ENDORSEMENTS

ELAM is endorsed by:

• Association of Academic Health Centers
• Association of American Medical Colleges
• Association of Schools of Public Health
• American Council on Education
• American Dental Education Association

• American Medical Women’s Association

ELAM Support

ELAM is supported by program fees, grants, gifts and in-kind contributions from individual donors, foundations and corporations.

ELAM would like to acknowledge the following major contributors for their support in helping to establish the program:

• The Jessie Ball duPont Fund
• The Connelly Foundation
• Mrs. Hedwig Pfaltz van Ameringen and her daughter, Patricia Kind, for establishing a program endowment in perpetuity.

The following people and institutions have provided generous support or in-kind contributions to ELAM:

• Carol A. Aschenbrener, M.D. (ELAM Alliance)
• David J. Bachrach, MBA (ELAM Alliance) and Linda Bachrach
• D. Walter Cohen, D.D.S.
• Colgate-Palmolive Company
• Suanne M. Daves, M.D.
• ELAM Alliance
• Nancy E. Gary, M.D., MACP
• Nancy Sisson Hardt, M.D.
• Korn/Ferry International
• Suzanne E. Landis, M.D.
• Kristine M. Lohr, M.D.
• Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation
• Medical College of Pennsylvania (MCP)/National Board for Women in Medicine
• Merck & Co.
• Page S. Morahan, Ph.D. (ELAM Alliance)
• Pfizer, Inc.
• PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
• Cathie T. Siders, Ph.D. (ELAM Alliance)
• Society for Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (SELAM International)
• University of Florida College of Medicine
• University of Michigan Medical School, School of Dentistry and Office of the Provost
• University of Utah School of Medicine
• University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• Woman’s Medical College/MCP Alumnae/i Association’s Teaching and Research Fund
• Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals

In 2001, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded a five-year grant to ELAM in support of an in-depth analysis of the program’s impact and formulation of a theory about effective leadership development of women. Also supporting this long-term study are the following:

• The Jessie Ball duPont Fund
• Drexel University College of Medicine
• George Washington University
• Mayo College of Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• The University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tenn.
• Wright State University School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio

ELAM Honors

• 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund, American Dental Association)
• Leadership Development Award (Women in Medicine, Association of American Medical Colleges)
• Leadership Award (Office of Women in Higher Education Network, American Council on Education)
• National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health, as part of the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
• National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine, as part of the Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)

ELAM is a core program of the Institute for Women's Health and Leadership at Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa. The Institute continues the legacy of advancing women in medicine that began in 1850 with the founding of the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, the nation's first women's medical school and a predecessor of today's Drexel University College of Medicine.