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    November 15, 2012
 
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UPCOMING EVENTS 

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ELAM Texas and Regional Alumnae Event
January 10 - 11, 2013
The Mokara Hotel and Spa

San Antonio, Texas
 

All ELUMs are invited to join us in San Antonio, Texas for a two-day event featuring a workshop led by Diane Magrane, and a networking dinner to reconnect with your ELUM colleagues and to meet the 2012-2013 class of fellows.

The event will also consist of an Institutional Action Project (IAP) Peer Mentoring session, where you will have the opportunity to use your own areas of expertise to give guidance to a group of current fellows working on their IAPs.

 

The deadline to register is
December 3!

 

 

Visit our website for more information and to
register today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 ELAM News to Know         

 

Reporting from the AAMC 

 

Diane Magrane, Page Morahan, Olivia Lee and Rosalyn Richman greeted and mixed with a record number of ELUMs in San Francisco at the 2012 AAMC Annual Meeting.

 

The 8th annual ELAM@AAMC Tea brought together ELUMs who came from every class, going back to the inaugural 1995-96 class, to the present with members of the current 2012-2013 class of Fellows. Nearly 100 gathered for conversation and connection. This year's tea sponsor, Stanford University School of Medicine, was represented by incoming Dean Lloyd Minor, along with several Stanford ELUMs and Sabine Girod of the current class. Sherry Wren (ELAM '08) presented a slideshow that highlighted the Stanford ELUMs and outgoing Dean Philip Pizzo.

  

ELAM Tea 

 

At the tea, Diane talked about the upcoming winter session for Fellows and the ELAM Texas Regional Alumnae Event (see details at left), both in San Antonio in January, and the 2013-2014 application cycle for ELAM and ELATE programs. Page thanked the ELUMs who participated in focus sessions for our NIH grant. Olivia announced and welcomed the new ELAM Alumnae Advisory Group, who will work with her to plan the 2014 ELUM program in San Antonio. Roz thanked Stanford for sponsoring the Tea and underscored the importance of ELAM's Sustaining Memberships for institutions and ELUMs' annual campaign contributions that enable ELAM to provide enhanced community building activities, events, and career advancement services.

 

ELAM's Exhibit Hall Booth drew ELUMs and curious potential candidates alike. This year's poster featured a timeline of activities for the International Center for Executive Leadership in Academics (ICELA), umbrella to ELAM and ELATE programs. Just across from the ELAM booth, Darshana Shah represented Marshall University's medical school.

  

ELAM Booth 

 

Also in the exhibit hall, Karen Marcdante (ELAM '98) was among the "great authors" at Elsevier's booth, as the lead author of Nelson's Essentials of Pediatrics, 6th edition.  

 

Not surprisingly, ELUMs used the AAMC meeting to have their own reunions. One group, from ELAM '04, held a dinner, as it has every year since graduation. They shared news: 
 
 

Elisabeth Kunkel reports that she is leading a task for for Thomas Jefferson University Hospital on whether patients are satisfied with their physicians.

Cathy Lazarus is back in New Orleans working at Tulane, Louisiana State University and the VA overseeing education, training, and planning for the new VA hospital, and facilitating faculty recruitment. She is on the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Susan LeDoux is now Associate Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs at University of South Alabama College of Medicine.

Jan Lindemann is facilitating curriculum reform University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicineand was recently appointed to the Liaison Committee on Medical Education.
ELUMs in San Fran
Seated L2R: Carol Newlon, Elisabeth Kunkel, Susan LeDoux
Standing L2R: Karen Gale, Jan Lindemann, Cathy Lazarus, Vivian Lewis

  

 

 

AAMC's 2013 meeting will take place in Philadelphia, ELAM's (and ELATE's and ICELA's home "turf'). We look forward to greeting even more ELUMs and Fellows next year!

 

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Due to the holiday, there will be no Edge next week.

 

 

 

 

 

Quote of the Day

Being right is interesting but it's often irrelevant.

       - Kathleen Reardon

 


Positions  

  

Chief, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at Stanford are Juli Barr, Myriam Curet, Cheryl Gore-Felton, Paula Hillard, Marlene Rabinovitch, Hannah Valantine, and Sherry Wren (SOM).

 

Chair, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. An ELUM at the university is Rachel Brown.

