ELAM Program Names 2022-2023 Class of Fellows
May 19, 2022
The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine is pleased to announce the selection of its 2022-2023 class of fellows and the fellows for its new program, Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH).
ELAM® is the only longitudinal program in North America dedicated to preparing women for senior leadership roles in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy. The prestigious program is dedicated to developing the professional and personal skills required to lead and manage in today's complex health care environment, with special attention to the unique challenges facing women in leadership positions. The ELAM program has been specially developed for senior women faculty at the associate or full professor level who demonstrate the greatest potential for assuming executive leadership positions at academic health centers within the next five years. The ELH program is designed for senior-level women leaders interested in advancing in hospitals and health care systems to positions such as CEO, CMO, CNO and CFO.
The effectiveness of ELAM's distinctive approach to leadership preparation is broadly recognized within the academic health community. ELAM alumnae number over 1,200 and serve in leadership positions at 295 academic health centers around the world. ELAM carries on the legacy of advancing women in medicine begun by the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the nation’s first degree-granting women’s medical school and a predecessor of Drexel University College of Medicine, where ELAM is hosted.
“To accommodate a very strong pool of applicants, we have accepted 72 fellows into the 2022-23 class of ELAM,” says Nancy D. Spector, MD, executive director of ELAM. “The application pool for this class was the largest ever, with a 25% increase over 2021-2022,” she added. “We are also excited to pilot our Executive Leadership in Health Care program with 27 fellows from around the country.”
“The women are exceptional leaders who are capable of making critical systemic change in their institutions. The need for the highest quality leaders in academic health care has never been greater, and we are doing everything we can to help meet that need by providing outstanding and innovative leadership training for women.”
In order to be accepted into the program, each fellow must be nominated and supported by the dean or other senior official of her institution. ELAM continues to cultivate strong partnerships with participating institutions throughout the yearlong fellowship. One aspect of this relationship is the curricular requirement to conduct an Institutional Action Project, developed in collaboration with the fellow’s dean or other senior official. These action projects are designed to address an institutional or departmental need or priority. “We are extremely excited to see the impact these women will have on their institutions as they work through the ELAM curriculum and develop their action projects,” explained Spector. “The projects the fellows conduct not only help them understand the challenges facing academic health centers and the skills a leader must possess to address these challenges, but also often result in concrete changes at their institutions.”
The work for this incoming class begins in June with online assignments and community-building activities that continue through the end of the program in April 2023.
2022 – 2023 ELAM Fellows
Tomi Akinyemiju, PhD, MS
Duke University School of Medicine
Laura Alonso, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
Lisa Auerbach, MD, MS, HPEd.
CUNY School of Medicine
Leah Backhus, MD, MPH
Stanford University School of Medicine
Amber Barnato, MD, MPH, MS
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Melissa Bauman, PhD
University of California Davis Health System
Mara Becker, MD, MSCE
Duke University School of Medicine
Rinad Beidas, PhD
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Ghada Bourjeily, MD, MA
Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University
Biykem Bozkurt, MD, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Diane Chico, PhD
Texas A&M University College of Medicine
Heather Clauss, MD
Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
Katherine Coyner, MD
University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Marie Crandall, MD, MPH
University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville
Clara Curiel, MD
University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson
Suzanne Danhauer, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Tracy de Peralta, DMD, PhD, MClinEd
University of Colorado Denver School of Dental Medicine
Louito Edje, MD, MHPE
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Felicity Enders, PhD, MPH
Mayo Clinic
Dana Farabaugh, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
Ruth Farrell, MD, MA
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Rosemarie Fernandez, MD
University of Florida College of Medicine
Dee Ford, MD
Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
Janna Friedly, MD, MPH
University of Washington
Karen Friedman, MD, MS
Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
Meg Frizzola, DO
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University
Monika Goyal, MD, MSCE
Children's National Medical Center
Elizabeth Grubbs, MD
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Chanita Halbert, PhD
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
April Hartman, MD
Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
Elizabeth Jackson, MD, MPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Angela Jefferson, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Ruth Keri, PhD
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Srividya Kidambi, MD, MS
Medical College of Wisconsin
KMarie King, MD, MS, MBA
Albany Medical College
Colleen Kraft, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Jennifer Kraschnewski, MD, MPH
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Daniela Ladner, MD, MPH
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Kara Laing, MD
Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty of Medicine
Anne Larkin, MD
UMass Chan Medical School
Kelsey Logan, MD, MPH
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Nathalie May, MD
Drexel University College of Medicine
Kathryn McQueen, MD, MPH
University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Laxmi Mehta, MD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Tracey Milligan, MD
New York Medical College
Nikita Mirajkar, PhD
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine- Georgia Campus
Anna Moore, PhD
Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Jeanette Morrison, MD
Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
Radha Nandagopal, MD
Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
Flavia Nobay, MD
University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Sung-Yun Pai, MD
National Institutes of Health
Pari Pandharipande, MD, MPH
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Nancy Pandhi, MD, MPH, PhD
University of New Mexico Health Science Center
Sara Pasquali, MD, MHS
University of Michigan Medical School
Priscilla Pemu, MD
Morehouse School of Medicine
Flavia Pirih, DDS, PhD
University of California, Los Angeles
Kristen Plastino, PharmD, MD
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe R. & Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine
Erin Pukenas, MD
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Elizabeth Rebello, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Heather Reisinger, PhD
The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Christine Riedy Murphy, PhD, MPH
Harvard School of Dental Medicine
Cynthia Rogers, MD
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Tamara Rozental, MD
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Lauren Sansing, MD, MS
Yale University School of Medicine
Yael Schenker, MD, MAS
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Irini Sereti, MD, MHS
National Institutes of Health
Maria Sheakley, PhD
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine
Vassiliki Tsikitis, MD, MBA
Oregon Health and Science University
Haimanot Wasse, MD, MPH
Rush University Medical Center
Stephanie White, MD
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Rebecca Wilcox, MD
University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine
Ashley Wysong, MD, MS
University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine
2022 – 2023 ELH Fellows
Debbie Aizenberg, MD
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Erica Bisson, MD
University of Utah School of Medicine
Holly Boyer, MD
University of Minnesota Medical School
Carol Cabral, MD
Albany Medical College
Teena Chopra, MD, MPH
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Zara Cooper, MD, MSc, FACS
Harvard Medical School
Guang Fan, MD, PhD
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
Andrea Fernandez, MD
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Anna Flattau, MD, MSc, MS
Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson University
Marissa Galicia-Castillo, MD
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Harminder Grewal, MD, MBBS, DGO
State University of New York Upstate Medical University
Patricia Hametz, MD, MPH
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Kendra Harris, MD, MSc
Tulane University School of Medicine
Miriam Hoffman, MD
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
Vicki Jackson, MD, MPH
Massachusetts General Hospital
Meredith Lind, MD
Nationwide Children's Hospital
Vineeta Mittal, MD, MBA
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
Elizabeth Nichols, MD
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Alina Popa, MD
University of California, Riverside School of Medicine
Carmen Quatman, MD, PhD
The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center
Vidya Raman, MD, MBA
The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Deanna Sasaki-Adams, MD
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Cardinale Smith, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Becky Smith, MD
Duke University Medical Center
Shubhika Srivastava, MD
Nemours Alfred I. Dupont Hospital for Children
Jennifer Takagishi, MD
University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine
Stacey Watt, MD, MBA
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Buffalo State University of New York