As an ELAM alumna, I know how tremendously valuable this program is in elevating the most competent and talented women in our field to even greater heights. Dr. Malcolm, Dr. Miller and Dr. Finn join a distinctive group of their peers as ELAM graduates.
Joanne M. Conroy, MDThree leaders within Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth graduated from the Drexel University College of Medicine’s 2025 class of its Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) and Executive Leadership in Healthcare (ELH) programs, both are under the ELAM umbrella of distinguished national leadership programming for senior-level faculty and health system leaders.
This year’s Dartmouth Health ELAM graduate is Anna N. Miller, MD, orthopaedics department chair and professor of surgery at Geisel. The graduates of the ELH program are Teresa D. Malcolm, MD, MBA, FACOG, vice president of impact and belonging, and Christine T. Finn, MD, psychiatry department medical director at Dartmouth Health, psychiatry education vice chair and associate professor of psychiatry at Geisel.
The new graduates join fellow Dartmouth Health/Geisel ELAM alumnae Joanne M. Conroy, MD, Dartmouth Health CEO and president; Amber E. Barnato, MD, MS, MPH, a palliative medicine physician; Ilana Cass, MD, obstetrics and gynecology department chair; Jocelyn D. Chertoff, MD, MS, a diagnostic radiologist and former radiology department chair; Sonia N. Chimienti, MD, infectious disease and international health physician and dean of educational affairs at Geisel; Kathleen J. Clem, MD, FACEP, an emergency medicine physician; and Barbara C. Jobst, MD, neurology and neurocritical care department chair.
“As an ELAM alumna, I know how tremendously valuable this program is in elevating the most competent and talented women in our field to even greater heights,” Conroy said. “Dr. Malcolm, Dr. Miller and Dr. Finn join a distinctive group of their peers as ELAM graduates. I commend them for taking on this opportunity in addition to their normal job responsibilities in order to grow professionally, and for representing Dartmouth Health and Geisel so well in their cohort.”
Carrie H. Colla, PhD, a health economist and Susan J. and Richard M. Levy Distinguished Professor at Geisel, is part the ELAM class of 2026, which is currently underway.
“We’re looking forward to creating many more opportunities for our alumni and supporters to gather so that we can continue to sustain each other through our leadership journeys,” said Erika T. Brown, PhD, dean of faculty affairs and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at Geisel, also an ELAM alum, and currently serves as the associate director of ELAM.
ELAM is a year-long, part-time fellowship for faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry, public health and pharmacy. The program is dedicated to developing the professional and personal skills required to lead and manage in today's complex healthcare environment. More than 1,600 ELAM alumni hold leadership positions in institutions around the world. The ELH track of ELAM builds upon the ELAM fellowship model to include the concepts, tools and skills that will enable leaders to bring their full potential to health care organizations.
About Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health, New Hampshire’s only academic health system and the state’s largest private employer, serves patients across northern New England. Dartmouth Health provides access to more than 2,000 providers in almost every area of medicine, delivering care at its flagship hospital, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center (DHMC) in Lebanon, NH, as well as across its wide network of hospitals, clinics and care facilities. DHMC is consistently named the #1 hospital in New Hampshire by U.S. News & World Report, and is recognized for high performance in numerous clinical specialties and procedures. Dartmouth Health includes Dartmouth Cancer Center, one of only 57 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers in the nation, and the only such center in northern New England; Dartmouth Health Children’s, which includes the state’s only children’s hospital and multiple locations around the region; member hospitals in Lebanon, Keene, Claremont and New London, NH, and Windsor and Bennington, VT; Visiting Nurse and Hospice for Vermont and New Hampshire; and more than 24 clinics that provide ambulatory and specialty services across New Hampshire and Vermont. Through its historical partnership with Dartmouth and the Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth Health trains nearly 400 medical residents and fellows annually, and performs cutting-edge research and clinical trials recognized across the globe with Geisel and the White River Junction VA Medical Center in White River Junction, VT. Dartmouth Health and its more than 13,000 employees are deeply committed to serving the healthcare needs of everyone in our communities, and to providing each of our patients with exceptional, personal care.
About the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, founded in 1797, strives to improve the lives of the communities we serve through excellence in learning, discovery, and healing. The nation's fourth-oldest medical school, the Geisel School of Medicine has been home to many firsts in medical education, research and practice, including the discovery of the mechanism for how light resets biological clocks, creating the first multispecialty intensive care unit, the first comprehensive examination of U.S. health care cost variations (The Dartmouth Atlas), and the first Center for Health Care Delivery Science, which launched in 2010. As one of America's top medical schools, Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine is committed to training new generations of physician leaders who will help solve our most vexing challenges in health care.