 

Chair, Department of Radiology, University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. See above for an ELUM at the university.

 

Director, Health System Innovation and Research Program, University of Utah. Submitted by the university. ELUMs at Utah are Mary Beckerle, Carrie Byington, Catherine deVries, Kathleen Digre, Harriet Hopf, Vicki Judd, Joyce Mitchell, Mary Murray, and Monica Vetter (SOM). 

 

Please send position announcements to [email protected].   

 

 

ELUM News 

 

AAMC CAS-Chairs, November 10, 2012:

The AAMC has announced its new board of directors. The board's term will run until November 2013. Among other appointments, Kathleen G. Nelson, M.D. (ELAM '97), clinical professor of pediatrics, University of Southern California and Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and Rosemarie L. Fisher, M.D. (ELAM '99), professor of medicine, director, and associate dean of graduate medical education, Yale University School of Medicine, the chair and chair-elect, respectively, of the Council of Academic Societies, continue to serve on the Board.

  

Melanie T. Cushion, Ph.D. (ELAM 2011) is the Program Director for the newly awarded University of Cincinnati's NSF ADVANCE Award, "Leadership, Empowerment and Advancement of Women STEM Faculty (LEAF). This 5 year award is intended to increase the participation and advancement of women and women of color in STEM disciplines with the goal of developing a more supportive and diverse academic culture. Bottom up and top-down strategies combined with an accountability and advocacy council are designed to create a pipeline for women scientists in the STEM disciplines. 

 

Marjorie Jenkins, M.D. (ELAM 2010), Associate Dean for Women in Health and Science and Mrs. Avery "Janie" Rush Endowed Chair of Excellence in WH and Oncology, Texas Tech University; Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health was hosted at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine by Laura Wexler, M.D. (ELAM 2000) and Mercedes Falciglia, M.D. (ELAM 2013) as the 2012 Johnson McGuire Scholar. Dr. Jenkins delivered the Medical Grand Rounds address, " Considering Sex and Gender in Health Care and Health Care Research: Promises Possibilities and Pitfalls".  A reception was held for Dr. Jenkins co-hosted by the Dean of the College of Medicine, Thomas Boat, M.D., and Gregory Rouan, M.D., Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. 

 

Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. (ELAM '04), Emory University professor and chief psychologist of Atlanta's Grady Health System, has been elected 2014 president of the American Psychological Association (APA). She will serve as APA's president-elect in 2013 and president in 2014. APA is the world's largest association of psychologists, with more than 137,000 researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants and students as its members.

 

ASPH Friday Letter #1751, November 9, 2012:
 
Maryland Examines Researchers Effect on Minority Study Participant Recruitment
Efforts to improve the recruitment of racial and ethnic minorities into biomedical and public health research have generally focused on overcoming barriers or identifying motivators to participate. A new study from the University of Maryland School of Public Health's Center for Health Equity (M-CHE) instead examines how the researchers themselves may impact the success of their recruitment efforts. In an effort to address this gap in the literature, Dr. Sandra Quinn (ELAM '07) M-CHE senior associate director and associate dean for public health initiatives, and study team conducted a nationwide online survey to investigate how researchers' attributes relate to their choice of recruitment strategies. 

 

 

ELUM Articles 
 

Journal of Women's Health, Vol. 21, No. 11, November 2012:

Best Practices and Pearls in Interdisciplinary Mentoring from Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Directors

Jeanne-Marie Guise, Joan D. Nagel, and Judith G. Regensteiner, and the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Directors

 

Urogenital Symptoms and Pain History as Precursors of Vulvodynia: A Longitudinal Study

Barbara D. Reed, Carolyn M. Payne, Sioban D. Harlow, Laurie J. Legocki, Hope K. Haefner, and Ananda Sen

 

Journal of Dental Education, Vol. 76, No. 11, November 2012:

Cone Beam Computed Tomography in Dentistry: What Dental Educators and Learners Should Know
Shawn Adibi, Wenjian Zhang, Tom Servos, and Paula N. O'Neill

 

Joanne Conroy, M.D. (ELAM '98), AAMC Chief Health Care Officer, authored an essay, "The Future of Health Care in Obama's Second Term," on the Wing of Zock web site. She wrote, "Ignoring the campaign rhetoric, there is still much more work to be done in order to reshape our health care system; the effect on academic medical centers and teaching hospitals will be significant." Dr. Conroy also wrote that while the budget and political situation in D.C. may be chaotic, there are opportunities. 

