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News Release

June 23, 2010

Contact: Chris DeFrancesco, 860-679-3914
e-mail: cdefrancesco@uchc.edu

Two UConn Health Center Faculty Are ELAM Fellows

Named to Drexel University College of Medicine’s National Leadership Program

FARMINGTON, CONN. – Two prominent members of the University of Connecticut Health Center faculty have been selected to the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® Program for Women 2010-2011 fellowship by the Drexel University College of Medicine. It’s the only national program dedicated to preparing senior women faculty for leadership at academic health centers.

The class of 54 includes Dr. Anne Kenny, from the UConn School of Medicine, and Dr. Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou, from the UConn School of Dental Medicine.

Kenny, of West Hartford, is an associate professor of medicine, director of the UConn Health Center’s Master Program in Clinical and Translational Research, and a geriatrician in the UConn Center on Aging.

Dongari-Bagtzoglou, of Cheshire, is associate professor of dentistry and chair of the Division of Periodontology. She practices periodontics and implant dentistry at University Dentists and has a National Institutes of Health-funded research program in oral infectious diseases.

Their fellowship runs through April 2011. More information about the ELAM® program is available at www.drexelmed.edu/elam.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/kenny.jpg
Caption: Dr. Anne Kenny of the UConn School of Medicine has been selected to the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® Program for Women 2010-2011 fellowship by the Drexel University College of Medicine.

Photo: http://today.uchc.edu/images/news/dongari_bagtzoglou.jpg
Caption: Dr. Anna Dongari-Bagtzoglou of the UConn School of Dental Medicine has been selected to the Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine® Program for Women 2010-2011 fellowship by the Drexel University College of Medicine.

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