- Helen Keller

Faculty positions, Breast Cancer, GI Oncology, and Lung Cancer, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at Cedar-Sinai are Ilana Cass and Sarah Kilpatrick.

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Abington Memorial Hospital, Philadelphia. Submitted by executive search firm, Witt/Kieffer.

Chair, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The University of New Mexico School of Medicine. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the university are Bronwyn Wilson, Leslie Morrison, Valerie Romero-Leggott, Deborah Helitzer, Melvina McCabe, Martha McGrew, Arti Prasad, Anne Simpson, Carolyn Voss (SOM).

Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at the affiliated Harvard University are Barbara Kahn, Deborah Levine, Susan Redline, and Jeanine Wiener-Kronish (Harvard Medical School); Karen Emmons (SOPH).

Assistant Provost for Interprofessional Initiatives, Medical University of South Carolina. Submitted by the institution. ELUMs at MUSC are Kathleen Brady, Deborah Deas, Susan Harvey, Donna Johnson, Etta Pisano (Dean), Darlene Shaw, Melanie Thomas, Cindy Wright, Linda Austin, Brenda Hoffman, Flo Hutchison, Carolyn Reed (COM); Betsy Pilcher (CODM).

Dean, New York Medical College School of Medicine. Submitted by executive search firm, Posner Advertising.

Chief Medical Officer, Froedtert and The Medical College Community Physicians (Medical College of Wisconsin). Submitted by executive search firm Witt/Kieffer. ELUMs at the college are Pat Donohoue, Beth Drolet, Judy Kersten, Karen Marcdante, Mary Otterson, Julie Panepinto, Ann Rosenthal, Paula Termuhlen, Earnestine Willis (MCW).

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Karen Emmons, Ph.D., (ELAM '08) has accepted a position as vice president for research and director of the Kaiser Foundation Research Institute at Kaiser Permanente's national headquarters in Oakland, C.A.

Cheryl Lee, M.D. (ELAM '13), the Robert and Eva Moyad Professor of Urology at the University of Michigan Medical School, has been appointed as Director of Continuous Professional Development.

CBS Detroit, September 29, 2013:

WSU Graduate School, Dean Get $1.8M From NIH To Recruit More Researchers

Wayne State University announced that the Graduate School was one of 10 institutions selected by the National Institutes of Health to lead a five-year, $18.5 million initiative aimed at strengthening the research workforce in the United States, where there is a shortage of non-academic research scientists. [Ambika Mathur, Ph.D., (ELAM '14) is the Interim Dean of the Graduate School.]

Lesley Regan, M.B.B.S., M.D. (ELAM '11), Head, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology for Imperial College London, Faculty of Medicine, was interviewed for an article in BMJ Careers, Helping Women Help Themselves.

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 ELAM@DrexelMed.edu.

AAMC CFAS-News, September 29, 2013:

An important perspective article in the November issue of Academic Medicine is now available on-line. Titled, "Making Equity a Value in Value-Based Health Care," the article is by Drs. Philip Alberti, Ann Bonham, and Darrell Kirch, all from AAMC. In the article, the authors "envision how disparities-related provisions in the Affordable Care Act and other recent legislation could be linked with new value-based health care requirements and payment models to create incentives for narrowing health care disparities and move the nation toward equity. Specifically, the authors explore how recent legislative actions regarding payment reform, health information technology, community health needs assessments, and expanding health equity research could be woven together to build an evidence base for solutions to health care inequities. Although policy interventions at the clinical and payer levels alone will not eliminate disparities, given the significant role the social determinants of health play in the etiology and maintenance of inequity, such policies can allow the health care system to better identify and leverage community assets; provide high-quality, more equitable care; and demonstrate that equity is a value in health."
 

AAMC CFAS-News, October 10, 2013:

AAMC's Chief Health Care Officer, Joanne Conroy, MD, (ELAM '98) authored a blog entry on the October 1 opening of the health insurance exchanges created by the passage of the Affordable Care Act. She discussed resources available to educate people about the program.  More importantly, she wrote, "It is easy to forget in the tremendous noise surrounding [ACA implementation] that creating access to affordable care for people without health insurance was what the ACA was all about. Denying those people even the most basic coverage sends the message that, at some level, they are expendable: Do we really believe that?"  She reminded us that there are millions of people who are uninsured and that they include colleagues, friends, and relatives "and they deserve basic health insurance coverage... Do not send the message that these people don't matter."  She concluded by providing ideas for what each of us can do to help people become aware of the options they have under the ACA and the health care exchanges.

Academic Medicine, 88(10), October 2013:

An Ethical Argument for Preserving Medical Trainee Authorship

Lypson, Monica L.; Philibert, Ingrid

The Journal of the American Medical Association, October 2, 2013, Vol 310, No. 13:

Mortality Reporting and Pay-for-Performance Programs  

Jamieson M. Bourque, MD, Ashley R. Hurst, JD, Mary Faith Marshall, PhD.

Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Health Outcomes During the Intervention and Extended Poststopping Phases of the Women's Health Initiative Randomized Trials    

JoAnn E. Manson, MD, Rowan T. Chlebowski, MD, Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD, Lynda H. Powell, PhD, et al. [Note that Sally Shumaker, Ph.D. also is involved in the Women's Health Initiative and cited in the article.]

Sponsorship: A Path to the Academic Medicine C-suite for Women Faculty?

Travis, Elizabeth L. PhD; Doty, Leilani PhD; Helitzer, Deborah L. ScD

Changing the Culture of Academic Medicine to Eliminate the Gender Leadership Gap: 50/50 by 2020

Valantine, Hannah MD; Sandborg, Christy I. MD

Journal of Dental Education, 1 October 2013; Vol. 77, No. 10:

Geriatrics Education in U.S. Dental Schools: Where Do We Stand, and What Improvements Should Be Made?

Naomi Levy, Ruth S. Goldblatt, and Susan Reisine

Journal of Women's Health. October 2013, 22(10):

Uterine Fibroid: The Burden Borne by African American Women

Gloria Richard-Davis

Wing of Zock, September 30, 2013:

Changing the Diversity Environment Requires a New Vocabulary

By Valerie Romero-Leggott, MD

The need for change haunts every diversity professional, especially in health care, where we are learning that health outcomes can depend on physicians' intentional decision-making as well as on unconscious biases. Yet the pace of attitudinal change seems to be crawling even as technological change barrels forward. Burnout is high among diversity professionals; a sense of isolation and voicelessness can overwhelm us, especially in the face of forces that don't see the need for change.

 
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