ELAM EDGE: YOUR BIWEEKLY NEWSLETTER FOR EVERYTHING ELAM | | 2025 AAMC Learn Serve Lead Highlights | | Another fantastic Learn Serve Lead is in the books! The ELAM team joined ELUMs, fellows, partners, supporters, and prospective fellows in San Antonio for three days of programming, networking, and connection. From a lively and packed ELAM reception to having our ELUMs and fellows sign-in at our booth and grab some swag, it was wonderful to see familiar faces while meeting new ones. | | |
Transitioning to a New Role:
Navigating From One Chapter to the Next
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Career transitions are an inevitable part of academic pediatrics, yet few faculty members receive formal preparation for these changes. This webinar will explore strategies to navigate professional transitions effectively, offering insights tailored to the unique challenges faced by academic pediatricians. ELUMs Archana Chatterjee, MD, PhD (ELAM ‘08), and Nancy Spector, MD (ELAM ‘10), are featured speakers for this discussion.
Join the APS Career Support Committee on Friday, November 7, 2025, 3-4:15 p.m. CT for a timely and practical conversation. Register Here.
| | Stanford Medicine Health Futurists | | |
The Health Futurists programs are designed for healthcare executives and professionals who are passionate about shaping the future of medicine. We bring together the brightest minds in science and medicine to explore cutting-edge technologies, groundbreaking research, and visionary leadership with real impact in the world.
Learn from the researchers and innovators that are creating the breakthroughs that will be used at the bedside tomorrow.
The Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) for mid-career professionals launches April 2026.
The Advanced Leadership Program (ALP) for C-suite and senior executives returns in fall 2026.
Grace Lee, MD, MPH (ELH ‘25), is helping to lead the Emerging Leaders Program (ELP). Please share this learning opportunity with others.
Learn more.
| | Mid-Career Leadership Accelerator Program | | |
The Mid-Career Leadership Accelerator Program, for recently promoted associate professors, is a six-month experience designed to cultivate leadership excellence in academic medicine. Amanda Termuhlen, MD (ELAM '10), is the program director.
This transformative program is tailored to support faculty navigating the pivotal transition into mid-career leadership roles. Participants will engage in six interactive webinars and six group coaching sessions. Each webinar is focused on essential leadership competencies such as developing an effective network, career advancement, developing and supporting others, conflict management, working in teams, and financial literacy. The webinars are presented by renowned coaches and experts in academic medicine to help faculty navigate mid-career dynamics. In addition to the webinars, the group coaching experience fosters peer connection, accountability and promotes deeper learning.
Learn more.
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Eva Aagaard, MD (ELAM ‘15), has been named WashU Medicine’s vice dean for education and will continue her university role as vice chancellor for medical education, effective November 1, 2025.
Irina Burd, MD, PhD (ELAM ‘24), was named president of the Society for Reproductive Investigation.
CORRECTION: April O. Buchanan, MD, FAAP (ELAM ‘23), has been named senior associate dean for Medical Education at Emory University School of Medicine, effective January 1, 2026. The October 23, 2025 issue of the Edge listed the incorrect name and the ELAM team apologizes for this oversight.
Rebecca Dutch, PhD (ELAM ‘21), and Karen Wilson, MD, MPH (ELAM ‘18), were featured in a AAMCtoday video titled “What Capitol Hill Needs to Hear About Medical Research,” where they talk about the impact NIH-funded research has on the health and well-being of our nation.
Paula Ferrada, MD (ELAM ‘20), was among other C-suite executives from hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers and universities across the U.S. who shared their outlook on the future of hospital consolidation in a Becker’s article titled “Top health system leaders’ outlook for the next era of consolidation.”
Catriona Harrop, MD (ELH ‘26), was promoted to clinical professor of Medicine at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.
Deb Houry, MD, MPH (ELAM ‘14), is featured in a BBC segment titled “How science got here, and where next,” where she discusses some of the sources and motivations that perhaps belie the current state of scientific affairs.
Hilit Mechaber, MD (ELAM ‘25), was invited to talk about leadership strategies with new chairs and associate deans at the AAMC Organizational Leadership in Academic Medicine annual conference.
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A small group of NYC ELUMs gathered at the home of Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR (ELAM ‘24).
Pictured L to R: Larissa Rodriguez, MD (ELAM ‘25), Angela Mills, MD (ELAM ‘19), Sarah Millar, PhD (ELAM ‘14), Lyndsey Douglas, MD, MS (ELH ‘24), Susan Rosenthal, PhD (ELAM '06), Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, FACR (ELAM ‘24), and Gopi Patel, MD, MS (ELH '25).
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ELUM and Fellow News/Changes
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The New England Journal of Medicine, October 25, 2025:
Listening and Responding to Community Voices — The Community Wellness HUB
Loretta Sweet Jemmott, Ph.D., R.N., Helen L. Teng, Ph.D., R.N., Annette Gadegbeku, M.D., and Monica J. Harmon, M.S.N., M.P.H., R.N.
JAMA Network, October 29, 2025:
Sex-Specific Risks of Occupational Distress in Physicians Compared With the General Population
Tait D. Shanafelt, MD; Liselotte N. Dyrbye, MD, MHPE; Christine Sinsky, MD; Michael Tutty, PhD; Hanhan Wang, MPS; Lindsey E. Carlasare, MBA; Colin P. West, MD, PhD; Mickey Trockel, MD, PhD
The New England Journal of Medicine, November 1, 2025:
Medicaid Cuts and U.S. Children’s Health — Fixing a Broken System
Authors: Emma E. McGinty, Ph.D., Asaf Bitton, M.D., M.P.H., and Sallie R. Permar, M.D., Ph.D.
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| | CALLS FOR APPLICATION, NOMINATION, ETC. | | |
Nominations Now Open for the
2026 Laura Lynch ELAM/ELH Community Impact Award
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The 2026 Laura Lynch ELAM/ELH Community Impact Award recognizes an individual or individuals who have made a significant and positive impact on the ELAM/ELH community. Recipients demonstrate professionalism, commitment, and unwavering dedication to supporting fellows, ELUMs, faculty, staff, and other community members. They inspire others to use their talents and energy to strengthen the ELAM/ELH network and foster the continued growth and success of ELUMs in their leadership journeys.
Nomination deadline: Friday, January 9, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. ET
Know someone who might be a great candidate? Submit your nomination on the ELAM awards website.
Have questions? Email Janine Barber at jkb48@drexel.edu.
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Apply to Become a Director
American Board of Emergency Medicine
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ABEM encourages applications from across the Emergency Medicine community. The application window is open now until November 25, 2025.
The ABEM Board of Directors (BOD) is a working Board. Directors can expect to spend 50 days or more per year participating in ABEM travel, activities, and other commitments. Some activities include but are not limited to attending two in-person BOD and committee meetings of up to one week each in duration, virtual committee meetings, serving as an item writer, and participating as an oral examiner.
Newly elected Directors will be expected to attend the New Director Orientation, to be held at the ABEM office in East Lansing, Michigan, from April 27 to 29, 2026.
Submit an application.
For general inquiries on this process, contact governance@abem.org.
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