Heather Heiman, MD, FACP, Named Fellow of Drexel University College of Medicine’s National Leadership Program
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The Department of Medicine is proud to share that Dr. Heather Heiman has been named a fellow of Drexel University College of Medicine’s National Leadership Program.
Heather Heiman, MD, FACP, Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education and Professor of Medicine and Medical Education has been accepted to the 32nd class of fellows in the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program. This prestigious program is dedicated to preparing leaders for senior-level executive roles in schools of medicine by developing the professional and personal skills required to lead in today’s complex health care environment. The ELAM program has been specially developed for senior faculty at the associate or full professor level who demonstrate the greatest potential for assuming executive leadership positions at academic health centers within the next five years.
Dr. Heiman earned her Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School and practices academic internal medicine in the Primary Care Plus clinic, where she focuses on care of patients with chronic medical conditions. Within the College of Medicine, Dr. Heiman developed the physician house advising model to enhance students’ professional development by providing individual, longitudinal physician advising to every student from the first day of their medical education. She came to UI-COM after serving as medical director of the Clinical Education Center at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, where she advanced standardized patient-based education and assessment. She currently chairs the approval committee for the Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment in Internal Medicine for the American Board of Internal Medicine.