Is there a topic you've been wanting to share with the ELAM community? Something you learned about leadership, equity, or women's roles in academic medicine? A personal story you think the community of ELUMs would love to hear? Now is your time to share that story. We are looking for submissions for the ELAM Blog, and want to hear from you! Please send any ideas you have for a blog post that you think would be of interest to Barbara Overholser at bro29@drexel.edu.

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ELUM Professional Development Conference

We created ELAM/ELUM specialty listservs in these areas/interests (five newly added):

ObGyn

Pediatrics

Surgery

Internal Medicine

Psychiatry/Behavioral Health

Well-Being

LGBTQ+

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

Ngozi Anachebe, Pharm.D., M.D. (ELAM ’20) has been promoted to Senior Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs at Morehouse School of Medicine.

Bettina Beech, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. (ELAM ’12) was appointed to the position of Chief Population Health Officer at the University of Houston.

Renee Edwards, M.D., M.B.A. (ELAM ’19) was quoted in an August 25 Oregon Public Broadcasting story, Oregon’s hospitals are overwhelmed. Here’s what they’re asking you to do.

Carmen Green, MD (ELAM ’05) was named the new dean of the CUNY School of Medicine (CSOM) at The City College of New York.

Clara Lee, M.D., M.P.P. (ELAM ’22) was appointed Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at The Ohio State University College of Medicine.

The Institute for Clinical Research Education’s Leading Emerging and Diverse Scholars to Success (LEADS) program, for which Doris Rubio, Ph.D. (ELAM ’09) was a principal investigator, has won a 2021 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine.

Celia Schiffer, Ph.D. (ELAM ’21) and her ELAM Institutional Action Project were featured in an August 23 UMass Med News article, Communicating science: Institute for Drug Resistance video series elevates awareness, understanding.

Anne Taylor, M.D. (ELAM ’02) will receive the AAMC’s 2021 Group on Women in Medicine and Science Leadership Award for an Individual.

A learning community from the ELAM Class of 2014 enjoyed time together on the coast of Connecticut this summer.

L to R (Front): Ismene Petrakis, Anu Paranjape, Barbara Hempstead, Anh Lee

Back: Beth Kirkpatrick

(Missing LC member: Sharon Inouye)

Recommendations for Becoming an Antiracist Academic Medical Center

Wilkins, Consuelo H. MD, MSCI; Williams, Mamie MPH, MSN, FNP-BC; Kaur, Karampreet MD; DeBaun, Michael R. MD, MPH

Christopher J. Lindsell, Cheryl L. Gatto, Mary Lynn Dear, Reagan Buie, Todd W. Rice, Jill M. Pulley, Tina V. Hartert, Sunil Kripalani, Frank E. Harrell, Daniel W. Byrne, Mitchell C. Edgeworth, Robin Steaban, Robert S. Dittus, Gordon R. Bernard

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), drawing on an 18-month collaboration with five other health care organizations, published a multi-specialty supplement on “Women in Medicine” in the September 2021 Pediatrics. This issue explores challenges to improving gender equity and strategies for advancing women in medicine. A number of the articles also have ELUMs at co-authors:

Erin Hayes Kelly, Florence Rivera, V. Fan Tait, Susan Thompson Hingle

Madeline M. Joseph, Amy M. Ahasic, Jesse Clark, Kim Templeton

Adebisi Alli, Tammy Lin, Luanne E. Thorndyke, Ranna Parekh, Ana Nunez

Bridgette L. Jones, Catherine Cheng, Lisa M. Foglia, Hope Ricciotti, Wendi Willis El-Amin

Catherine Cansino, Kajal Khanna, Xenia Johnson Bhembe, Barbara Overholser, Helen R. Burstin, Nancy D. Spector

Erin Hayes Kelly, Theresa Miskimen, Florence Rivera, Laura E. Peterson, Susan Thompson Hingle

6 paradoxes that build leadership trust: learn why they are so critical during changing times.

But a study of the publications of millions of researchers also suggests that women are less likely to continue their academic careers than their male counterparts.

How to prepare an authentic response on diversity, equity, and inclusion as a job candidate for leadership positions.

Women have been flocking from the medical field during the pandemic. Current fellow Julie Silver launched a gender equity campaign to encourage employers to support their women employees and bring awareness to why they are leaving.

