Gender-based disparities in academic medicine are well-known. While the etiology of these disparities is multifactorial, one of the potential issues identified is that women often feel less comfortable with negotiation than their male counterparts. Training in negotiation may equip women with these skills, and thereby help reduce the gaps that exist. But does such training actually work? Are there best practices? And how do we democratize such training for maximal benefit? Read the latest ELAM blog post from Anees B. Chagpar, MD, MSc, MPH, MA, MBA (ELAM '10) to learn more. 

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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.

Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine has appointed Erika T. Brown, PhD (ELAM ’15), as the medical school’s Dean of Faculty Affairs, effective December 13, 2021.

Jane Gibson, PhD (ELAM ’15), has been appointed associate dean for faculty affairs, and Annette Khaled, PhD (ELAM ’19), has been appointed assistant dean for faculty affairs at the University of Central Florida College of Medicine. Dr. Gibson is currently a tenured professor of pathology and serves as chair of the Department of Clinical Sciences there, and Dr. Khaled is a tenured professor of medicine there who also serves as head of the Division of Cancer Research at the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences.

Andrea Hayes-Jordan, MD (ELAM ’20) was appointed as the Chair of the Department of Surgery and Associate Director of Howard University Hospital. She will be the first woman chair of the surgery department at Howard. She was also recently elected to the Council for the American Board of Surgery.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has appointed Marsha Wills-Karp, PhD, MS (ELAM’08), as a Bloomberg Centennial Professor. This is an endowed position supported by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative through a gift from Bloomberg Philanthropies.

Laila A. Gharzai, Kent A. Griffith, Whitney H. Beeler, Heather L. Burrows, Maya M. Hammoud, Phillip E. Rodgers, Michael S. Sabel, John M. Carethers, and Reshma Jagsi

Arghavan Salles, Reshma Jagsi

Sotto-Santiago, Sylk EdD, MBA, MPS; Poll-Hunter, Norma PhD; Trice, Traci MD; Buenconsejo-Lum, Lee MD; Golden, Sherita MD, MHS; Howell, Joy MD; Jacobs, Nicole PhD; Lee, Winona MD; Mason, Hyacinth PhD, MPH; Ogunyemi, Dotun MD; Crespo, Waleska PhD; Lamba, Sangeeta MD, MS-HPEd

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Allison S.McBride MD, Evelyn Y.Anthony MD, FACR, Julie A.Freischlag MD

Kalet, Adina; Libby, Anne M.; Jagsi, Reshma; Brady, Kathleen; Chavis-Keeling, Deborah; Pillinger, Michael H.; Daumit, Gail L.; Drake, Amelia F.; Drake, Wonder Puryear; Fraser, Victoria; Ford, Daniel; Hochman, Judith S.; Jones, Rochelle D.; Mangurian, Christina; Meagher, Emma A.; McGuinness, Georgeann; Regensteiner, Judith G.; Rubin, Deborah C.; Yaffe, Kristine; Ravenell, Joseph E.

The pay gap between men and women in academic science is bigger than it is in industry, according to a new analysis of federal survey data. What might it take to close that gap?

An analysis of scientists’ networks finds discrepancies in the diffusion of novel ideas through communities.

Today on the Academic Minute: Leanne Dzubinski, associate professor of intercultural education and study at Biola University, explores how to measure gender bias.

The organizers behind a Mothers in Science conference say that it’s time academia provide more support to researchers who are pregnant or looking after children.

HealthDay covered a research letter, published online on Aug. 30 in JAMA Network Open, focused on how the growth of women and racial and ethnic minorities in academic medicine is still lagging, though women are making gains. The research is based in part on AAMC Faculty Roster data.

Physicians are raising awareness of the reproductive toll that work stress, long hours, sleep deprivation and years of training can exact.

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton’s G. Richard Shell explains how “the power of two” can help when you are faced with a moral or ethical dilemma at work.

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) seeks working group members to support the AAMC’s Strategic Plan Action Plan 1: Strengthen the medical education continuum for transformed health care and learning environments focused on the Association’s efforts in support of medical schools and teaching hospitals construction of an equitable, inclusive, and anti-racist learning environments. Working closely with a core team of AAMC staff members, the working group will focus their efforts on a project to provide educators and administrators at AAMC member medical schools and teaching institutions with the tools and resources needed to address and eliminate racist practices in the learning environment. Click here to see the Call for more details. Deadline: Sept 30, 2021

A functioning healthcare system requires trust on many levels. In its simplest form, this is the trust between an individual patient and their physician that allows for candor, autonomy, informed decisions, and compassionate care. Trust is a central component of medical education, as trainees gradually earn the trust of their supervisors to achieve autonomy. And, on a much larger scale, societal trust in science, the facts, and the medical system influences individual and group decisions that can have far-reaching consequences.

