The Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and Executive Leadership in Health Care (ELH) fall session took place in Philadelphia from September 9-15 this year and was an opportunity for women in the medical, dental, and public health schools as well as academic medicine to gain leadership training with extensive coaching, networking and mentoring. This program is a yearlong learning experience where teams will meet for sessions three times a year with independent projects in between before a graduation in May 2024. 
ELAM was designed for specifically senior women faculty at the associate or full professor level and ELH was designed for rising women at the equivalent of the associate professor level. They both are meant to for women who aspire to lead at the executive level in the next five years and help enable these women to bring out their full potential in their work.
Three professors from Pitt this year went to represent: Tiffany L. Gary-Webb, PhD, MHS, Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Associate Director of Center for Health Equity and professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Jessica S. Merlin, MD, PhD, MBA, Associate Program Director for Research, Internal Medicine Residency and Professor of Medicine with Tenure in the Department of General Internal Medicine and the Department of Pediatrics’ own Kristin Ray, MD, MS, FAAP, Director, General Academic Pediatrics Research Fellowship, Director of Health Systems Improvement, UPMC Children’s Community Pediatrics and associate professor of Pediatrics.
“We were able to connect during the meeting and look forward to working on institutional action projects with [the university] this year. It was very inspiring to learn with 140 women leaders from across the country,” said Gary-Webb.
Now that the first session has been completed, the women will work on individual and independent projects within their department to bring back for the second session in January of next year.
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