I’ve been an English professor for nearly 20 years, but people still tell me I don’t look like one. Not because I’m young (I’m not), but because I’m Asian American. Whenever professors are depicted in shows or movies, they’re usually stereotypes—elitist, intimidating, eccentric, out of touch, occasionally inspiring—and they’re almost always white and male and, yes, wearing wool jackets. So for me it was startling, even emotional, to see Sandra Oh as a professor trying to run a dysfunctional English department at an East Coast liberal arts university on the Netflix show The Chair.

It’s a game of Chutes and Ladders — and we can even the odds.

Inadequately citing or entirely omitting the scholarship of women and people of color reflects the larger problem of entrenched marginalization in the academy, write 12 women scholars.

New York’s first-ever female governor has been given a massive challenge. It’s a common story for many women leaders who only get their big break during times of crisis.

USA Today covered the challenges of delivering health care to racially diverse communities in the Rochester, N.Y., area, and the work three Black women physicians have undertaken to address racial diversity in their community, including creation of the Black Physicians Network of Greater Rochester. All three women featured in the piece — Gina Cuyler, MD; Linda Clark, MD, MS; and Nana Duffey, MD — have faculty appointments at the University of Rochester or the University of Buffalo.

USA Today also covered the fight for health justice, particularly among Black women, in racially diverse populations in Syracuse, N.Y., in the shadow of SUNY Upstate Medical University.

Nominations are being accepted for Fierce Healthcare’s 2021 Women of Influence award. Nominations must be submitted by Sept. 24.

Dean, School of Medicine, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. ELUMs at Rutgers are Maral Mouradian, Kathy Scotto, Carol Terregino (RWJMS); Vivian Bellofatto, Chantal Brazeau, Nancy Connell, Gita Lamba, Maria Soto-Greene (NJMS); Nanci Tofsky (SODM).

Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine. ELUMs at Utah are Mary Beckerle, Wendy Chapman, Catherine deVries, Kathleen Digre, Angie Fagerlin, Evelyn Gopez, Rachel Hess, Wendy Hobson-Rohrer, Harriet Hopf, Vicki Judd, Sara Lamb, Nancy Murphy, Mary Murray, Neli Ulrich, Monica Vetter (SOM).

Chair, Department of Translational Neurosciences, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. ELUMs at the university are Martha Gulati, Cheryl O'Malley (COM – Phoenix).

Chair, Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. ELUMs at UPenn are Stephanie Abbuhl, Susan Brozena, Elizabeth Drum, Sydney Evans, Carmen Guerra, Eve Higginbotham, Ellie Kelepouris, Judith McKenzie, Raina Merchant, Kathleen Montone, Kim Olthoff, Marylyn Ritchie, Marilyn Schapira, Sarah Tishkoff (SOM); Allison Ballantine, Angie Ellison, Susan Furth, Holly Hedrick, Kim Smith-Whitley (CHOP), Anh Le, Esra Sahingur, (SODM).

Chair, Department of Anesthesia, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center (LHMC), part of Beth Israel Lahey Health/Tufts University. ELUMs at Tufts are Rachel Buchsbaum, Karen Freund, Caroline Genco, Simi Meydani, Elena Naumova, and Aruna Ramesh.

Section Chief, Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University. ELUMs at the university are Simin Dadparvar, Susan Fisher, Nina Gentile, Amy Goldberg, Anu Paranjape, Ellen Tedaldi (SOM); Laura Siminoff (COPH).

Director/Liaison of HSC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), West Virginia University Health Science Center. ELUMS at WVU are Anne Cather, Judie Charlton, Laura Gibson, Rashida Khakoo, Maria Kolar (SOM); Shelia Price (SOD).

Chief, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. ELUMs at UT Southwestern are Nora Gimpel, Robin Jarrett, Shawna Nesbitt, Helen Yin.

Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of Oklahoma College of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Suanne Daves, Susan Edwards, Marilyn Escobedo, Jane Fitch, Pascale Lane.

Chair/Chief Department of Family Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Care New England (CNE) Health System. ELUMs at the university are

Angie Caliendo, Kimberle Chapin-Robertson, Phyllis Dennery, Alyson McGregor, Audrey Tyrka.

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

Senior Vice President, Chief Medical Officer, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL.

Chair, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Health System Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. ELUMs at Mount Sinai are Margaret Baron, Nina Bickell, Stephanie Blank, Joanna Chikwe, Angela Diaz, Lisa Edelmann, Amy Kelley, Madhu Mazumdar, Sarah Millar, Maria Padilla, Lynne Richardson, Barbara Vickrey, Karen Zier.

