November 19, 2020
Share Your Story

Do you have a story to share? An interesting development in your career? An insight into the role of women in academia? We are looking for submissions for The ELAM Blog, and we would love to hear from you! Your story is an important one, and this is a great opportunity to share it with the ELAM community. If you would like to contribute, please contact Barbara at bro29@drexel.edu for details.
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 Opened 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, with a new specialty recently added:
Dental
Public Health 
Cancer Research
Emergency Medicine
ObGyn
Pediatrics (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
We're excited to announce that Marina Picciotto, PhD, (ELAM ’12), will receive the Marion Spencer Fay Award, presented by the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership, today, Thursday, November 19, 2020, in an interactive, virtual format.

Dr. Picciotto will present a lecture, "My Journey in the Neuroscience of Nicotine Addiction: From Molecules to Behavior," at 4:30 p.m. The lecture will be followed by a moderated Q&A session and the award presentation.

The link to attend will be sent prior to the event. You must RSVP to jkb48@drexel.edu to receive the meeting details.
Jerica Berge, PhD, MPH, (ELAM ‘20) was accepted to the Association of Departments of Family Medicine (ADFM) Leadership Education for Academic Development and Success (LEADS) program for the 2021-2022 cohort. This a 12-month program that is focused on training leaders in academic medicine.

Sheana Bull, PhD, MPH (ELAM ’19) was awarded the 2020 Douglas Kirby Research Award by the Healthy Teen Network.

Julie Ann Freischlag, MD (ELAM ’97) was featured in a November 1 Triad Business Journal article, Power Player 2020: Julie Ann Freischlag, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Atrium Health.

Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS (ELAM ’16) was elected to a three-year term of Vice President/ President and Past President for the North American Primary Care Research.

Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil (ELAM ’20) and Kim Templeton, MD (ELAM ’21) were quoted in a November 12 AAMC News article, How COVID-19 threatens the careers of women in medicine.

Barbara Jobst, MD (ELAM ’16) was awarded the New Hampshire Tech Alliance Professional Award for 2020.

Kenya McNeal-Trice, MD (ELAM ’21), has been named the Chief Graduate Medical Education Officer/ACGME Designated Institutional Official at UNC Hospitals and the Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education at the UNC School of Medicine, effective January 2021.

Tara Sabo-Attwood, PhD (ELAM ‘18), was appointed Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Cultural Affairs and Wellness Programs for the College of Public Health and Health Professions at the University of Florida.
ELUM Articles
World Psychiatry, September 15, 2020:
Katherine L. Wisner, Catherine S. Stika, Katie Watson

Healio, October 15, 2020:
J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, MPH, FAAFP; Bethany Panchal, MD, FAAFP; Candy Magaña, MPA; Ashley Harmon, MPH

The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 133, Issue 11, November 2020:
Jing Liu, MD; Ayman Elbadawi, MD; Islam Y. Elgendy, MD; Michael Megaly, MD; Gbolahan O. Ogunbayo, MD; Chayakrit Krittanawong, MD; Jacqueline E. Tamis-Holland, MD; Christie M. Ballantyne, MD; Mirza U. Khalid, MD; Salim Virani, MD; Martha Gulati, MD; Michelle Albert, MD; Biykem Bozkurt, MD; Hani Jneid, MD

The American Journal of Psychiatry, November 10, 2020:
Leanne R. McCloskey, M.D., Katherine L. Wisner, M.D., Minaz Kolia Cattan, M.D., Hannah K. Betcher, M.D., Catherine S. Stika, M.D., Jessica W. Kiley, M.D.
Articles of Note
SSRN, October 19, 2020:
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, the submission rate to scholarly journals increased abnormally (e.g., more than 90% in health & medicine Elsevier journals). Given that most academics have been forced to work from home, the competing demands for home-schooling, child and other care duties might have penalised the scientific productivity of women.

Knowledge@Wharton, November 4, 2020:
The increasing attention being paid to artificial intelligence raises important questions about its integration with humanity, according to David De Cremer, author of the book ‘Leadership by Algorithm.’

Inside Higher Ed, November 6, 2020:
Research in crisis communications and management suggests college and university leaders might need a different approach to COVID-19 than other crises.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, November 10, 2020:
The old ways of running administrative searches haven’t exactly produced the diverse pool of leaders that higher education claims to want.

Inside Higher Ed, November 10, 2020:
According to the international Women in Economics Initiative’s second annual Women in Economics Index, women still represent an “overall low share” of senior leadership positions in economics, especially within academe.

AAMC CFAS News, November 13, 2020:
The careers of women in medicine are at particular risk in the face of COVID-19, reported AAMCNews. The increased demands and complications around childcare and education, not to mention pronounced career stressors already in play, are making it more challenging for women to advance in academic medicine during the pandemic.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, November 15, 2020:
Twelve ways that white faculty members can better support Black academics in their department and across the campus.

The Chronicle of Higher Education, Academe Today, November 16, 2020:
Incurring a certain amount of opposition is simply an unpleasant but unavoidable part of administrative life.

Inside Higher Ed, November 16, 2020:
We need strong leadership throughout our campuses, not just at the top, if we are to manage the challenges facing us, and trustees must hold institutions accountable for it, writes Patrick Sanaghan.
Calls for Application, Nomination, Etc.
AAMC GREAT & GWIMS Joint Webinar Series
Creating Successful Institutional Culture Change Initiatives at Academic Medical Centers
Tuesday, November 24, 2020
2:00-3:00 p.m. ET
This webinar 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. 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.

AAMC CFAS News, November 13, 2020:
The Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM), the ABIM Foundation, the American College of Physicians, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation announced a new grant program for internal medicine residents and faculty members. The program will support projects designed to promote trust and create a more equitable health system by incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion into the fabric of internal medicine education and training. Letters of intent are due Dec. 10, and selected applicants will be invited to submit full proposals early next year. grants will be awarded in spring 2021.
 
AAMC CFAS News, November 6, 2020:
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation has opened the nomination period for the Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz Humanism in Healthcare Award, which is given to a woman who exemplifies humanism and has advanced the well-being of vulnerable or underserved populations in health care. The award is named for Pearl Birnbaum Hurwitz, a leader in the movement to provide services and support for children with disabilities and their families and the founding president of the Arc of Massachusetts. The deadline for nominations is Dec. 18.
Positions
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 Wellness Officer, The Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center, Emory University. ELUMs at the university are A.M. Barrett, Erica Brownfield, Jada Bussey-Jones, Penny Castellano, Amy Chen, Hughes Evans, Monica Farley, Kathy Griendling, Sheryl Heron, Denise Jamieson, Nadine Kaslow, Lian Li, Carolyn Meltzer (SOM); Lisa Tedesco (Graduate School).

Chair, Department of Epidemiology & Prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Martha Alexander-Miller, Lynn Anthony, Sonia Crandall, Debra Diz, Julie Freischlag, Kristie Foley, Amy McMichael, Katherine Poehling, Sally Shumaker, and Lynne Wagenknecht (SOM).

Executive Chair, Psychiatry, Behavioral Health and Addictions Research, Training and Academic Affairs, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences. 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).

Chief Medical Officer, Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (affiliated with University of Washington Medicine). ELUMs at the university are Chris Abrass, Ginny Broudy, Lorrie Langdale, J. Lee Nelson, Catherine Otto, Leslie Walker-Harding, Bessie Young (SOM); Sara Gordon and Rebecca Slayton (SOD).

Chair, Department of Family & Community Medicine & Vice President for Primary Care Services, Jefferson Health. ELUMs at Jefferson are Gretchen Diemer, Sharon Lehman, Carol Lippa, Ana Maria Lopez, Sue Menko, Edith Mitchell, Karen Novielli, Vijay Rao, and Susan Rosenthal (Sidney Kimmel Medical College).

Division Chair for Vascular and Critical Care Neurology, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine. 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, Bela Sood, Shumei Sun, Michelle Whitehurst-Cook (SOM).

Division Chief of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of North Carolina Children's. ELUMs at the university are Wendy Brewster, Jan Busby-Whitehead, Julie Byerley, Nancy Chescheir, Alice Chuang, Giselle Corbie-Smith, Stephanie Davis, Andrea Hayes-Jordan, Joanne Jordan, Melina Kibbe, Suzanne Landis, Peggy McNaull, Kenya McNeal-Trice, Kate Menard, Genevieve Neal-Perry, Leslie Parise, and Nancy Thomas (SOM); Valerie Murrah (SOD).

Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, Cleveland Clinic Community Care. An ELUM at the institution is Karen Murray.

Chief, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. See above for ELUMs at the university.


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]

Chief of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Nicklaus Children's Health System, Miami, FL.

Division Chair, Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Associate Director of Clinical Research, Massey Cancer Center, Virginia Commonwealth University. See above for ELUMs at VCU.

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).

 
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).

Director of Student Health Services, University of Miami. ELUMs at the university are Lilian Abbo, Annie Burdick, Diana Cardenas, Latha Chandran, Sylvia Daunert, Norma Kenyon, Judy Schaechter, Omaida Velazquez (SOM).

Section Director of Clinical Microbiology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University. ELUMs at Case Western are Kristi Victoroff, Betsy Allen, Jennifer Bailit, Barbara Cromer, Alison Hall, Eleanor Harris, Lia Logio, Susan Nedorost, Cathy Sila, Abby Spencer, and Georgia Wiesner.

Director of Cytopathology/Director of Gynecological Pathology and Women’s Cancers, University of Oklahoma. ELUMs at the university are Suanne Daves, Susan Edwards, Marilyn Escobedo, Jane Fitch, and Pascale Lane (COM).
 
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).
 
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 Urology, Houston Methodist/Weill Cornell Medical College. ELUMs at Weill Cornell are Jenny Chang, Barbara Hempstead, Yoon Kang, Rainu Kaushal, Susan Pannullo, Monika Safford, and Rache Simmons; Thurayya Arayssi (Qatar).

Chair, Stanley H. Appel Department of Neurology, Houston Methodist. See above for ELUMs at Weill Cornell Medical College.

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 New York Times, November 17, 2020:
Ms. Parton donated $1 million to fund research for a coronavirus vaccine. After a promising announcement from a major drugmaker on Monday, fans are crediting her with helping to save the world from the virus.