul Aronowitz, Donna J. Astiz, Shobhina G. Chheda, Ernie L. Esquivel, Maria M. Garcia, Nadia Ismail, Susan Lane, Suzanne E. McLaughlin, Anne Pereira, Amy W. Shaheen, Abby L. Spencer, Kimberly M. Tartaglia, Lisa L. Willett
Academic Medicine, Volume 95, Issue 10, October 2020:
Jagsi, Reshma MD, DPhil; Spector, Nancy D. MD
 
Valantine, Hannah A. MD

Flotte, Terence R. MD; Larkin, Anne C. MD; Fischer, Melissa A. MD; Chimienti, Sonia N. MD; DeMarco, Deborah M. MD; Fan, Pang-Yen MD; Collins, Michael F. MD

Bellini, Lisa M. MD; Kaplan, Brian MD; Fischel, Janet E. PhD; Meltzer, Carolyn MD; Peterson, Pamela MD; Sonnino, Roberta E. MD

Articles of Note
Inside Higher Ed, September 23, 2020:
As part of the Leading Diversity at Work series, Wharton’s Stephanie Creary talks with Kwasi Mitchell of Deloitte Consulting about how executives, middle managers and employees can contribute to diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Center for Creative Leadership, Leading Effectively, September 23, 2020:
 If you find yourself fixating on past events or imagining scary future scenarios, you might be ruminating.

The New York Times, September 26, 2020:
Improvements in gender equality in the workplace may be another casualty of the coronavirus, as women find their place in the work force more at risk.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Academe Today, September 28, 2020:
A presidential directive reignites debate around diversity training and whether it does any good.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Academe Today, September 29, 2020:
Overwhelm professors with too much institutional data and you cause confusion. But giving too little only sparks suspicion.

The Chronicle of Higher Ed, Academe Today, September 30, 2020:
The fall semester promises to be as stressful as the spring. What can you do as a department chair to lead in a compassionate way?

Knowledge@Wharton, September 30, 2020:
A high number of working mothers are leaving their jobs during the pandemic, which is exacerbating gender inequality. Solving the problem starts with better policies to support them, Wharton’s Janice Bellace says.

Fast Company, October 1, 2020:
The medical industry agrees that the more time doctors spend with patients, the better the health outcomes. But that way of working is costly for female primary care doctors.

Inside Higher Ed, October 1, 2020:
Administrators should consider the “feelings balance” of faculty members as a way to help build a positive community on their campus, writes Thomas J. Pfaff.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, October 2, 2020:
Covid-19 means this fall is unlike any other in academe, and so is the experience of settling into a new leadership position
Calls for Application, Nomination, Etc.
AAMC CFAS News, October 2, 2020:
The NIH announced a prize for enhancing faculty gender diversity. The Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity seeks to recognize institutions whose biomedical and behavioral science departments, centers, or divisions have achieved sustained improvement in gender diversity. The fund for the total prize is $500,000 and the deadline for submissions is April 16, 2021.
Positions
Clinical Campus Dean, AnMed Health, Medical University of South Carolina. ELUMs at MUSC are Kathleen Brady, Nancy DeMore, Susan Harvey, Brenda Hoffman, Flo Hutchison, Donna Johnson, Donna Kern, Darlene Shaw, Cindy Wright, and Ozlem Yilmaz (COM); Betsy Pilcher (CODM).

Chief Executive Officer, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics. ELUMs at the university are Mary Beckerle, Wendy Chapman, Catherine deVries, Kathleen Digre, Rena D'Souza,Angie Fagerlin, Evelyn Gopez, Rachel Hess, Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, Harriet Hopf, Vicki Judd, Sara Lamb, Nancy Murphy, Mary Murray, Neli Ulrich, and Monica Vetter.

Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. An ELUM at Cedars-Sinai is Christine Albert.

Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. See above for the ELUM at Cedars-Sinai.

Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Michigan Medical School. ELUMs at the university are Michelle Caird, Sally Camper, Ruth Carlos, Rebecca Cunningham, Eva Feldman, Dee Fenner, Carmen Green, Margaret Gyetko, Hope Haefner, Maya Hammoud, Diane Harper, Michele Heisler, Reshma Jagsi, Ella Kazerooni, Eve Kerr, Dawn Kleindorfer, Julie Lumeng, Donna Martin, Karin Muraszko, Valerie Opipari, Michelle Riba, Caroline Richardson, Catherine Spires, and Denise Tate (Medical School); Nisha D'Silva, Margherita Fontana, Jan Ching-Chun Hu, Lynn Johnson, Marilyn Woolfolk (SOD); Bhramar Mukherjee (SOPH).

