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In Memory of D. Walter Cohen, DDS
It is with heavy hearts that we dedicate this issue of the
ELAM Edge to the memory of
D. Walter Cohen, DDS, chancellor emeritus of Drexel University College of Medicine, and a co-founder of ELAM. Dr. Cohen passed away on June 29, 2018.
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ELAM receives the 2004 American Dental Association's Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Education Fund Award. L to R: Edward Shils, Page Morahan, D. Walter Cohen, and Rosalyn Richman |
Dr. Cohen helped
blaze the trail for women leaders in academic medicine and beyond. From Page Morahan, founding director of ELAM:
"Walter was the driving force for ELAM. When he became president of the then Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP), he felt that our legacy as the first medical school for women was a hidden pearl that he wanted to shine light on. I will never forget the exhibit he sponsored, showing the history, and ending up with a very insightful (and troubling) last panel. It showed that MCP had produced most of the women physicians in the early 1900s, they were a significant proportion of the physician work force and were leaders of their local and state medical groups. However, by the mid-1900s, the proportion of women practicing medicine in the U.S. was actually LESS than it was earlier in the century. About that time, Walter and Patty Cormier began working with the Jessie Ball duPont Fund to start the ELAM program."
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Walter Cohen, far left, presents Lorraine Fitzpatrick, far right, with her ELAM graduation certificate at the graduation of the first ELAM class in 2016. Also pictured, center left, Page Morahan, and center right, Rosalyn Richman.
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Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) was launched in 1995 with a class of 25 fellows. In the nearly 25 years that ELAM has been in existence, more than 1,000 women have graduated from the program and have ascended to leadership positions at institutions around the world.
By bringing ELAM into the world, Walter Cohen made a concrete, measurable impact on the number of women in academic leadership positions. His important work with ELAM led to the development of its sister program, ELATE, for senior women faculty in academic engineering, computer science, and other science fields.
As Nancy Spector, executive director of ELAM explains, "ELAM lost one of its brightest lights when it lost D. Walter Cohen. Dr. Cohen was a visionary leader who changed the conversation around women in leadership in academic medicine. His impact can't be overestimated. But beyond that, he was one of the most brilliant, humble and kind people I have known. His loss will be deeply felt by the ELAM and academic healthcare community."
We send our deepest condolences to his family.
Upcoming ELUM Events!
Please plan to join us for these upcoming ELUM events:
Please join ELAM Executive Director Nancy Spector, MD, for an ELAM/ELUM Networking reception at Kitchen Notes restaurant at the Omni Hotel in Nashville.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
6 - 8 p.m.
Omni Hotel
250 Fifth Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37203
October 17, 2018 FemInEM Conference, New York City
6 - 8pm (Location TBD)
November 4, 2018 AAMC Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
Time and location TBD
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President
, University of Wisconsin Hospitals, Madison Region. Submitted by Witt/Kieffer.
[Note that ELUM Joyce De Leo is a Consultant with Witt/Kieffer.]
ELUMs at the university are Ruth Benca, Beth Burnside, Molly Carnes, Valerie Gilchrist, Ellen Hartenbach, Pat Kokotailo, Elizabeth Petty, Carla Pugh, Nancy Raymond, Christie Seibert, Maureen Smith, and Terri Young (Madison SOM and PH).
[Note that ELUM Joyce De Leo is a Consultant with Witt/Kieffer.] ELUMs at the university are Karen Freund and Simin Meydani (SOM).
[Note that ELUM Joyce De Leo is a Consultant with Witt/Kieffer.] ELUMs at the university are Adrienne Bonham, Linda Chaudron, Yuhchyau Chen, Mary Dombovy, Diane Hartmann, Susan Hyman, Vivian Lewis, Susan McDaniel, and Janet Williams (SOM and D).
Chair and Department Executive Officer, Department of Family Medicine, Carver College of Medicine at The University of Iowa. Submitted by Isaacson Miller. ELUMs at the university are Lois Geist, Donna Hammond, Loreen Herwaldt, Susan Johnson, Sue O'Dorisio, Susan Schultz, Debra Schwinn, Debra Waldron, Patricia Winokur, Cynthia Wong, and Catherine Woodman (COM); Lily Garcia (COD); Betsy Chrischilles, and Corinne Peek-Asa (COPH).
