Officers

• Wendy S. Levinson, MD, Chair
• David B. Reuben, MD, Chair-Elect
• Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, MACP, Secretary-Treasurer
• Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP, President

2009 - 2010 Directors

• Charles S. Abrams, MD
• Lee R. Berkowitz, MD
• Clarence H. Braddock, III, MD
• Marie T. Brown, MD
• David S. Cooper, MD
• Barry Egener, MD
• Christopher E. Forsmark, MD
• John G. Harold, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FAHA
• Kevin P. High, MD, MS
• David P. Huston, MD
• J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD
• David H. Johnson, MD
• George H. Karam, MD
• Talmadge E. King Jr., MD
• Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD
• Stuart L. Linas, MD
• Catherine R. Lucey, MD, FACP
• Thomas R. Martin, MD, FACP
• Stephen A. Paget, MD
• Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
• Sue A. Ravenscraft, MD
• Richard P. Shannon, MD
• Christine A. Sinsky, MD
• Lawrence G. Smith, MD
• Robert M. Wachter, MD
• Michael R. Zile, MD

Wendy S. Levinson, MD, Chair

Dr. Levinson is the Sir John and Lady Eaton Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Toronto. She is also the Physician-in-Chief at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto. Dr. Levinson was on the faculty of both the Oregon Health Science University and the University of Chicago Medical School. She is a past President of the Society of General Internal Medicine and a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Professors of Medicine. Dr. Levinson is a national and international expert in the field of physician-patient communication and the physician-patient relationship. Her research has spanned a number of highly relevant policy issues, including the relationship of medical malpractice to breakdown in communication, the effectiveness of primary care physicians and surgeons in helping patients to make informed decisions and the relationship of communication in patient satisfaction. At present, her research focus is on the disclosure of medical errors to patients. Dr. Levinson has contributed to large-scale training programs to enhance the skills of primary care physicians and surgeons in effective communication with their patients. She is also actively engaged in efforts to improve the quality of care of patients through the measurement of outcomes and systems improvements. A graduate of the University of Toronto, Dr. Levinson is a diplomate in epidemiology and public health through McGill University and she received her medical degree from McMaster University. Dr. Levinson is board-certified in internal medicine. She is a member and Chair of the ABIM Board of Directors and sits on the Board’s Executive Committee.

David B. Reuben, MD, Chair-Elect

Dr. Reuben is Director of the Multi-campus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology and Chief, Division of Geriatrics, at UCLA Center for Health Sciences. He is the Archstone Foundation Chair and Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Director of the UCLA Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center. He maintains a clinical primary care practice of frail older persons and attends on inpatient and geriatric psychiatry units at UCLA. Board-certified in both internal medicine and geriatric medicine, Dr. Reuben's current research interests include practice redesign to improve health care quality. He has authored more than 155 peer-reviewed publications, 22 books and numerous chapters. He is lead author of the widely-distributed book, Geriatrics at Your Fingertips. In 2000, Dr. Reuben was given the Dennis H. Jahnigen Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to education in the field of geriatrics. He is a past-president of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. Dr. Reuben is currently a member of the ABIM Board of Directors and sits on its Executive Committee. Also a playwright, Dr. Reuben's play about decision-making at the end of life, Reprieves, had a reading in Los Angeles in 2007. The California Healthcare Foundation commissioned a second reading in 2008. Dr. Reuben received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine. He is a member and Chair-elect of the ABIM Executive Committee.

Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, MACP, Secretary-Treasurer

Dr. Griffin P. Rodgers is the Director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) of the National Institutes of Health, a position he has held since March 6, 2006. As Acting Director, Dr. Rodgers oversees a national research program in diabetes, endocrinology and metabolic diseases, digestive diseases and nutrition, and kidney, urologic and hematologic diseases, the goal of which is to improve the health and quality of life for all Americans. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Rodgers served as Deputy Director of the NIDDK, a position that he still holds. An active researcher, Dr. Rodgers also is Chief of the Molecular and Clinical Hematology Branch of the NIDDK's Intramural Research Program. Dr. Rodgers received a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in the Business of Medicine from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Rodgers is widely recognized for his contributions to the development of the first effective -- and now FDA-approved -- therapy for sickle cell anemia. Dr. Rodgers has been honored for his research with numerous awards including Mastership in the American College of Physicians. Dr. Rodgers has served as Distinguished Lecturer and has delivered several named lectures nationally and internationally. He has published over 150 original research articles, numerous reviews, book chapters, books and monographs. He is a member of the editorial board of several scientific journals.