Chief of Neurology, VA Boston Healthcare System (affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School). ELUMs at Boston are Emelia Benjamin, Deborah Cotton, and Sharon Levine (SOM); Judith Jones and Leslie Will (SODM); Deborah Bowen and Lisa Sullivan (SOPH). ELUMs at Harvard are Maryam Asgari, Sharon Inouye, Barbara Kahn, Deborah Levine, Emily Oken, Page Pennell, Susan Redline, Hope Ricciotti, Gyongyi Szabo, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, and Joanne Wolfe (Medical School); Sang Park (SODM); Karen Emmons (SOPH).

Deputy Director for Scientific Management and Operations, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health. ELUMs at the NIH are Diana Bianchi, Cindy Dunbar, Karen Frank, Maureen Goodenow, Lisa Halvorson, Janice Lee, Holly Lisanby, Julie Segre, Debara Tucci, and Hannah Valantine.

Vice Chair Clinical Operations General OBGYN, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College of Wisconsin. ELUMs at MCW are Diane Braza, Laura Cassidy, Pat Donohoue, Libby Ellinas, Judy Kersten, Karen Marcdante, Mary Otterson, Julie Panepinto, Ann Rosenthal, Daisy Sahoo, Marjorie Wang, and Earnestine Willis.

Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. ELUMs at Ohio State are Carol Bradford, Karen Calhoun, Linda Cripe, Isabelle Deschenes, Wendy Frankel, Deborah Larsen, Clara Lee, Jacqueline Olayiwola, Laura Phieffer, Kristina Reber, Alison Walker, and Judith Westman (COM); Purnima Kumar and Fonda Robinson (COD); Karen Patricia Williams (CON).

Deputy Director for Public Health Science and Surveillance, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An ELUM at the CDC is Deb Houry.

Directors, Thoracic Oncology, Breast Oncology and West Chester Cancer Programs, The University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Evie Alessandrini, Maria Britto, Melanie Cushion, Mercedes Falciglia, Irene Hamrick, Neeru Hershey, Christy Holland, Uma Kotagal, Liz Leenellett, Mary Mahoney, Patty Manning-Courtney, Ardythe Morrow, Tiina Reponen, Lori Stark, Laura Wexler, and Dani Zander (COM).

Director, Division of Addiction Psychiatry, Penn State College of Medicine and Penn State Health. ELUMs at Penn State are Elisabeth Kunkel, Shou-Ling Leong, Barbara Miller, Eileen Moser, Ann Ouyang, Leslie Parent, Susan Promes, Erika Saunders, Kathryn Schmitz, and Nan Schwann (COM).


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 President, Operations, Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. See above for ELUMs at Penn State.
 

Executive Director, American Board of Dermatology.
 
Chief Medical Officer, Memorial Healthcare System, Hollywood, Florida.

Chair of Pediatrics, Nemours Children's Hospital, Orlando, FL.

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).
 
Division Head of Hospital Medicine, Henry Ford Health System - Detroit, Michigan.
 
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.

 
The following positions were submitted by the search firm Korn Ferry:
[Note that ELUM Deborah Wing is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry.]
  
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, University of Massachusetts Medical School. ELUMs at the university are Viv Budnik, Sonia Chimienti, Debbie DeMarco, Julia Johnson, Jean King, Katherine Luzuriaga, Tiffany Moore Simas, Shlomit Schaal, and Celia Schiffer.

Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, The University of Maryland Medical System. ELUMs at the university are Mimi Blitzer, Renee Fox, and Donna Parker (SOM); Sandra Quinn (SOPH).

Chief Wellness Officer, The University of California, Irvine. An ELUM at the university is Daniela Bota.
 
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.
 
Chair, Department of Surgery, Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University. ELUMs at the university are Annette Johnson, Sylvia Smith, and Martha Tingen (Medical College); Carole Hanes and Carol Lefebvre (CODM).

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology/Obstetrician/Gynecologist-in-Chief, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/University Hospitals Health System.

Director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
 
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Columbia University. ELUMs at the university are Rita Charon, Susan Essock, Roberta Locko, Angela Mills, Sue Rosenthal, Blair Simpson, Anne Taylor, and Carolyn Westhoff (College of Physicians and Surgeons); Vicky Evangelidis-Sakellson (CODM); Linda Fried (SOPH); Kathy Shear (School of Social Work).
 
Vice Chair of Education, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. ELUMs at Rutgers are A.M. Barrett, Vivian Bellofatto, Chantal Brazeau, Nancy Connell, Gita Lamba, Anne Mosenthal, Maria Soto-Greene (NJMS); Maral Mouradian, Kathy Scotto, Carol Terregino (Robert Wood Johnson Medical School); Nanci Tofsky (SODM).
  
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).

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.


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


The Last Word
AAMC CFAS News, October 2, 2020:
It may feel extra hard to get a decent chuckle these days, but the New York Times covered how laughter may be an effective medicine even in very challenging times. In addition to reducing stress hormones, the piece describes research showing that watching a funny video can improve short-term memory in older adults while increasing the capacity to learn. And other research points to the ability to deal with trauma among people who tend to smile and laugh more.