Dr. Ismene Leonida Petrakis, Yale School of Medicine professor of psychiatry, has been selected to participate in the 2013 Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program. The program is the only one in North America that trains women for academic health science leadership roles in an attempt to address the gender gap at the nation’s medical schools.
She will be one of 54 women who will make up the 19th incoming class of the year-long ELAM program hosted by Drexel University.
“She embodies all of the essential qualities of a leader and is an exceptional candidate for the ELAM program,” said Dr. John H. Krystal, chair of the Department of Psychiatry, who nominated Petrakis.
Petrakis, appointed to the Yale faculty in 1992, serves as director of Yale’s addiction psychiatry fellowship and of the Mental Health Services at the VA Connecticut Healthcare system. Her research primarily focuses on pharmacotherapy for addicts who suffer a co-occurring psychological disorder.
She will spend the next year working on a strategic institutional priority as part of the ELAM program’s Fellows’ Institutional Action Project, the hallmark of the program.