ELAM® Announces Graduation of 2010-2011 Class

April 20, 2011

The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine^® (ELAM) Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine is pleased to announce the graduation of its 16th class. The graduating class of 54 fellows joins a diverse community of nearly 700 alumnae leaders that represent almost 169 medical, dental, and public health schools from across the United States and Canada.

ELAM, established in 1995, is the only in-depth national program dedicated to preparing senior women faculty at schools of medicine, dentistry, and public health to move into positions of institutional leadership. The intensive fellowship encompasses executive education, personal leadership assessments and coaching, and networking and mentoring activities aimed at broadening perspectives, building new capacities, and encouraging professional connections. Program assignments, both group and individual, provide opportunities for applying what has been learned and exercising leadership in a variety of situations and settings.

The year-long fellowship concluded in April with the presentation of the fellows' Institutional Action Projects. These projects, which were developed in collaboration with the fellows' dean or other senior official, were conducted at their home institutions and designed to address an institutional or departmental need or priority. The projects were presented during ELAM's annual Forum on Emerging Issues.

"The 2010-2011 class was exceptional," acknowledges Diane Magrane, MD, director of Drexel University College of Medicine's International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics, which hosts the ELAM program. "The high quality of the Institutional Action Projects these fellows conducted demonstrates the knowledge gained of the depth and breadth of the challenges facing academic health centers, and the skills that a leader must possess to meet these challenges."

ELAM's mission is to increase the number of women in senior academic leadership positions. From there, these new appointments would help change the culture of academic health organizations in becoming more accepting of different perspectives and more responsive to societal needs and expectations. ELAM graduates now number close to 700 and serve in numerous leadership positions at the majority of US and Canadian academic health centers, including:

Five of the 17 current women deans at U.S. medical schools
Six of the 13 women deans at U.S. dental schools
Two of 14 women deans at U.S. public health schools

About ELAM

ELAM is a core program of the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pa. The Institute continues the legacy of advancing women in medicine that began in 1850 with the founding of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the nation's first women's medical school and a predecessor of today's Drexel University College of Medicine. For more information on the ELAM program curriculum, faculty and participants, visit www.drexelmed.edu/elam.

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2010-2011 ELAM Graduating Class

Julia D. Andrieni, MD	University of Massachusetts Medical School
Nancy S. Arbree, DDS, FACP	Tufts University School of Dental Medicine
Sandra K. Burge, PhD	University of Texas Medical School at San Antonio
Elizabeth S. Burnside, MD, MPH	University of Wisconsin at Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Melanie T. Cushion, PhD	University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Mary E. Dankoski, PhD	Indiana University School of Medicine
Elizabeth M. Datner, MD	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Sherin U. Devaskar, MD	University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Geri R. Donenberg, PhD	University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, DDS, PhD	University of Connecticut School of Dental Medicine
Nisha J. D'Silva, BDS, MSD, PhD	University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Lisa A. Elferink, PhD	University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Sheila J. Ellis, MD	University of Nebraska College of Medicine
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH	University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine
Laura M. Goetzl, MD, MPH	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
Gayle M. Gordillo, MD	The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Eleanor E. Harris, MD	University of South Florida College of Medicine
Tina V. Hartert, MD, MPH	Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Mary A. Hooks, MD, MBA	East Tennessee State University James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Susan L. Hyman, MD	University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Betsy G. Jones, EdD	Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Anne M. Kenny, MD	University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Eve A. Kerr, MD, MPH	University of Michigan Medical School
Lian Li, PhD	Emory University School of Medicine
Katherine F. Luzuriaga, MD	University of Massachusetts Medical School
Jeanette H. Magnus, MD, PhD	Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Michele Marcolongo, PhD	Drexel University
Shannon P. Marquez, PhD, MEng.	University of the Sciences
Christine E. Marx, MD, MA	Duke University School of Medicine
Carol M. Mason, MD	Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Susan T. Nedorost, MD	Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Lucia Notterpek, PhD	University of Florida College of Medicine
Ann-Christine Nyquist, MD, MSPH	University of Colorado School of Medicine
Susan C. Pannullo, MD	Joan & Sanford I. Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Susan M. Pepin, MD	Dartmouth Medical School
Linda C. Perkowski, PhD	University of Minnesota Medical School
Elizabeth E. Puscheck, MD, MS	Wayne State University School of Medicine
Ann M. Reed, MD	Mayo Medical School
Lesley Regan, MD, FRCOG, MBBS	Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine
Fonda G. Robinson, DMD	University of Kentucky College of Dentistry
Valerie L. Romero-Leggott, MD	University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Susan R. Rosenthal, MD, MS	University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Kathleen Ryan, MD	Drexel University College of Medicine
Marilyn M. Schapira, MD, MPH	Medical College of Wisconsin
Sylvia B. Smith, PhD	Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine
Kim M. Smith-Whitley, MD	University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Mary D. Stephenson, MD, MSc	University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences, The Pritzker School of Medicine
Jill Suttles, PhD	University of Louisville School of Medicine
Lynn T. Tanoue, MD	Yale University School of Medicine
Joanne Todesco, MD, FRCPC	University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine
Omaida C. Velazquez, MD, FACS	University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
Ora A. Weisz, PhD	University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Gretchen L. Wells, MD, PhD	Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Cynthia F. Wright, PhD	Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine