December 16, 2021
Reminder: ELAM Application Deadline Approaching!
Applications to the 2022-2023 ELAM Fellowship year are due on January 7! If you haven't yet, please take the time now to spread 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 7, 2022, and recommendations and nominations are due by January 28.
Upcoming Events
Navigating Institutional Transformation, Growth and Change
UC Davis School of Medicine, Sacramento, Calif.

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Executive Leadership in Health Care Program

ELAM is thrilled to announce that application for our new Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) program is now open. ELH, a year-long, part-time fellowship intended for women in mid-career to senior career level leadership positions in U.S. and Canadian health systems, is a transformative program that builds health care leadership skills and includes a unique opportunity within the program to learn and network with ELAM fellows. 

A link to the application can be found here. Applications are due January 8, 2022, and nomination and recommendation letters are due January 28, 2022.  
ELAM Specialty Listservs
We created ELAM/ELUM specialty listservs for these areas/affinity groups:

Dental
Public Health 
Cancer Research
Emergency Medicine
ObGyn
Pediatrics
Surgery
Internal Medicine
Psychiatry/Behavioral Health
Health Equity/DEI 
Neurology/Neuroscience
MedEd
Well-Being
LGBTQ+
Ophthalmology
Basic Science
Pathology
Black/AA
Family and Community Medicine
Hematology and Stem Cell Biology
Physician-Scientist Training

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
Joanne M. Conroy, MD (ELAM ’98) was presented the Steven Schroeder Award for Outstanding Healthcare CEO at The Leapfrog Group’s annual meeting.

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil (ELAM ’20) was quoted in the December 6 New York Times article, Women Earn $2 Million Less Than Men in Their Careers as Doctors.

Amy Kind, MD, PhD (ELAM ’20), will serve as the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health’s inaugural associate dean for social health sciences and programs.

Yun Saksena, BDSc., MMSc, DMD (ELAM ’16) was announced as Associate Dean for Education, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at University of Nebraska Medical Center.



ELUM Articles
JAMA Health Forum, December 2, 2021:
Deidra C. Crews, MD, ScM; Chiquita A. Collins, PhD; Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH

Academic Medicine, December 7, 2021:
Rodriguez, Carolyn I. MD, PhD; Jagsi, Reshma MD, DPhil; Mangurian, Christina MD, MAS

The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 135, Issue 1, January 2022:
Emily A. Stewart, Michael Kisielewski, Kathlyn Fletcher, Gretchen Diemer, Susan Lane, Abby Spencer, Lisa L. Willett
Articles of Note
WBUR, November 17:
In one of the largest industries in Massachusetts, gender diversity on the boards of biopharmaceutical companies has improved significantly over the past four years, but women have not made the same progress advancing into senior executive roles and Black and Latinx workers continue to be underrepresented in the workforce, according to a new industry survey.

Becker’s Hospital Review, November 29:
Despite the massive, diverse patient pool for healthcare companies, only 15 percent of CEOs in the industry are women, a new study published Nov. 29 revealed.

Knowledge@Wharton, November 30:
This Nano Tool for Leaders from Wharton Executive Education offers strategies to improve team resilience and performance and reduce burnout by relying on less obvious sources of support.

Inside Higher Ed, December 2:
While board size held steady in 2020, the pandemic had a significant impact on the frequency and length of board meetings, many of which were conducted online.

Inside Higher Ed, December 3:
Carra Hood offers 10 steps for addressing bias and unequal treatment in higher education institutions.

The New York Times, December 6:
A survey of more than 80,000 physicians estimated that women make 25 percent less than men over a 40-year career.

Inside Higher Ed, December 7:
The faculty can be a major success factor in how a college deals with financial stress and should play an integral role in any decision-making process, Mark Podgainy and Kristine Southard write.

AAMC CFAS News, December 10:
A patient undergoing surgery by a surgeon of a different sex faces a relative 7% higher odds of death, readmission, or a complication, reported MedPage Today. The article covered a study published in JAMA Surgery.
Calls for Application, Nomination, Etc.
AAMC CFAS News, December 10:
The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has announced key changes to its Macy Faculty Scholars Program, a career development program for medical and nursing educators, including a revised timeline and selection criteria. The 2022 application cycle will open from April 1 through Aug. 1, and selected applicants will begin their two-year award period on July 1, 2023. Additionally, the Macy Foundation seeks to identify a more diverse next generation of scholars, including those who are more junior and more representative of the diverse individuals and communities served by the nation’s health professions institutions.
Positions
Dean, College of Medicine, Howard University. ELUMs at Howard are Andrea Hayes-Jordan, Renee Jenkins (COM); Cecile Skinner (COD)

Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine. ELUMs at UCLA are Ines Boechat, Sherin Devaskar, Sarah Dry, Lynn Gordon, Ming Guo, Sarah Kilpatrick, Margi Stuber, Areti Tillou, Barbara Van de Wiele, Donna Washington (SOM); Kathryn Atchison, Diana Messadi (SOD). 