Chair, Department of Surgery, University of Michigan Medical School. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the university are Carol Bradford, Sally Camper, Ruth Carlos, Eva Feldman, Dee Fenner, Carmen Green, Margaret Gyetko, Hope Haefner, Diane Harper, Ella Kazerooni, Eve Kerr, Karin Muraszko, Valerie Opipari, Michelle Riba, Caroline Richardson, Catherine Spires, and Denise Tate (Medical School); Nisha D'Silva, Margherita Fontana, Lynn Johnson, and Carol Anne Murdoch-Kinch (SOD).
Georgia Carroll Chair in Women's Health, Medical College of Wisconsin. Submitted by Millican Solutions. ELUMs at MCW are Diane Braza, Pat Donohoue, Beth Drolet, Libby Ellinas, Judy Kersten, Karen Marcdante, Mary Otterson, Julie Panepinto, Ann Rosenthal, and Earnestine Willis.
Chair, Department of Pediatrics/Physician in Chief, University of Massachusetts Medical School/UMass Memorial Health Care Children's Medical Center. Submitted by Phillips DiPisa. ELUMs at the university are Viv Budnik, Debbie DeMarco, Ellen Gravallese, Julia Johnson, Jean King, Mary Lee, Katherine Luzuriaga, Michele Pugnaire, Gyongyi Szabo, and Luanne Thorndyke.
Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the university are Wendy Brewster, Jan Busby-Whitehead, Julie Byerley, Nancy Chescheir, Giselle Corbie-Smith, Tamera Coyne-Beasley, Joanne Jordan, Melina Kibbe, Suzanne Landis, Kate Menard, Leslie Parise, and Nancy Thomas (SOM); Valerie Murrah (SOD).
Chair, Department of Pathology/Chief of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine/Yale-New Haven Hospital. ELUMs at Yale are Ferne Braveman, Anees Chagpar, Gail D'Onofrio, Rosemarie Fisher, Diane Krause, Carolyn Mazure, Ismene Petrakis, Marina Picciotto, Carrie Redlich, and Lynn Tanoue (SOM); Melinda Pettigrew (SOPH).
Director, Office of Regulatory Affairs, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health. Submitted by Adz, Etc. ELUMs at the NIH are Diana Bianchi, Cindy Dunbar, Maureen Goodenow, Janice Lee, Holly Lisanby, Susan Shurin, Hannah Valantine.
A number of positions were submitted by the search firm Merritt Hawkins:
Endowed Chair in Geriatric Psychiatry, Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at University of Texas Health San Antonio. ELUMs at UT Health San Antonio are Robin Brey, Sandra Burge, Carlayne Jackson, Jan Patterson, Paula Shireman, Gail Tomlinson, and Janet Williams (SOM); Adriana Segura (SOD).
Chair, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Minnesota Medical School. ELUMs at the university are Lynne Bemis, Iris Borowsky, Linda Carson, Maria Hordinsky, Arti Prasad, Betsy Seaquist, Jill Siegfried, and Ezgi Tiryaki (Medical School); Paula Termuhlen (Medical School - Duluth); Judith Buchanan and Sheila Riggs (SOD); Beth Virnig (SOPH).
Medical Director, Adult Emergency Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Jessica Bienstock, Joann Bodurtha, Barbara Fivush, and Colleen Koch (SOM); Marsha Wills-Karp (SOPH).
A number of positions were submitted by the search firm Korn Ferry:
[
Note that ELUM Deborah Wing is a Senior Client Partner at Korn Ferry.]
President
, International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement.
Chair, Department of Neurology, University of Chicago. ELUMs at the university are Yolanda Becker, Halina Brukner, Deborah Burnet, Jessica Kandel, Karen Kaul, Karen Kim, and Funmi Olopade (SOM).
Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Executive Director, Women's Healthcare Service Line
, Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. ELUMs at the Wake Forest University are Sarah Berga, Allison Brashear, Sonia Crandall, Debra Diz, Julie Freischlag, Amy McMichael, Katherine Poehling, Sally Shumaker, and Lynne Wagenknecht (SOM).
Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, Nationwide Children's, Columbus, OH.
Chief of Transplant Surgery
, Upstate Medical University School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Leslie Kohman and Margaret Turk.
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Annie Burdick, Diana Cardenas, Sylvia Daunert, Norma Kenyon, Judy Schaechter, and Omaida Velazquez (SOM).
Chief, Division of Neonatology
, University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. ELUMs at the university are Terri Ashmeade, Julie Djeu, Pat Emmanuel, Cathy Lynch, Lynn Moscinski, Kailie Shaw, and Lynn Wecker (COM).
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Ruth Bush, MD, MPH, will be associate dean for medical education at the planned University of Houston medical college.
Kathryn Horn, MD (ELAM '13), will be associate dean for student affairs, admissions, and outreach. David Buck, MD, will be associate dean for community health. Dr. Bush previously served as professor at Baylor College of Medicine; Dr. Horn previously served in various leadership and faculty roles at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso; and Dr. Buck previously served as a professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.
Melissa Simon, M.D., M.P.H. (ELAM '14)
was awarded the Presidential Award in Mathematics, Science and Engineering Mentoring.
AAMC CFAS News, June 21, 2018:
Last week, the AAMC hosted its 2018 Leadership Forum, which focused on community engagement. A number of CFAS Administrative Board members and representatives attended the event, which featured presentations by
Consuelo H. Wilkins, MD, MSCI (ELAM '15), executive director of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Alliance at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Meharry Medical College, and Camara P. Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, senior fellow at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute and Cardiovascular Research Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine, among many others.
If you have news about yourself, your ELAM Learning Community, or other ELUMs that you would like to share in the
Edge, please send it to
[email protected].
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Academic Medicine, Published Ahead-of-Print, June 26, 2018:
Price, David W., MD; Biernacki, Helene;
Nora, Lois Margaret, MD, JD, MBA
Academic Medicine, Volume 97, Issue 7, July 2018:
Shah, Darshana T.; Williams, Valerie N
.; Thorndyke, Luanne E.; Marsh, E. Eugene;
Sonnino, Roberta E.; Block, Steven M.; Viggiano, Thomas R.
Balmer, Dorene F.; Darden, Alix;
Chandran, Latha; D'Alessandro, Donna;
Gusic, Maryellen E
Academic Medicine, Published Ahead-of-Print, July 3, 2018:
Gottlieb, Amy S., MD;
Travis, Elizabeth L., PhD
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Harvard Business Review, May 25, 2018:
We like to think of ourselves as unbiased and objective in our employment decisions, but with two equal candidates, who are you going to promote? Someone who is described in their performance evaluations as analytical or someone who is described as compassionate? On the other end of the employment spectrum, if you're downsizing and have to fire someone and the two people in jeopardy are very similar, who are you going to fire? Someone perceived as arrogant or someone perceived as inept? Leadership attributions in performance evaluations are powerful.
New England Journal of Medicine, June 14, 2018:
As a new generation advances through medicine, the number of physicians who use social media and online networks as primary vehicles for communication is growing. Of course, the young physician workforce was brought up with online networks, but more and more mid- and late-career physicians in academic medicine and beyond are also communicating with one another through these platforms. Social media can both facilitate near-instantaneous communication across states and continents and help support trainees and physicians of all genders, races, cultures, specialties, and institutional affiliations.
Harvard Business Review, June 15, 2018:
Executive Summary. A boss who doesn't advocate for you can stunt your growth and block your career opportunities. And you might not even know that you have an unsupportive boss.
Linked In, June 15, 2018:
Most organizations overlook or don't fully grasp the impact of culture on performance. One of our primary objectives is to help leaders understand their culture for what it is and to be able to identify what they want it to be while working to fiercely protect what must never change.
