Boland has served as assistant dean of resident education and work environment in the Office of Graduate Medical 成人直播 at the UofL medical school since August 2016. Additionally, she holds the positions of executive vice chair of pediatrics, associate director of pediatric residency training and professor in the UofL Department of Pediatrics. Board-certified in pediatrics, Boland is a pediatric hospitalist with and .

鈥淜im Boland is an outstanding clinician educator, scholar and leader,鈥� Ganzel said. 鈥淪he is well positioned to lead the Department of Pediatrics now and into the future.鈥�

In addition to overseeing the pediatric residency program for nine years as program director, Boland oversaw nine pediatric fellowship programs at UofL. She assisted in the creation of the department鈥檚 Development and Behavioral Fellowship, Pediatric Child Abuse Fellowship, Pediatric Pulmonary Fellowship, Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship and Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Fellowship. She also serves the university on the Promotion Appointment and Tenure Committee and the School of Medicine Wellness Committee.

She is a past recipient of the Paul Weber Award, the School of Medicine Master Educator Award and Dean鈥檚 Educator Award for Distinguished Teaching, along with five clinical teaching awards and seven faculty peer-mentoring awards.

Boland was named a fellow of the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program鈥檚 2017-18 class. ELAM is a yearlong fellowship for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry and public health and provides training and experiential learning to help expand the national pool of qualified women candidates for executive positions in the academic health sciences.

She also is immediate past chair of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors鈥� Mid-America Region and a member of its Curriculum Task Force and a past president of both the Kentucky Pediatric Foundation and the Kentucky Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

A聽Louisville native, Boland earned her undergraduate degree from Notre Dame University and her medical degree from UofL. She completed her residency and chief residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in pediatric critical care at St. Louis Children鈥檚 Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis.

Boland succeeds Charles Woods, MD, who has been named pediatrics chair at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and Children鈥檚 Hospital at Erlanger after serving at UofL for 12 years. 鈥淲e thank Dr. Woods for his many years of service and leadership at the School of Medicine and wish him well in his new position,鈥� Ganzel said.

ELAM聽is a year-long fellowship聽for women faculty in schools of medicine, dentistry and public health in which they develop professional and personal skills required for leadership and management in health care. More than 900 ELAM alumnae hold leadership positions in institutions around the world.

Holthouser oversees the design and implementation of the MD program curriculum. She also leads the steering committee for the eQuality Project at UofL, a national pilot initiative to integrate competencies published by the Association of American Medical Colleges related to provision of care for LGBT and DSD individuals into the school of medicine curriculum. Holthouser was a primary investigator on a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to develop a required palliative care educational experience for medical students, and co-investigator on iCOPE, a five-year NIH grant funding the development of an interdisciplinary palliative care curriculum to improve the care of cancer patients.

Among her 24 teaching awards at the university and school of medicine level, Holthouser has received the American College of Physicians Outstanding Faculty Award and twice won the American Medical Women鈥檚 Association Gender Equity Award. The Louisville native is an alumna of the UofL School of Medicine where she also completed her residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics. In addition to her academic duties, Holthouser practices as a pediatric hospitalist at Kosair Children鈥檚 Hospital.

In ELAM鈥檚 21-year history, 17 faculty members from UofL have completed the fellowship. Toni Ganzel, MD, MBA, dean of the UofL School of Medicine, is among UofL鈥檚 ELAM alumnae, and Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS, chair of the Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine, was part of the 2015-2016 class. A complete list of UofL鈥檚 ELAM alumnae is included below.

The 聽(ELAM) Program
University of Louisville Alumnae*

Lourdes C. Corman, M.D. (1996-1997)
Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine
Chief, Division of Medical 成人直播
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Laura F. Schweitzer, PhD (1998-1999)
Professor, Department of Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology
Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
Associate Dean of Student Affairs
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Linda F. Lucas, MD (1999-2000)
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
University of Louisville School of Medicine
Director, One Day Surgery
University of Louisville Hospital

Barbara J. McLaughlin, PhD (2000-2001)
Professor of Ophthalmology
Associate Dean for Research
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Connie L. Drisko, DDS (2001-2002)
Professor of Periodontics
Assistant Dean for Research
University of Louisville School of Dentistry

Susan Galandiuk, MD (2001-2002)
Associate Professor of Surgery
Program Director, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Mary Thoesen Coleman, MD, PhD (2002-2003)
Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Department of Family and Community Medicine
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Toni M. Ganzel, MD, MBA (2003-2004)
Professor of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology,
Department of Surgery
Senior Associate Dean for Students and Academic Affairs
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Faye Jones, MD, PhD, MSPH (2007-2008)
Professor of Pediatrics
Associate Dean of Minority and Rural Affairs
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Kathy B. Baumgartner, PhD (2008-2009)
Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health
University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences

Melanie R. Peterson, DMD, MBA (2008-2009)
Professor of Dentistry
Associate Dean for Clinics and Postdoctoral 成人直播
University of Louisville School of Dentistry

Anees B. Chagpar, MD, MSc, MPH (2009-2010)
Academic Advisory Dean, School of Medicine
Director, Multidisciplinary Breast Program
Associate Professor of Surgery
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Jill Suttles, PhD (2010-2011)
Graduate Program Director, Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Kelli Bullard Dunn, MD (2012-2013)
Professor of Surgery
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Sharmila Makhija, MD, MBA (2012-2013)
Chair, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health
Donald E. Baxter Endowed Chair in Obstetrics and Gynecology
Professor of Gynecologic Oncology
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Ann Shaw, MD (2013-2014)
Associate Dean for Medical 成人直播
Academic Advisory Dean
Professor of Medicine
University of Louisville School of Medicine

Diane Harper, MD, MPH, MS (2015-2016)
Chair, Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine
Rowntree Endowed Chair in Family and Geriatric Medicine
University of Louisville School of Medicine

*Titles reflect the alumna鈥檚 position at the time of their acceptance into the ELAM fellowship