ABIM appoints new specialty board, exam committee members

The American Board of Internal Medicine has added new members to its exam committees and specialty boards, the organization announced in a press release.

These groups will aid in the design of new maintenance of certification (MOC) assessments, ABIM stated.

The specialty boards work with medical societies and physicians to create performance-based credentials, the release stated. These boards contain physicians and other health care team members and public members.

“Specialty boards have helped ABIM engage physicians across several disciplines to rate MOC exam content to ensure it reflects what physicians in practice need to know,” Richard J. Baron, MD, president and CEO of ABIM, said in the release. “Our new members will make important contributions to this process, which will remain essential as ABIM plans to begin offering physicians MOC assessment options that better meet their needs. ABIM governance will also lead ongoing conversations with the community to help refine these options.”

According to the release, the exam committees work with physicians to develop the certification assessments.

“ABIM exam committee members are working side-by-side with physicians in their specialty area to set the level of performance required to pass MOC exams,” Patricia M. Conolly, MD, chair-elect of ABIM's Board of Directors and emeritus member of the ABIM Internal Medicine Board Exam Committee, said in the release. “New committee members will bring on-the-ground knowledge from their discipline to this evidence-based, peer-defined process in order to develop reliable and fair performance standards for current and future assessments.”

The new members were added to various board and committees for several specialties, including cardiovascular, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, hematology, hospital medicine, infectious disease, oncology, nephrology, pulmonology, rheumatology and sleep medicine.

The full list of added members:

Mina K. Chung, MD

Barbara Hutchinson, MD, PhD

Dominick J. Angiolillo, MD, PhD

James C. Blankenship, MD, MHCM

Emile Daoud, MD

N. A. Mark Estes III, MD

Paul A. Friedman, MD

Kalyanam Shivkumar, MD, PhD

Anne M. Dubin, MD

Arwa Saidi, MB, MEd

Victor Kim, MD

Jarrod M. Mosier, MD

Marjorie Ewertz, RN

Jonathan D. Leffert, MD

Jane E. Onken, MD, MHS

David R. Lichtenstein, MD

Ugochukwu C. Nzeako, MD, MPH

Christopher E. Shih, MD

Joseph C. Yarze, MD

Cindy A. Leissinger, MD

David P. Steensma, MD

Benjamin A. Hohmuth, MD

Howard M. Heller, MD

Saima I. Chaudhry, MD, MSHS

Ritesh B. Patel, MD

Rachel P. Simmons, MD

Christopher M. Walsh, MD

Tracey Gamer Fanning

Robert G. Maki, MD, PhD

David J. Vaughn, MD

Gary G. Singer, MD

Phyllis August, MD, MPH

Joseph M. Forrester, MD

Eliza F. Chakravarty, MD

Jennifer M. Grossman, MD

Maha Alattar, MD

Dennis H. Auckley, MD

Deepa Burman, MD