ELAM Program Announces Graduation of 2013-2014 Class

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 graduation of its 19th class. This graduating class of fellows joins a diverse community of over 770 alumnae leaders that represent over 180 medical, dental, and public health schools from around the world.

ELAM®, established in 1995, 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 intensive fellowship encompasses executive education, personal leadership assessments and coaching, and networking and mentoring activities aimed at broadening perspectives, building new capacities, and encouraging professional connections. Program assignments, both group and individual, provide opportunities for applying and exercising leadership skills in a variety of situations and settings.

The members of the 2014 graduating class of ELAM are joining a community of highly accomplished leaders. Over 800 alumnae around the world serve in a variety of leadership positions including department chairs, research center directors, deans and college presidents as well as chief executives in health care and accrediting organizations.

The year-long fellowship concluded in April with the capstone event, the 2014 Leaders Forum. This event, which brought together the fellows and their deans or other senior officials, featured a poster symposium highlighting the fellows’ Institutional Action Projects. These projects were conducted at their home institutions and designed to address an institutional or departmental need or priority.

“The projects conducted by this year’s class of fellows were extraordinary,” said Diane Magrane, executive director of the International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics, which supports the ELAM program. The quality and impact of these projects is a testament to the capability of the members of this class to enact powerful systemic change at their home institutions and beyond.”

ELAM’s mission is to increase the number and impact of women in senior academic leadership positions. From there, these new appointments will help change the culture of academic health organizations in becoming more accepting of different perspectives and more responsive to societal needs and expectations. ELAM graduates now number more than 800, and serve in numerous leadership positions – department head through university president – at over 195 academic health centers and organizations internationally. Currently, ELAM graduates number:

Ten of the 20 current women deans at U.S. medical schools
Seven of the 11 women deans at U.S. dental schools
One of 15 women deans at U.S. public health schools
In addition, four ELAM graduates are deans of U.S. graduate schools
122 department chairs at medical schools, 11 at dental schools, and 7 at public health schools
43 chief executive or academic officers (presidents and chief executive officers, provosts)
19 associate/vice/senior associate provosts
41 vice presidents

2013-2014 ELAM Graduating Class

Marsha S. Anderson, MD University of Colorado School of Medicine	Gladys Maria Ayala, MD, MPH New York Medical College
Lynne Taylor Bemis, PhD University of Minnesota Medical School	Lori A. Boardman, MD, ScM University of Central Florida College of Medicine
Maria Elena Bottazzi, PhD Baylor College of Medicine	Diane Wolf Braza, MD Medical College of Wisconsin
Ruth C. Carlos, MD University of Michigan Medical School	Mercedes Renee Carnethon, PhD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Millicent King Channell, DO University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine	Linda Chaudron, MD University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
Susan Chubinskaya, PhD Rush Medical College of Rush University	Lorraine M. Conroy, ScD University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
Cynthia Elizabeth Dunbar, MD National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute	Francesca Colecraft Dwamena, MD Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Helen Link Egger, MD Duke University School of Medicine	Dee E. Fenner, MD University of Michigan Medical School
Digna Saunders Forbes, MD Meharry Medical College School of Medicine	Jeanne-Marie Guise, MD, MPH Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine
Barbara L. Hempstead, MD, PhD Weill Cornell Medical College	Cherri D. Hobgood, MD Indiana University School of Medicine
Debra E. Houry, MD, MPH Emory University School of Medicine	Denise Marie Hynes, PhD, MPH, RN University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Sharon K. Inouye, MD, MPH Harvard Medical School	Beth Diane Kirkpatrick, MD University of Vermont College of Medicine
Anh Dao Le, DDS, PhD University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine	Janice S. Lee, DDS, MD, MS University of California, San Francisco, School of Dentistry
Sharon S. Lehman, MD Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University	Jennifer Katherine Lodge, PhD Washington University School of Medicine
Ambika Mathur, PhD Wayne State University School of Medicine	Sarah E. Millar, PhD Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
Eileen Marie Moser, MD Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine	Leigh Neumayer, MD, MS University of Utah School of Medicine
Anuradha Paranjape, MD, MPH Temple University School of Medicine	Tassy Parker, PhD, RN University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Elizabeth Kimberli Peck, MD Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine	Irina Petrache, MD Indiana University School of Medicine
Ismene L. Petrakis, MD Yale University School of Medicine	Carla M. Pugh, MD, PhD University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Jane Frances Reckelhoff, PhD University of Mississippi School of Medicine	Sheila Riggs, DDS, DMSc University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
Monica A. Shaw, MD University of Louisville School of Medicine	Elizabeth Ann Shenkman, PhD University of Florida College of Medicine
Melissa Andrea Simon, MD, MPH Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine	Maureen A. Smith, MD, PhD, MPH University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health
Anna Spagnoli, MD The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine	Tamara L. Thomas, MD Loma Linda University School of Medicine
Leslie Renee Walker-Harding, MD University of Washington School of Medicine	Karen Patricia Williams, PhD Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
Yolanda H. Wimberly, MD, MSc Morehouse School of Medicine	Shanta M. Zimmer, MD University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine