ELAM News
The ELAM program was mentioned in a March 4, 2023, New England Journal of Medicine article about the benefits of workforce diversity in medicine. Read more at New England Journal of Medicine.
Nancy Spector, MD, and Kheyandra D. Lewis, MD, MEd, a faculty member in Drexel's Department of Pediatrics, are two of the authors of "Association of Patient and Family Reports of Hospital Safety Climate With Language Proficiency in the US," which was published in JAMA Pediatrics (June 2022).
The ELAM program 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 (May 2022).
Nancy Spector, MD, Barbara Overholser, MA, and Jennifer K. O'Toole, MD, of University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, were co-editors of Women in Pediatrics: The Past, Present and Future, which was published by Springer (May 2022).
Nancy Spector, MD, was interviewed on the podcast Raise the Line. Her episode was "Bringing Gender Diversity to Medical Education Leadership" (January 2022).
ELAM Blog Post: Virtual Negotiation Training: Evidence That It Works. Gender-based disparities in academic medicine are well-known. Women earn less than men, even after controlling for rank, RVUs and grant funding, and the pipeline for talent leaks more as it gets to the top, with only 25% of full professors being female compared to 46% of assistant professors. Read more. (September 2021)