The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine^® program is now accepting applications for its 2015-2016 class through an online application process. Applications are due January 15, 2015.  ELAM^® a core unit of the Center for Executive Leadership in Academics, housed in Drexel University College of Medicine’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership, is dedicated to preparing senior women faculty, at the associate professor or higher level, who want to assume higher levels of responsibility within their institution to advance to positions of leadership and in turn strengthen her institution’s capacity for innovation.

ELAM’s curriculum advances knowledge and skills in strategic finance, personal and professional leadership effectiveness, community-building, and academic organizational dynamics by applying readings and classroom instruction to leadership work with senior mentors in each of the sponsoring organizations. Upon graduation, each ELAM fellow becomes part of an international network of alumnae who continue to support each other and their organizations.

ELAM current participants and alumnae from CEPH-accredited schools and programs of public health include:

• Dr. Donna Arnett, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2006-2007)
• Dr. Kathy Baumgartner, University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences (ELAM class of 2008-2009)
• Dr. Deborah Bowen, Boston University School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2009-2010)
• Dr. Beth Burnside, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (ELAM class of 2010-2011)
• Dr. Lorraine Conroy, University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2013-2014)
• Dr. Linda Cottler, University of Florida College of Public Health and Health Professions (ELAM class of 2006-2007)
• Dr. Karen Emmons, Harvard School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2007-2008)
• Dr. Linda Fried, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health (ELAM class of 1996-1997)
• Dr. Mary Gallant, University at Albany SUNY School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2014-2015)
• Dr. Marla Gold, Drexel University School of Public Health (ELAM class of 1998-1999)
• Dr. Pat Kokotailo, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (ELAM class of 1998-1999)
• Dr. Shannon Marquez, Drexel University School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2010-2011)
• Dr. Susan Mayne, Yale University School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2008-2009)
• Dr. Anne Newman, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2011-2012)
• Dr. Corinne Peek-Asa, The University of Iowa College of Public Health (ELAM class of 2011-2012)
• Dr. Melinda Pettigrew, Yale University School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2012-2013)
• Dr. Sandra Quinn, University of Maryland School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2006-2007)
• Dr. Maureen Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health (ELAM class of 2013-2014)
• Dr. Lisa Sullivan, Boston University School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2007-2008)
• Dr. Pamela Teaster, University of Kentucky College of Public Health (ELAM class of 2009-2010)
• Dr. Marsha Wills-Karp, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (ELAM class of 2007-2008)
• Dr. Jennifer Wisdom, Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (ELAM class of 2014-2015)

For more information, visit the ELAM application web site at www.drexelmed.edu/elam.