Chair, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. ELUMs at the university are Beth Burnside, Molly Carnes, Shobhina Chheda, Beth Drolet, Valerie Gilchrist, Ellen Hartenbach, Amy Kind, Pat Kokotailo, Elizabeth Petty, Nancy Raymond, Nasia Safdar, Lynn Schnapp, Christie Seibert, Maureen Smith, Susan Thibeault, Betsy Trowbridge, Terri Young.


Chair, Department of Anesthesiology, The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Wexner Medical Center. ELUMs at Ohio State are Carol Bradford, Karen Calhoun, Isabelle Deschenes, Wendy Frankel, Deborah Larsen, Cheryl Lee, Clara Lee, Dana McTigue, Laura Phieffer, Alison Walker, Judith Westman (COM); Purnima Kumar, Fonda Robinson (COD). 

Chair, Department of Family Medicine, Maine Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine. ELUMs at Tufts are Rachel Buchsbaum, Karen Freund, Caroline Genco, Lindsey Grossman, Simin Meydani (SOM); Aruna Ramesh (SODM).        

Director, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Case Western Reserve University/Cleveland Clinic/University Hospitals. An ELUM at the Cleveland Clinic is Karen Murray. See above for ELUMs at Case Western. 

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine, Albany Medical College. ELUMs at AMC are Ellen Cosgrove, Stephanie Jones, Barbara Ostrov, Julie Pilitsis, Becky Rogers, Sophia Socaris.

Senior Medicinal Chemist for the Antiviral Program for Pandemics, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health. ELUMs at the NIH are Diana Bianchi, Rena D'Souza, Cindy Dunbar, Karen Frank, Maureen Goodenow, Lisa Halvorson, Janice Lee, Holly Lisanby, Julie Segre, Irini Sereti.


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

Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer, Morehouse School of Medicine. ELUMs at Morehouse are Frances Dunston, Marty Elks, Sandra Harris-Hooker, Janice Herbert-Carter, Valerie Montgomery Rice, Elizabeth Ofili, Erica Sutton. 

Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging and Geriatrics, University of California, Davis. ELUMs at UC Davis are Amy Brooks-Kayal, 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, Rachel Whitmer.

Integrative Medicine Medical Director, University of California, Davis. See above for ELUMs at UC Davis.

Division Chief of Clinical Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Betsy Allen, Jennifer Bailit, Barbara Cromer, Alison Hall, Eleanor Harris, Lia Logio, Susan Nedorost, Cathy Sila, Georgia Wiesner (SOM); Kristi Victoroff (SOD).

Section Head for Fetal Diagnosis & Therapy, Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Mayo Clinic. ELUMs at the Mayo Clinic are Rebecca Bahn, Lotte Dyrbye, Michele Halyard, Deborah Lightner, Dawn Milliner, Veronique Roger, Teri Rummans, Paula Schomberg, Patty Simmons, Amy Williams.

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

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, 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, Irina Petrache, Judy Regensteiner, Jane Reusch, Angie Ribera, Carol Rumack, Nanette Santoro, Ann Thor, Maggie Wierman, Shanta Zimmer (SOM); Cathy Bradley, Sheana Bull, Nichole Carlson, (SOPH); Denise Kassebaum (SODM).

Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, University of Nebraska Medical Center. ELUMs at the university are Aviva Abosch, Ann Anderson Berry, Vimla Band, Shilpa Buch, Pam Carmines, Shirley Delair, Sheila Ellis, Jennifer Larsen, Merry Lindsey, Deb Romberger, Kari Simonsen, Shelley Smith, Anna Spagnoli (COM); Yun Saksena (COD). 

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. An ELUM at the university is Paula Termuhlen. 

Scientific Director, Research Data Services Core, AdventHealth Research Institute, Orlando, FL.

Associate Clinical Chief, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. ELUMs at the university are Leah Harris, Beth Nelson.

Chief of Pediatric Anesthesia, University of California San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland. 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, Caroline Shiboski (SOD). 

Director of Bone Marrow Transplant, Division of Hematology Oncology, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. ELUMs at UC Davis are Amy Brooks-Kayal, 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.

Chair, Department of Surgery and Chief of Service, Grady Health System, Morehouse School of Medicine. ELUMs at the Morehouse are Marty Elks, Sandra Harris-Hooker, Janice Herbert-Carter, Valerie Montgomery Rice, Elizabeth Ofili, Erica Sutton.
 
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, MetroHealth, Cleveland, OH.

Chief, Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota. ELUMs at the university are Christine Arenson, Lynne Bemis, Jerica Berge, Iris Borowsky, Linda Carson, Rahel Ghebre, Maria Hordinsky, Leslie Morse, Ana Núñez, Anne Pereira, Arti Prasad, Betsy Seaquist, Jill Siegfried, Stephanie Terezakis, Mandy Termuhlen, Ezgi Tiryaki, Ann Van Heest (Medical School); Sheila Riggs (SOD); Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Beth Virnig (SOPH); Carrie Haskell-Luevano (College of Pharmacy).


The following positions were submitted by the search firm Grant Cooper/Diversified Search:

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, 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, and Jehni Robinson.

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, Melina Kibbe, Suzanne Landis, Kenya McNeal-Trice, Kate Menard, Genevieve Neal-Perry, Leslie Parise, Nancy Thomas (SOM); Julie Byerley, Valerie Murrah (SOD).

