The School of Medicine Office of Faculty Affairs and Professional Development accepts applications for the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® (ELAM) offered by the Drexel University College of Medicine annually in early fall.
Established in 1995, ELAM began as a prestigious national leadership fellowship for women which aimed to increase and sustain the number and impact of women in leadership positions in the health sciences. As of 2025, the program has more than 1,600 alumni (ELUMs) in high-level leadership positions (provosts, deans, chief officers, chairs, etc.) at 300 health institutions around the country.
To leverage the success of the ELAM program for the benefit of everyone, the ELAM program began accepting all qualified individuals in the spring of 2025, regardless of gender.
Please note, faculty titles are accurate as of the date of participation in the program.
Previous Graduates:
Sandra Wong, MD, MS
Dean, Emory University School of Medicine
Shari Barkin, MD MSHS
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics
Pediatrician-in-Chief
Michelle Lall, MD, MHS
Director, Well-being, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; Senior Medical Education Fellowship Director; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine
Colleen S. Kraft, MD, MSc
Associate Chief Medical Officer, Emory University Hospital
Professor, Dept of Pathology/Laboratory Medicine
Medicine/Division of Infectious Diseases
Reshma Jagsi, MD, DPhil
Professor and Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology
Anne-Marie McKenzie Brown, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Jada Bussey-Jones, MD, FACP
Professor and Vice Chair Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Medicine
Assistant Dean, Professional Development, Emory at Grady
Chief, Grady Section General Medicine and Geriatrics
Denise Jamieson, MD, MPH
James Robert McCord Professor & Chair, Department of Gynecology & Obstetrics
H. Hughes Evans, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
Monica Farley, MD
Jonas A. Shulman Professor in Infectious Diseases
Division Director, Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine
Amy Chen, MD, MPH, FACS
Willard and Lillian Hackerman Professor of Otolaryngology, Head, and Neck Surgery
Director, Endocrine Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology
Erica Brownfield, MD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean for Education
Penny Castellano, MD
Associate Professor of Gynecology and Obstetrics
Chief Medical Officer for Clinical Operations, The Emory Clinic
Chief Quality Officer, The Emory Clinic
Kathy Griendling, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Research and Faculty Development Department of Medicine
Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Sheryl Heron, MD MPH
Professor
Department of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Dean for Medical Education and Student Affairs
Nadine Kaslow, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair for Faculty Development
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Lian Li, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair
Department of Pharmacology
Carolyn Meltzer, MD
W. P. Timmie Professor and Chair
Department of Radiology
Associate Dean for Research