 

 

 

Articles of Note 
 

Center for Creative Leadership Leading Effectively e-Newsletter, November 2012:

Use Network Knowledge to Boost Success
 
Here's a new twist on the saying "It's not what you know, it's who you know."

 

Soldiers, Diplomats 'Hard-wire' Collaboration
 
Soldiers and diplomats are typically viewed as two different species. Learn how they crossed deep-rooted boundaries to collaborate in Iraq.

 

Developing Leaders: Today's Methods vs. Tomorrow's Problems
 
The greatest challenge ahead is not a leadership challenge. It's a development challenge, argues CCL's Nick Petrie.

 

HR Pipeline: Connecting Strategy & Leadership Development
 
Even as the global economy was in turmoil, Barclaycard looked to fuse strategy and leadership development.

 

Journal of Dental Education, Vol. 76, No. 11, November 2012:
 
The Role of Women in Dental Education: Monitoring the Pipeline to Leadership

Michael J. Reed, Ann Marie Corry, and Ying W. Liu

 

Journal of Women's Health, Vol. 21, No. 11, November 2012:

Academic Women Faculty: Are They Finding the Mentoring They Need?

Emily A. Blood, Nicole J. Ullrich, Dina R. Hirshfeld-Becker, Ellen W. Seely, Maureen T. Connelly, Carol A. Warfield, and S. Jean Eman

 

The Atlantic, November 6, 2012:

The Word That Gets Women Negotiating Their Salaries: 'Negotiate'

Female job applicants are more likely to ask for more money when employers explicitly given them the option, a new paper finds.

 

Knowledge@Wharton, November 7, 2012:

High-powered Women and Supportive Spouses: Who's in Charge, and of What?
At a time when issues like gender inequality in the boardroom and the dearth of women in corporate America continue to make headlines, it is worth asking: How important is the role of a helpful partner in the life of a high-powered female executive? One leadership expert says that most successful women "tell me they could not have gotten to where they are without their incredibly supportive husband.... At least the ones who are still married say this."

 

FastCompany.com, November 8, 2012:

Leading Through the Power of Persuasion

Sweeping people up into an idea is a wonderful experience, and the best leaders use six tools to do that effectively. Charlotte Beers, former CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, reveals compelling ways to get people on board and enthused about your ideas--even if the odds are stacked against you.

 

FastCompany.com, November 12, 2012:

Six Steps to Troubleshooting Your Life

Troubleshooting is an effective way to fix technical problems--but more importantly, you can apply the same techniques to your career and colleagues as well.

 

FastCompany.com, November 13, 2012:
 
The Employee-Motivation Checklist

Of course you want employees who are happy, motivated, and productive--who doesn't? Following each of these simple steps will get you where you want to be.

 

FastCompany.com, November 14, 2012:
 
The One Career Mistake That'll Set You Back $500,000

A new study finds that men and women aren't all that different when it comes to being willing to ask for better compensation. And yet, over the course of their careers, women stand to lose as much as half a million dollars just by failing to negotiate their first job's starting salary. Here's how to make up lost ground.

 

Inside Higher Education, November 14, 2012:

Breaking the Cycle

To keep perfectionism in check, you need to understand your habits and attitudes, writes Kerry Ann Rockquemore. [Note: This is the second installment of a new series on academic perfectionism that started - and was included in last week's Edge - with an item on the costs of perfectionism.]

 

 

 

 

The Last Word

 

The New York Times Sunday Review, November 9, 2012:

The Science and Art of Listening

HERE'S a trick question. What do you hear right now? If your home is like mine, you hear the humming sound of a printer, the low throbbing of traffic from the nearby highway and the clatter of plastic followed by the muffled impact of paws landing on linoleum - meaning that the cat has once again tried to open the catnip container atop the fridge and succeeded only in knocking it to the kitchen floor. The slight trick in the question is that, by asking you what you were hearing, I prompted your brain to take control of the sensory experience - and made you listen rather than just hear. That, in effect, is what happens when an event jumps out of the background enough to be perceived consciously rather than just being part of your auditory surroundings. The difference between the sense of hearing and the skill of listening is attention.

 

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