ELAM 30th Anniversary Awards

The Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) program invites you to nominate deserving candidates for our 30^th Anniversary Awards! The awards will be presented on May 1, 2025, in Philadelphia at ELAM’s 30^th Anniversary celebration.

If you would like to submit a nomination or nominations, please follow the link below to the online nomination portal.

MAKE A NOMINATION

The closing date for nominations is Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. EDT.

IMPORTANT: Before beginning the nomination submission process, please click on the nomination portal link and create an account. You may then log into the portal. You will be prompted to enter the nominator name, organization, contact information and relationship to ELAM. Once this information is entered, click the SAVE button at the bottom to open the next screen with the list of awards. Select an award from the list and you will be directed to that nomination screen. You will then enter the nominee’s name, contact information, relationship to ELAM/ELH, responses to the required text fields and you will attach the required documents [CV and letter(s) of support].

PLEASE NOTE: Nominators may submit multiple nominations via the same account (i.e. you do not need to create separate login credentials for each nomination).

Contact Janine Barber at jkb48@drexel.edu with any questions or problems accessing the nomination portal.

ELUM Compass Award

The ELUM Compass award is presented to an ELUM whose work and activities are trail blazing toward some or all of the following quadruple aims:

Improving the health of populations
Enhancing the experience of care for individuals
Modeling appropriate use of health care resources
Attaining joy in work

Through substantial and sustained commitment, this individual has imagined, created, refined or implemented innovations that enhance the well-being of society. She may have bettered the delivery of care through broadening access, removing barriers, advancing the quality of outcomes, or lessening the burden of interventions. The individual ennobles her profession through personal action, and program building that prevents burnout, enhances self-care and supports the humanism of physicians, dentists, scientists and others engaged in the art of medicine and the practice of science.

Click here to review the requirements for nomination. [pdf]

Transformational Leadership Award

This award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated outstanding and visionary leadership that has contributed significantly to cultural transformation. This individual encourages, inspires, mentors and sponsors a diverse, inclusive and equitable group of clinicians, scientists, educators and staff. This transformational leader motivates others to innovate and create change that will help grow and shape the future success of women and under-represented in medicine and the health sciences leading to a more just and equitable culture.

Click here to review the requirements for nomination. [pdf]

Institutional Award for the Advancement of Women in Medicine and the Sciences

This award is given to an institution, organization, or health care system that has demonstrated through word, deed and outcomes a commitment to assuring equitable access to educational and career opportunities, as well as the highest offices of the professions.

Click here to review the requirements for nomination. [pdf]

Laura Lynch ELAM/ELH Community Impact Award

The Laura Lynch ELAM/ELH Community Impact Award recognizes an individual or individuals who have made a significant and positive impact on the ELAM/ELH community. Recipients demonstrate professionalism, commitment and unwavering dedication to fellows, ELUMs, faculty, staff and/or other community members, inspiring others to use their talents and energy to advance the ELAM/ELH program and make a difference in achieving gender equity in academic medicine and/or hospital systems.

This awardee will receive an award of $1,000.

Criteria:
Nominee must be an ELAM/ELH fellow, ELUM, dean/sponsor, speaker, mentor or other leader closely connected to ELAM/ELH.

Nominees are expected to possess or demonstrate a combination of the following qualities as delineated below:

A change agent with leadership qualities that inspire, influence and encourage other members of the ELAM/ELH community to effect positive change for the program.
Displays mentorship to ELAM/ELH community members: demonstrates positive values and behaviors that influence others to emulate or aspire to emulate. Please cite specific examples.
Demonstrates a commitment to gender equity in medicine such as participation on gender equity committees, DEI leadership at institution or organization, or published articles on gender equity in academic medicine and/or hospital systems.
Amplifies the mission of ELAM/ELH through networking, social media engagement, published articles and/or panel/speaking appearances.

Click here to review the requirements for nomination. [pdf]

About Laura Lynch:
Laura Lynch, who had served as ELAM's program director since 2006, passed away on February 3, 2023. Laura shepherded hundreds of fellows through the program and stayed in close contact with them as they became ELUMs. She was the historian of the program and provided incredible insight. She led with humor and brought laughter and joy to our office. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the program and to our community. This award was created in her honor and in recognition of her commitment to the ELAM community.