Most consultants focus on identifying a slew of problems and then working to correct them. In using our process, leaders are able to emphasize positivity and focus on what is while setting expectations of what can be. When we return to our shared identity, values, and traditions, it helps us connect through what is shared and similar rather than disconnect through what is different and troublesome.
Inside Higher Ed, June 21, 2018:
Judith S. White gives advice to women administrators about how best to make a positive impact in often difficult circumstances.
The New York Times, June 21, 2018:
As unprecedented numbers of women enter the political arena, what does it mean to "dress to win"?
AAMC CFAS News, June 22, 2018:
Keck School of Medicine's first woman dean, Laura Mosqueda, MD, is working to rehabilitate the institution's image and steer it in a new direction, reported California Healthline. "I think [my appointment as dean] signals a sea of change at USC," said Dr. Mosqueda. "I think as a woman I'm probably more likely to bring a less competitive and more collaborative, more nurturing approach. I think we women are tough in different ways."
Harvard Business Review, June 25, 2018:
It's a concrete fact that women earn less than men do. The true gender pay-gap is not known with certainty, but, when comparing equally qualified people doing the same job, most estimates by labor economists put it at 10% - 20%. The crucial question remains its cause. One common explanation is that women are less likely to negotiate their salaries. We've seen this in both bestselling business memoirs like Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In and in previous studies like the research-based Women Don't Ask.
Inside Higher Ed, June 26, 2018:
Dysfunctional departments have identifiable patterns, and faculty members share some responsibility for dealing with them, argue Nicholas C. Burbules, C. K. Gunsalus and Robert A. Easter.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 26, 2018:
True diversity remains a struggle for many colleges. This special report looks at who actually sets a college's diversity agenda, and what makes that agenda flourish or flop.
Leading Effectively, June 26, 2018:
No matter where you lead, these 6 challenges will sound familiar. Here are 4 concrete things you can do to address these common issues.
Having better conversations will not only help you defuse conflicts at work - it will help you prevent them from flaring up in the first place.
Confronting difficult employees can be intimidating. But if you follow these tips, you can make life better for everyone involved, including yourself.
Inside Higher Ed, June 27, 2018:
Some faculty members do more than their fair share of department service, institutional housekeeping and student mentoring, writes KerryAnn O'Meara, who provides guidance for how to make such demands more equitable.
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 28, 2018:
A former dean turned professor begins the difficult challenge of renewing his scholarship.
Inside Higher Ed, June 28, 2018:
Even if up until now you haven't done it, even if you find it insufferable, even if you think you're awkward, even if you secretly believe that you're somehow above it, argues Stephen J. Aguilar, do it and open yourself up to the possibilities that follow.
Inside Higher Ed, July 2, 2018:
Rate My Professors ditches its chili pepper "hotness" rating after professors criticize the teacher-rating website for contributing to a poor academic climate for women.
Knowledge@Wharton, July 6, 2018:
Why Meaning Matters for Employee Engagement
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Calls for Application, Nomination, Etc.
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The Foundation for Advancement of International Medical Education and Research (FAIMER) Institute is now accepting applications to the 2019 class (19th cohort) of its international fellowship program in health professions education, leadership development, and global professional community building. Applicants are admitted on a rolling basis. This is a great opportunity for colleagues you may know in the US and around the world for global health professions education leadership development.
Visit FAIMER website at
faimer.org to learn more about this program that has over 1500 Fellows from the FAIMER global and regional Institutes in over 50 countries around the world.
AAMC CFAS News, June 29, 2018:
The AAMC is accepting applications for its Organizational Leadership in Academic Medicine for New Associate Deans and Department Chairs seminar, which will be held at the Atlanta Marriott Buckhead Hotel and Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia, from Oct. 4 to Oct. 7. The seminar is designed to ensure that department chairs and associate deans are equipped with the essential leadership and management skills to support their institutions' missions and goals. A number of CFAS reps have participated in the program in the past and also serve as faculty in the seminar.
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The Optimist Daily:
How women are changing the world.
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