In partnership with the ABIM Foundation, the Journal of Hospital Medicine will explore the concept of trust in all facets of healthcare and medical education, including understanding the drivers of trust in a multitude of settings and in different relationships (patient-clinician, clinician-trainee, clinician- or trainee-organization, health system-community), interventions to build trust, and the enablers of those interventions. To this end, we are seeking articles that explore or evaluate trust. These include original research, brief reports, perspectives, and Leadership & Professional Development articles. Articles focusing on trust should be submitted by December 31, 2021.

Dean, Albany Medical College. ELUMs at the institution are Stephanie Jones, Becky Rogers, Ellen Cosgrove, Barbara Ostrov, Julie Pilitsis, Sophia Socaris.

Vice President and Assistant Dean, Graduate Medical Education, Medical College of Wisconsin/ThedaCare. 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, Earnestine Willis.

Chief Clinical Officer, C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and Von Voigtlander Women’s Hospital/University of Michigan Health. 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, Erika Newman, Valerie Opipari, Lisa Prosser, Michelle Riba, Caroline Richardson, Catherine Spires, Denise Tate (Medical School); Nisha D'Silva, Margherita Fontana, Jan Ching-Chun Hu, Lynn Johnson, Marilyn Woolfolk (SOD); Bhramar Mukherjee (SOPH).

Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Northeast Ohio Medical Center.

Chair, Department of Dermatology, University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Lois Geist, Isabella Grumbach, Donna Hammond, Loreen Herwaldt, Sue O'Dorisio, Susan Schultz, Patricia Winokur, Cynthia Wong, Catherine Woodman (COM); Betsy Chrischilles, Corinne Peek-Asa (COPH); Erica Teixeira (COD).

Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. ELUMs at the COM – Tucson are Julie Bauman, Setsuko Chambers, Mindy Fain, Monica Kraft, Myra Muramoto, Kathryn Reed, Taylor Riall, Anne Wright, Wei Zhou.

Executive Director, Addgene.

Senior Investigator and Chief, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health. ELUMs at the NIH Diana Bianchi, Rena D'Souza, Cindy Dunbar, Karen Frank, Maureen Goodenow, Lisa Halvorson, Janice Lee, Holly Lisanby, Mariana Morris, Julie Segre, Debara Tucci, Martha Zeiger.

Chair, Department of Family and Community Medicine, 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, Caroline Shiboski, Claire Brindis (SOD).

Vice Chair of Education and Residency Program Director, Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine. ELUMs at Tufts are Rachel Buchsbaum, Karen Freund, Caroline Genco, Simin Meydani (SOM); Aruna Ramesh (SODM).

Chief of Psychiatry/Vice-Chair, Community Psychiatry, Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital/Brigham and Women's Hospital. An ELUM at Brigham and Women’s is Ellen Gravallese. ELUMs at Harvard are Maryam Asgari, Terrie Inder, Sharon Inouye, Barbara Kahn, Deborah Levine, Madhu Misra, Emily Oken, Susan Redline, Hope Ricciotti, Julie Silver, Gyongyi Szabo, Jeanine Wiener-Kronish, Joanne Wolfe (Medical School); Sang Park (SODM); Karen Emmons (SOPH);

Chief, Division of Pediatric Pulmonology/Batchelor Family Chair of Cystic Fibrosis and Pediatric Pulmonology, Department of Pediatrics, 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.

Division Chief, Colorectal Surgery, 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).

Division Chief, Endocrinology, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. ELUMs at UC Irvine are Ruth Benca, Daniela Bota, Coleen Cunningham, Deena McRae.

Division Chief, Rheumatology, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. See above for ELUMs at UC Irvine.

Division Chief, Cardiothoracic Imaging – Academic Radiologist, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine. See above for ELUMs at UC Irvine. 

Chair/Chief Department of Family Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the Care New England Health System. ELUMs at the university are Angie Caliendo, Kimberle Chapin-Robertson, Phyllis Dennery, Alyson McGregor, Audrey Tyrka.

Director, Early Phase Developmental Therapy Program, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Washington, DC.

Division Chair, Hematology, Oncology, and Palliative Care, Virginia Commonwealth University Health. 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. 

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.

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:

SSM Health President, St. Joseph Hospital – St. Charles and St. Joseph Hospital – Wentzville.

Endowed Chair in Healthy Aging and Geriatrics, University of California, Davis. ELUMs at UC Davis are Allison Brashear, 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.

Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Michigan Medical School. See above for ELUMs at the university.

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.

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 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 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.

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, 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).

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).

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).

Division Chief, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, Houston Methodist.

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). 

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Centuries of folklore backed by scientists in the early 1900s have perpetuated the idea that menstruating women can exert dangerous forces.