Maheswari Senthil, MD, named 2025-26 ELAM program fellow

Maheswari “Magi” Senthil, MD, was named a fellow in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program offered through Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Penn., for leaders in academic medicine or healthcare for the 2025–26 cycle. Senthil is the John Wayne Cancer Foundation Endowed Chair in the Department of Surgery, as well as the division chief for surgical oncology and a clinical professor in the Department of Surgery. She also serves as ​​​medical director of the UC Irvine Center for Clinical Research.

The ELAM program is a faculty development program for leaders in academic medicine. ELAM offers an intensive one-year program of leadership training with extensive coaching, networking and mentoring opportunities aimed at expanding the national pool of candidates for leadership in academic medicine, dentistry and public health. Senthil will participate in a one-year curriculum focused on strategic finance, organizational dynamics and personal leadership effectiveness that starts in June and concludes with a capstone event in April 2026.

More than 1,600 faculty members have participated in the fellows program and serve in leadership positions at 300 academic health centers around the world. “We are excited to welcome 100 ELAM fellows and 50 ELH fellows to the class of 2025-26. This cohort comprises exceptional leaders from 118 institutions who are capable of making critical systemic change. The need for the highest quality leaders in academic health care has never been greater, and we are doing everything we can to help meet that need by providing outstanding and innovative leadership training,” says Nancy D. Spector, MD, executive director of ELAM.