Division Chief, Adult Cardiac Surgery, University of Texas Health San Antonio. ELUMs at UTHSA 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).


Vice President of Research Administration, Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health. ELUMs at the University of Pennsylvania 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); Anh Le, Esra Sahingur (SODM); Allison Ballantine, Angie Ellison, Susan Furth, Holly Hedrick, Kim Smith-Whitley (Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania).

Vice Dean, Educational Affairs, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine. 

Head, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension and Renal Transplantation, Houston Methodist. ELUMs with Weill Cornell and Texas A&M (affiliated with Houston Methodist) are: Thurayya Arayssi, Jenny Chang, Kate Heilpern, Barbara Hempstead, Yoon Kang, Rainu Kaushal, Susan Pannullo, Sallie Permar, Monika Safford, Rache Simmons, Judy Tung (Weill Cornell); Amy Waer (Texas A&M).

Assistant Dean for Educational Affairs, Clerkships, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine.

Executive Director, UMass T.H. Chan Collaborative in Health Equity, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School. ELUMs at the university are Joanna Cain, Deborah DeMarco, Julia Johnson, Jean King, Katherine Luzuriaga, Tiffany Moore Simas, Shlomit Schaal, Celia Schiffer.

Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, University of Central Florida College of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Diane Davey, Cristina Fernandez-Valle, Debbie German, Jane Gibson, Annette Khaled.


The following positions were submitted by the search firm Isaacson, Miller:

President and Chief Executive Officer, The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology.

Dean, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. ELUMs at the university are Wendy Brewster, Jan Busby-Whitehead, Giselle Corbie-Smith, Joanne Jordan, Nancy Thomas.

Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education, The Warren Alpert Medical School (AMS) of Brown University. ELUMs at Brown are Angie Caliendo, Kimberle Chapin-Robertson, Phyllis Dennery, Alyson McGregor.


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

Chief Patient Officer, American Cancer Society.

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 Dean for Research, Yale School of Nursing. ELUMs at Yale are Nita Ahuja, Ferne Braveman, Nancy Brown, Anees Chagpar, Cindy Crusto, Gail D'Onofrio, Rosemarie Fisher, Barbara Kazmierczak, Diane Krause, Carolyn Mazure, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Ismene Petrakis, Marina Picciotto, Uma Reddy, Carrie Redlich, Lynn Tanoue (SOM); Judy Lichtman, Melinda Pettigrew (SOPH). 

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. ELUMs at Dartmouth are Erika Brown, 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).

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.

Chair, Department of Surgery, Indiana University School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Mary Dankoski, Linda DiMeglio, Gayle Gordillo, Flora Hammond, Cherri Hobgood, Abby Klemsz, Kathy Miller, Aina Puce, Lexy Torke, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds (SOM); Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch, Melanie Peterson (SOD).

Dean, School of Medicine, University of Maryland. ELUMs at the university are Mimi Blitzer, Renee Fox, Donna Parker (SOM); Sandra Quinn (SOPH).

Chair, Department of Psychiatry/Psychiatrist-in-Chief, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/University Hospitals Health System. ELUMs at the affiliated Case Western Reserve are Betsy Allen, Barbara Cromer, Alison Hall, Eleanor Harris, Lia Logio, Susan Nedorost, Cathy Sila, Georgia Wiesner.
 
Chair, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Health System. ELUMs at the university are Emelia Benjamin, Deborah Cotton, Sharon Levine (SOM); Judith Jones, Leslie Will (SODM); Deborah Bowen, Lisa Sullivan (SOPH). 

Chair, Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Emelia Benjamin, Deborah Cotton, Sharon Levine (SOM); Judith Jones, Leslie Will (SODM); Deborah Bowen, Lisa Sullivan (SOPH).

Vice Dean for Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Research, Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
 
Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
 
Assistant Dean for Foundational Sciences, Whole Health School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
 
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University. ELUMs at the university are Sharon Anderson, Amanda Clark, Renee Edwards, Jeanne-Marie Guise, Donna Hansel, Leslie Kahl (SOM); Phyllis Beemsterboer, Pam Hughes (SOD).


A number of positions were submitted by the search firm Witt/Kieffer:
[Note that ELUMs Joyce De Leo and Dee Wing are affiliated with Witt/Kieffer.]

Section Chief, Cardiology, Tulane University School of Medicine. ELUMs at Tulane are Mary Killackey, Gabriella Pridjian.
 
Assistant Dean for Medical Education Research and Scholarship, Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine.
 
Associate Chief Medical Officer, Ambulatory Care, Stanford Health Care. ELUMs at Stanford are Juli Barr, Constance Chu, Iris Gibbs, Sabine Girod, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Odette Harris, Mary Hawn, Kim Hazard, Paula Hillard, Megan Mahoney, Carla Pugh, Marlene Rabinovitch, Hannah Valantine, Sherry Wren.


For all job posting requests, please email: elamcareers@drexel.edu.
The Last Word
New York Times, December 15:
She insisted that the fight for women’s rights had to take into account the diverse experiences of working-class and Black women.