ELAM Names New Class of Fellows

May 5, 2014

The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) program at Drexel University College of Medicine is pleased to announce the selection of its 2014-2015 class of fellows.

This is the 20th incoming class for ELAM®, the only program in North America dedicated to preparing women for senior leadership roles in academic health science institutions, where they enhance institutional leadership diversity while contributing to organizational strategy and innovation. The one-year, part-time program combines three week-long in-residence sessions with distance learning, designed to take the leadership lessons gained from the classroom to practice in the fellows’ institutions.

“The curriculum addresses four major competencies of academic leadership,” said Diane Magrane, MD, director of Drexel’s International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics, which supports the program. “Fellows enter the program with a great capacity for leading organizational change – ELAM gives them the tools, road map, and confidence needed to make an impact on their institutions and beyond.”

Each fellow is supported by the dean or other senior official of her institution in her nomination for the program and continued mentorship. One aspect of this relationship is the curricular requirement to conduct an Institutional Action Project, developed in collaboration with the senior leadership. These action projects are designed to address a strategic institutional priority. Magrane explains, “The fellows’ projects 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, positive changes at their institutions.”

Upon completion of the one-year fellowship in April 2015, the 54 members of this class will join a community of over 800 alumnae – all highly accomplished women serving in a variety of leadership positions around the world, including department chairs, research center directors, deans and college presidents, as well as chief executives in health care and accrediting organizations.

The work for this incoming class begins in May with online assignments and community-building activities that continue through the end of the program in April 2015. Fellows begin the first of three week-long, in-residence sessions when they meet for the first time at the ACE Conference Center in Lafayette Hill, PA, on September 6, 2014.

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. Learn more about ELAM program curriculum, faculty and participants.

2014-2015 ELAM Fellows

Eva Marie Aagaard, MD University of Colorado School of Medicine	Eliana Martorano Amaral, MD, PhD State University of Campinas - School of Medical Sciences- UNICAMP
Susan Marie Anderson, MD University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine	Jessica L. Bienstock, MD, MPH Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Diane C. Bodurka, MD University of Texas- MD Anderson Cancer Center	Adrienne Deyo Bonham, MD University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Marie Leslie Borum, MD, Ed.D., MPH George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences	Chantal Brazeau, MD Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Arleen F. Brown, MD, PhD University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA	Erika T. Brown, PhD Morehouse School of Medicine
Vivian Budnik, PhD University of Massachusetts Medical School	Wendy Chapman, PhD University of Utah School of Medicine
Tracie Chianti Collins, MD, MPH University of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita	Tamera Coyne-Beasley, MD, MPH The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Chinazo Cunningham, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University	Vani Dandolu, MD, MPH, MBA University of Nevada School of Medicine
Lisa J. Edelmann, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	Cynthia Neill Epperson, MD Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Monica Marie Farley, MD Emory University School of Medicine	Geraldine Fox, MD, MHPE University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Priscilla Anne Furth, MD Georgetown University School of Medicine	Mary P. Gallant, PhD, MPH University of Albany SUNY School of Public Health
Nisha Jain Garg, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	Jane Strandberg Gibson, PhD University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Mary T. Hawn, MD, MPH University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine	Wendy Louise Hobson-Rohrer, MD, MSPH University of Utah School of Medicine
Kimberly G. Hoffman, PhD University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine	Terrie Eleanor Inder, MD, PhD Harvard Medical School
Lynnea Ann Johnson, PhD University of Michigan School of Dentistry	Janet A. Jokela, MD, MPH University of Illinois College of Medicine- Urbana-Champaign
Marcia Fay Katz, MD Baylor College of Medicine	Rainu Kaushal, MD, MPH Weill Cornell Medical College
Karen Eun-Young Kim, MD University of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences, The Pritzker School of Medicine	Mary M. Lee, MD University of Massachusetts Medical School
Lorelei Anne Lingard, PhD University of Western Ontario Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry	Robinna Gail Lorenz, MD, PhD University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Lucinda J. Lyon, RDH, DDS, EdD University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry	Beth Ann Malow, MD, MS Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Patricia Mary Manning-Courtney, MD University of Cincinnati College of Medicine	Barbara Ann Miller, MD Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Amy Patricia Murtha, MD Duke University School of Medicine	Susan M. Perlis, EdD Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
Carrie A Redlich, MD, MPH Yale University School of Medicine	Cynthia Reyes, MD University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Taylor Sohn Riall, MD, PhD University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston	Hope A. Ricciotti, MD Harvard Medical School
Pamela D. Sass, MD SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine	Susan K. Schultz, MD The University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
Angela M. Sharkey, MD Saint Louis University School of Medicine	Martha Smith Tingen, PhD Georgia Regents University Medical College of Georgia
Ezgi Tiryaki, MD University of Minnesota Medical School	Consuelo Hopkins Wilkins, MD, MS Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Amy Watt Williams, MD Mayo Medical School	Jennifer Pelt Wisdom, PhD, MPH The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services