This is the 22nd 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.
“We are once again thrilled to welcome to the ELAM Fellowship such a diverse and exceptional group of women, chosen from a highly competitive pool,” said Nancy Spector, MD, ELAM’s incoming director. “The skills in strategic finance, organizational change, and leadership that these women will be honing and practicing over this coming fellowship year will increase their capacity for leading organizational change in their own 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. The work of the fellowship is aimed to not only help participants 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 2017, the 54 members of this class will join a community of over 1,000 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 June with online assignments and community building activities that continue through the end of the program in April 2017. Fellows begin the first of three week-long, in-residence sessions when they meet for the first time at the Chubb Hotel and Conference Center in Lafayette Hill, Pa., on September 17, 2016.
Nita Ahuja, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Martha Alexander-Miller, PhD
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Terri L. Ashmeade, MD
University of South Florida Health Morsani
College of Medicine
Karen Marie Basen-Engquist, PhD, MPH
The University of Texas
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Laura Marie Borgelt, PharmD
University of Colorado Denver School of Pharmacy
Dawn S. Bragg, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Cynthia Jean Brown, MD, MSPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Medicine
Kathryn Marie Cardarelli, PhD
University of Kentucky College of Public Health
Jenny Chee Ning Chang, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
Jennifer G. Christner, MD
Baylor College of Medicine
Rebecca Miriam Cunningham, MD
University of Michigan Medical School
Nancy DeMore, MD
Medical University of South Carolina
College of Medicine
Linda A. DiMeglio, MD, MPH
Indiana University School of Medicine
Sharmila Dissanaike, MD
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
Linda Duska, MD, MPH
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Corita Grudzen, MD
New York University School of Medicine
Ming Guo, MD, PhD
University of California, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Odette Althea Harris, MD, MPH
Stanford University School of Medicine
Alyssa Hasty, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Christy Katherine Holland, PhD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Amy Laura Holthouser, MD
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Jan Ching-Chun Hu, BDS, PhD
University of Michigan School of Dentistry
Rebecca Sofia Jacobson, MD, MS
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Narmin Kassam, MD, MHPE
University of Alberta
Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Dawn Olson Kleindorfer, MD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Sangeeta Lamba, MD, MSHPEd
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Nita A. Limdi, PharmD, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
School of Medicine
Lia Suzanne Logio, MD
Weill Cornell Medical College
Yvonne W. Lui, MD
New York University School of Medicine
Annette Marie Medina-Walpole, MD
University of Rochester
School of Medicine and Dentistry
Mary Maral Mouradian, MD
Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Myra Lee Muramoto, MD, MPH
University of Arizona College of Medicine
Kathryn Ann Myers, MD, EdM
University of Western Ontario Schulich
School of Medicine & Dentistry
Dianne Ruth Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD
University of Minnesota School of Public Health
Vivian Teresa Obeso, MD
Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Suzette Oyeku, MD, MPH
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University
Leslie Joan Parent, MD
Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine
Roberta Pileggi, DDS, MS
University of Florida College of Dentistry
Margareta Danuta Pisarska, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Arnyce Pock, MD
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine
Susan Marie Pollart, MD
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Heather Marie Prendergast, MD, MS, MPH
University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Angeles Badell Ribera, PhD
University of Colorado School of Medicine
Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Medical College of Wisconsin
Nancy E. Schoenberg, PhD
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Pam K. Shaw, MD
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Pamela Sklar, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Elizabeth R. Trowbridge, MD
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Jayne S. Weiss, MD
Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH
Harvard Medical School
Wei Tse Yang, MD
The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center
Kimberly A Yonkers, MD
Yale University School of Medicine
Laine Michelle Young-Walker, MD
University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine