Dr. Susan Pannullo, associate professor of clinical neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and director of neuro-oncology at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, has been chosen as a fellow for the nation's most prestigious leadership program for women in academic medicine.
Dr. Pannullo is one of 54 senior women faculty selected for the 2010–2011 class of fellows by The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women at Drexel University College of Medicine. ELAM is the only national program dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for leadership at academic health centers. The new fellows join a diverse community of leaders and represent more than 50 medical, dental and public health schools from across the United States and Canada.
Dr. Pannullo received her undergraduate degree with honors in anthropology from Cornell University in 1983 and her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College (now Weill Cornell Medical College) in 1987. Following a medicine internship at Harvard–Beth Israel Medical Center, she completed a neurology residency at Weill Cornell in 1991. From 1991 to 1992, she was an American Cancer Society fellow in neuro-oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. She then completed a second residency in neurological surgery at Weill Cornell and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in 1997, becoming the program's first female graduate.
As an ELAM fellow, Dr. Pannullo will follow a curriculum that adapts lessons in executive management and institutional leadership, such as strategic finance, organizational dynamics, and personal and professional effectiveness, to the academic health center environment. The program's ultimate mission is to increase the number of women in senior academic leadership positions, and it has been very successful.
Currently, four of the 15 women deans at U.S. medical schools are ELAM graduates. In medical schools, 27 percent of women holding the position of department chairs and 29 percent of women holding positions of associate and vice deans were all once ELAM fellows.