The third cohort of the Leadership and Innovation in Academic Medicine (LIAM) program completed an 11-month course to develop faculty leaders by presenting their projects designed to improve academic work or health care at the University of Louisville. LIAM is one of the most popular programs offered by the HSC Office of Faculty Development.
The 25 members of the class of 2019-2020, organized in five teams, outlined plans for improving faculty research productivity, patient access, employee recognition, communication and active learning in July. This was the first LIAM class to include faculty from the Belknap Campus.
The mission of the LIAM program is to develop the next generation of leaders at UofL by teaching them the skills needed first to lead themselves, then lead with others and finally, lead an organization. Faculty members enroll in an 11-month training program that includes regular discussions and the capstone team projects.
“Leadership is a set of skills that you can practice. It’s not something you are born with or not born with, but there is a set of definable skills, and with any skill, if you practice it, you get better at it,” said Gerard Rabalais, who developed and directs the LIAM program with Staci Saner.
LIAM originally was designed as a program for faculty in the School of Medicine, but has evolved quickly to include faculty members across the university.
“Our five-year goal is for 15% of the faculty at the Health Sciences Center campus to complete this program. Once you get to that tipping point, synergy is going to start to kick in,” Rabalais said. “That is the result of the cross-disciplinary relationships that develop, meet and work with people they would never have worked with before from different departments or across colleges. Now that we have increased interest from faculty on the Belknap Campus, with 16 people completing the program by July 2021, we likely will set the same target for Belknap Campus.”
During the event, the program’s fourth cohort of 40 faculty members was introduced. It is the largest class in the program’s history and includes 11 members from Belknap Campus and nine from Health Sciences Center schools other than the School of Medicine.
Projects and team members in the LIAM class of 2019-2020:
Improving Faculty Research Productivity: David Brown, Linda Fuselier, Brandon McCormack, Susan Ryan, Siobhan Smith-Jones
Patient Access at UofL Physicians: Jennifer Daily, Luz Huntington-Moskos, Marija Sasek, Maria Mendoza, Rodolfo Zamora
Employee Recognition: HimaBindu Dukka, Arpita Lakhotia, W. David Lohr, Suzanne McGee, Michael Sweeney
Communication: Brit Anderson, Tamer Mohamed, Kimberly Pate, William Tse
Driving Active Learning: Michael Egger, James Harrison, Chithra Ram, Jennifer Stiff, Tracy VanMeter, Beverly Williams-Coleman
LIAM program class of 2020-2021:
- Jason Gainous Arts & Sciences
- Kandi Walker Arts & Sciences
- Regina Roebuck Arts & Sciences
- Benjamin Mast Arts & Sciences
- Kevin Gawley Arts & Sciences
- Dawn Heinecken Arts & Sciences
- Amy Flint Education and Human Development
- Douglas Craddock Education and Human Development
- Andrew McCart Education and Human Development
- Ishwanzya Rivers Education and Human Development
- Brigitte Burpo Education and Human Development
- Jill Steinbach-Rankins Speed School of Engineering
- Matthew Fox Medicine
- Adam Ross Medicine
- Ashley Iles Medicine
- April Herrity Medicine
- Beatrice Ugiliweneza Medicine
- Timothy Ford Medicine
- Siddharth Shah Medicine
- Becca Hart Medicine
- Kelly Jackson Medicine
- Sunnye Mayes Medicine
- Jeff Meyer Medicine
- Courtney Smith Medicine
- Joshua Sparks Medicine
- Rebecca Starr Seal Medicine
- Amanda LeBlanc Medicine
- Leslie Sherwood Medicine
- Samuel Carson Medicine
- Clayton Tyler Ellis Medicine
- Kellen Choi Medicine
- Cynethia Bethel-Jaiteh Nursing
- Muna Hammash Nursing
- Imelda Wright Nursing
- J’Aime Jennings Public Health and Information Sciences
- Brian Marrillia Dentistry
- Lavina Myers Dentistry
- Juhi Bagaitkar Dentistry
- Gill Diamond Dentistry
- Ashley King-Tinsley Dentistry