Associate Chief Medical Officer, Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock. ELUMs at Dartmouth are Ilana Cass, Jocelyn Chertoff, Sonia Chimienti, Joanne Conroy, Leslie Fall, Barbara Jobst.

Chancellor, University of Tennessee Health Science Center. ELUMs at UTHSC are Penny Asbell and Owen Phillips.

Executive Vice President, Clinical Affairs, University of Vermont Health Network. ELUMs at the university are Elizabeth Bonney, Beth Kirkpatrick, Debra Leonard.

Chief Clinical Officer, Family Health Center of Worcester, Inc.

Dean, School of Medicine, The University of New Mexico. ELUMs at the university are Loretta Cordova de Ortega, Melvina McCabe, Martha McGrew, Leslie Morrison, Tassy Parker, Karlett Parra, Valerie Romero-Leggott, Anne Simpson, Aimee Smidt, Carolyn Voss, Bronwyn Wilson (SOM); Tracie Collins (COPH).

Chief Medical Officer, University of California, Irvine Health. ELUMs at UC Irvine are Ruth Benca, Daniela Bota, Coleen Cunningham, Deena McRae.

System Physician Executive, Novant Health Surgical Institute, North Carolina.

A number of positions were submitted by the search firm AMN Healthcare/Merritt Hawkins:

Family Medicine Residency Program Director, Aspirus Health Care, Wausau, Wisconsin.

Director, Pediatric Maltreatment Program, Section Director Child Abuse Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. ELUMs at the university are Shari Barkin, Colleen Brophy, Meg Chren, Ellen Clayton, Cheryl Coffin, Cathy Eng, Maureen Gannon, Tina Hartert, Katherine Hartmann, Alyssa Hasty, Mary Hooks, Julie Lewis, Beth Malow, Ann Richmond, Virginia Shepherd, Kyla Terhune, Consuelo Wilkins, Mary Zutter.

Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director, UnityPoint Health - Des Moines.

Director of Women’s Imaging, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso. An ELUM at TTUHSC El Paso is Sireesha Reddy.

Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Lilian Abbo, Annie Burdick, Diana Cardenas, Latha Chandran, Sylvia Daunert, Norma Kenyon, Judy Schaechter, Judith Simms-Cendan, Joan St. Onge, Omaida Velazquez.

Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics, The University of Colorado School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Marsha Anderson, Leslie Appiah, Kathleen Barnes, Laura Borgelt, Suzanne Brandenburg, Brenda Bucklin, Evalina Burger, Nichole Carlson, Colleen Conry, Robin Deterding, Neill Epperson, Heide Ford, Laurie Gaspar, Melissa Haendel, Janine Higgins, Joanne Hilden, Liz Kovacs, Jean Kutner, Anne Libby, Kristen Nadeau, Chris Nyquist, Judy Regensteiner, Jane Reusch, Angie Ribera, Carol Rumack, Nanette Santoro, Ann Thor, Maggie Wierman, Shanta Zimmer (SOM); Denise Kassebaum (SODM).

Chief Medical Officer, Pediatric Physicians’ Organization at Children’s, Boston, MA.

Chief Medical Officer, Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital, University of California San Francisco. ELUMs at UCSF are Claire Brindis, Marcelle Cedars, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, Linda Giudice, Jane Koehler, Catherine Lucey, Amy Murtha, Mary-Ann Shafer, Julie Ann Sosa, Louise Walter (SOM); Yvonne Kapila and Caroline Shiboski (SOD).

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 and Michele Robinson (SOD).

Associate Vice Chancellor for Research, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. ELUMs at the university are Shuk-mei Ho, Jill Mhyre, Gloria Richard-Davis, Jessica Snowden, and Sara Tariq (SOM), Wendy Nembhard, (COPH).

Associate Director, Basic Research, Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University. ELUMs at Augusta are Annette Johnson, Sylvia Smith, and Martha Tingen (MCG); Carole Hanes, Carol Lefebvre (DCG).

Section Chief, Medical Oncology/Deputy Cancer Center Director, Norris Cotton Cancer, Center Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. See above for ELUMs at Dartmouth.

Chair, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. ELUMs at Dartmouth are Ilana Cass, Jocelyn Chertoff, Joanne Conroy, Leslie Fall, and Barbara Jobst (SOM).

