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Current class of ELAM fellows

Women Last in Medical Deanship Positions Just as Men do – Why do so Few Get an Offer?

Designed for mid- to senior-career women in medicine to prepare them for deanships and other senior leadership roles, ELAM invites women faculty possessing the greatest potential for executive leadership at academic health centers within the next five years to complete an intensive, one-year fellowship of leadership training with extensive coaching, networking and mentoring.

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Hearing test

Estrogen May Help Protect Against Hearing Loss, Drexel Study Suggests 

t’s no secret that growing older can be taxing on the body, and this is no less true during perimenopause, which occurs just before menopause, characterized by a significant drop in mature eggs in the ovaries, irregular ovulation, and plummeting levels of estrogen and the hormone progesterone. This drop in estrogen may play a role in hearing loss and help explain gender differences in hearing loss, according to data recently published by researchers at Drexel’s College of Medicine in the American Journal of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Medicine and Surgery.