Application to the 2021-2022 ELAM Fellowship year opens 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.

This year, prospective fellows are invited to attend a virtual open house on October 26 at 8 p.m. EDT to learn more about the program and how to apply. 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. 

To join a specific listserv or if there is a specialty listserv you would like us to create, please contact bro29@drexel.edu.

Nita Ahuja, MD, MBA (ELAM ’17), was elected as the new Board Chair of the Yale Medicine Board.

Julie A. Freischlag, MD (ELAM ’97), was elected to serve as the 2020–2021 President-Elect of the American College of Surgeons (ACS).

Amy Kelley, MD MSHS (ELAM ’21) was promoted to Professor and Vice Chair for Health Policy and Faculty Development in the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Leslie Kohman, MD (ELAM ’08), was appointed as Upstate Medical University’s first Chief Wellness Officer.

Elizabeth Parks, PhD, has been elected to begin the path to lead The Obesity Society. In 2022, she will serve as the 40th president of the Society, which is the leading professional organization focused on the science-based understanding of the causes, consequences, prevention, and treatment of obesity.

Abby L. Spencer, MD, MS (ELAM ’21) was featured in an AMWA Member Spotlight.

A number of ELUMs were elected into the National Academy of Medicine:

The above graphic was created featuring key ideas from a presentation Nancy Spector, M.D. (ELAM ’10 and ELAM Executive Director) gave entitled Allyship: Equity Collaborative at the Women in Medicine Summit on October 9.

Hernandez, Rachael PhD; Hoffmann-Longtin, Krista PhD; Patrick, Shawn MA; Tucker-Edmonds, Brownsyne MD, MPH, MS; Rucker, Sydney MA; Livingston, Nikki

Ross, Paula T. PhD; Lypson, Monica L. MD, MHPE; Byington, Carrie L. MD; Sánchez, John P. MD, MPH; Wong, Brian M. MD; Kumagai, Arno K. MD

One oft-cited reason why more female executives don’t advance to top management jobs is their lack of access to informal organizational and industry networks.

This conceptual paper contributes a new perspective on the role of women academics’ friendships in helping them navigate and counter the masculine culture of academia.

Universities without plans for women may find themselves unable to obtain research grants.

While the long-term impact of COVID-19 and the associated economic fallout has yet to be fully seen, the record number of individuals furloughed and unemployed have found ample time to self-reflect. It seems many are finding this unprecedented experience an opportune time to make change.

On a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation program earlier this month, a debate between two physicians over coronavirus-related restrictions turned into a brief clash over the role of gender in mainstream discourse.

Female academics saw their own experiences in the vice-presidential debate's gendered and racialized dynamics.

The chair’s letter is the principal information conduit to the dean and central administration and, thus, a decisive element in the tenure and promotion process, writes Richard Utz.

A U.S. Department of Labor review of staff wages from 2012 to 2014 found disparities between male and female professors.

China's shift to a tenure-like system is hurting women, survey finds.

Strengthening your equity, diversity and inclusion skills as a scholar, thought leader and mentor will build a foundation for your professional growth, writes Nana Lee.

An expert in pay equity says the more education women have, the wider the gaps.

Large-scale study backs up other research showing relative declines in women's research productivity during COVID-19.

On Nov. 24, the AAMC Group on Research Education and Training (GREAT) and GWIMS will explore culture change initiatives in the context of a basic science setting. A panel of inclusion and diversity leaders at academic medical centers will describe and critique their own initiatives, and share their initiative’s effects, successes and missed opportunities in three areas: engaging basic scientists v. clinicians, addressing power dynamics, and understanding intersectionality. Webinar attendees will then participate in facilitated discussions regarding any perceived need for culture change in the basic sciences, possible drivers for change, their own institution’s inclusion-based initiatives, and potential success of the programs presented at their academic medical center. Register Now

Vice President USMLE, NBME.

Dean, School of Medicine, University of Virginia. ELUMs at the university are Karen Ballen, Linda Duska, Maryellen Gusic, Karen Johnston, Mary Faith Marshall, Vicky Norwood, Debra Perina, Sue Pollart, and Martha Zeiger.

Chief Diversity & Community Engagement Officer, University of Virginia Health. See above for ELUMs at the university.

Chief Medical Informatics Officer, Children’s Hospital & Medical Center (affiliated with College of Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Creighton University School of Medicine). An ELUM at the university of Nebraska are Aviva Abosch, Ann Anderson Berry, Vimla Band, Shilpa Buch, Pam Carmines, Sheila Ellis, Jennifer Larsen, Deb Romberger, Kari Simonsen, Shelley Smith, and Anna Spagnoli, (COM); Yun Saksena (COD). An ELUM at Creighton is Sade Kosoko-Lasaki.

Associate Dean for Student Affairs, University of California, Riverside. An ELUM at the university is Deborah Deas.

Associate Dean and Regional Campus Director, Indiana University School of Medicine-West Lafayette. ELUMs at the university are Mary Dankoski, Linda DiMeglio, Gayle Gordillo, Sara Jo Grethlein, Flora Hammond, Cherri Hobgood, Abby Klemsz, Kathy Miller, Aina Puce, Lexy Torke, and Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds (SOM); Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch and Melanie Peterson (SOD).

Chair, Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university 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).

Chief, Department of Neurology/Co-Medical Director, Neuroscience Service Line/Endowed Chair, Neurosciences Division, Saint Luke’s Health System/Marion Bloch Neurosciences Institute/University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine. ELUMs at University of Missouri-Kansas City are Betty Drees, Jill Moormeier, Rebecca Pauly, and Karen Williams (SOM); Pam Overman and Marsha Pyle (SOD).

Deputy Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Department of Health and Human Services, 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.

Pain Medicine, Division Director, Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. ELUMs at the university 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 (College of Nursing).

Medical Director of Heart Transplant, 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.

Division Chief, Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine. See above for ELUMs at the university.

Medical Director, Hemostasis and Thrombosis, Cleveland Clinic.

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).

Vice President and Chief Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Seattle Children's.

Chief Medical Officer, Ambulatory Specialty Practice, Medical College of Wisconsin. See above for ELUMs at the MCW.

Chief Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Officer, Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University.

Dean, Eugene Applebaum College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Wayne State University. ELUMs at the university are Tsveti Markova, Kathleen McCarroll, Liz Puscheck, Maryjean Schenk, and Suzanne White.

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).

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).

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

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).

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).

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.

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.

Head, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Houston Methodist.

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.

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The new lavatory is a symbol of the agency’s growing recognition of female astronauts’ needs.