Chair, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Penn State College of Medicine. ELUMs at Penn State are April Armstrong, Xuemei Huang, Sarah Iriana, Shou-Ling Leong, Barbara Miller, Eileen Moser, Ann Ouyang, Leslie Parent, Susan Promes, Erika Saunders, Nan Schwann, and Britta Thompson (COM); Sharon Griswold and Elisabeth Kunkel (Milton S. Hershey); Kathryn Schmitz (Cancer Institute).

Chair, Department of Family Medicine, NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Deputy Executive Director for Patient-Centered Research Programs, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, Washington, DC.

Deputy Director of Clinical Services, Abramson Cancer Center, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. ELUMs at UPenn are Stephanie Abbuhl, Denise Adams, Allison Ballantine, Susan Brozena, Elizabeth Drum, Angie Ellison, Sydney Evans, Susan Furth, Carmen Guerra, Holly Hedrick, Eve Higginbotham, Ellie Kelepouris, Judith McKenzie, Raina Merchant, Kathleen Montone, Kim Olthoff, Marilyn Ritchie, Marilyn Schapira, Gail Slap,Kim Smith-Whitley and Sarah Tishkoff (SOM) ; Anh Le and Esra Sahingur (SODM).

Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery/Director, Pediatric Neurosurgery, Chicagoland Children’s Health Alliance/University of Chicago Medicine. ELUMS at the university are Yolanda Becker, Halina Brukner, Deborah Burnet, Jessica Kandel, Karen Kaul, Karen Kim, Stacie Levine, Funmi Olopade.

Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, UT Health San Antonio. ELUMs at UT Health are Robin Brey, Sandra Burge, Chiquita Collins, Deb Conway, Carlayne Jackson, Jan Patterson, Jennifer Potter, Paula Shireman, Gail Tomlinson, Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).

Director, Comprehensive Breast Program, University of Rochester Wilmot Cancer Institute. ELUMs at the University of Rochester are Adrienne Bonham, Yuhchyau Chen, Mary Dombovy, Colleen Fogarty, Diane Hartmann, Jennifer Harvey, Susan Hyman, Antonia Kolokythas, Paige Lawrence, Vivian Lewis, Susan McDaniel, Annie Medina-Walpole, Karen Mustian, Janet Williams, Karen Wilson.

Director, Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute, University of Texas Health 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, Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).

Chair, Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, UT Health San Antonio. See above for ELUMs at the institution.

Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University. ELUMs at VCU are Cheryl Al-Mateen, PJ Coney, Paula Ferrada, Karen Hendricks-Múñoz, Betty Anne Johnson Susan Kornstein, Joyce Lloyd, Andrea Pozez, Betsy Ripley, Karen Sanders Sally Santen, Bela Sood, Shumei Sun, Michelle Whitehurst-Cook.

Vice Chair, Educational Affairs, Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University. See above for ELUMs at VCU.

Division Chair, Geriatric Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University. See above for ELUMs at VCU.

Director, Cardiac Imaging, UT Health San Antonio. See above for ELUMs at UTHSA.

Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. ELUMs at USC are Rima Jubran, Michele Kipke, Jehni Robinson and Luanne Thorndyke.

Designated Institutional Officer, Adena Health System, Chillicothe, OH.

Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. See above for ELUMs at Keck.

Director, Advanced Heart Failure Program, UT Health San Antonio. See above for ELUMs at UTHSA.

Chief, Surgical Oncology, UT Health San Antonio. See above for ELUMs at UTHSA.

Vice President and Chief Nursing Officer, University of North Carolina Health. ELUMs at UNC are Wendy Brewster, Jan Busby-Whitehead, Nancy Chescheir, Alice Chuang, Cristin Colford, Giselle Corbie-Smith, Stephanie Davis, Andrea Hayes-Jordan, Melina Kibbe, Suzanne Landis, Kenya McNeal-Trice, Kate Menard, Genevieve Neal-Perry, Leslie Parise, Nancy Thomas (SOM); Julie Byerley, Valerie Murrah (SOD).

Director, Institute for Clinical and Translational Science, University of California, Irvine. See above for ELUMs at UC Irvine.

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

Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. ELUMs at USC are Rima Jubran, Michele Kipke, Jehni Robinson, and Luanne Thorndyke.

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

And finally, COVID-19 travel restrictions prevented Australian sheep farmer Ben Jackson from attending the funeral of a beloved relative who died of cancer, but he created an artistic tribute to Aunt Debby that has since gone viral. By spreading feed across a large field in the shape of a heart before releasing his herd to graze, he engineered an extraordinary sight captured high up in the air by drone. Be sure to click the video link in the BBC article to see his creation, which is literally and figuratively moving.