Christine K. Cassel, MD, MACP, President

Christine Cassel, MD, MACP, is President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation, and a leading expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and quality of care. Dr. Cassel, board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, was the first female board chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine. In April 2009, Dr. Cassel was chosen by President Obama as one of 20 scientists to serve on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which advises the President in areas where an understanding of science, technology, and innovation is key to forming responsible and effective policy. In addition, having chaired influential IOM reports on end-of-life care and public health, Dr. Cassel also serves on the IOM's Comparative Effective Research Committee mandated by Congress to set priorities for the national CER effort. An active scholar and lecturer, she is the author or co-author of 14 books and more than 150 journal articles on geriatric medicine, aging, bioethics and health policy. Her most recent book is Medicare Matters: What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care. A national leader in efforts to inspire quality care, Dr. Cassel represents ABMS on the National Quality Forum's National Priorities Partnership, is a member of the Commonwealth Fund's Commission on a High Performance Health System, and served on the President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry. Dr. Cassel is past President of the American Federation for Aging Research, and the American College of Physicians, former dean of the School of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs at Oregon Health and Science University, chair of the Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, and chief of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. She is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees, is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Medicine of the U.K. and Canada, the European Federation of Internal Medicine, and is a master of the American College of Physicians.

Charles S. Abrams, MD

Dr. Abrams is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and co-Director and Scientific Director of the Blood Center at University of Pennsylvania/Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. He is a sought-after lecturer on topics related to hematology/oncology. His recent publications have appeared in Blood, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and the Archives of Internal Medicine. He is a member of many professional and scientific societies, including the American Society for Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, and the American Society of Hematology. Dr. Abrams current serves as the co-Chair of the Hemostasis-Thrombosis Study Sections of the National Institutes of Health Center for Scientific Review and has formerly chaired the Thrombosis Study Section of the National American Heart Association. Dr. Abrams is also Chair of ABIM's Subspecialty Board on Hematology. He received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He is board-certified in internal medicine, hematology and oncology.

Lee R. Berkowitz, MD

Dr. Berkowitz is the Eunice Bernhard Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill. His academic career has centered on his role as Residency Program Director at UNC. Currently, Dr. Berkowitz serves as Chair of the Alliance for Academic Medicine’s task force on education redesign of graduate medical education. He has served as President of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and as Chair of the test writing committee of the American College of Physicians In-training examination. Dr. Berkowitz completed his medical degree at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. He did his residency and chief residency in the Department of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He later completed fellowship training in hematology at Washington University and UNC.

Clarence H. Braddock, III, MD

Dr. Braddock received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University, his M.D. degree from University of Chicago, internal medicine training in the US Navy and his MPH in Health Care Ethics from the University of Washington. He came to Stanford in 2003, as Director of "Practice of Medicine," a new curriculum effort at Stanford to integrate ethics, professionalism, evidence-based medicine, doctor-patient communication and clinical practice into the first two years of the medical school curriculum. Dr. Braddock has several roles in the School of Medicine, including that of Associate Dean, Medical Education; Associate Chair, Organizational Improvement, Department of Medicine and Medical Director for Quality (Medicine), Stanford Hospital and Clinics. Dr. Braddock is also a Faculty member in the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and is a leader in collaborative ethics education and research endeavors with colleagues at the center, as well as an active participant in the development of a master's degree program in biomedical ethics. He is an active member of the ethics consultation service at Stanford University Medical Center and has been involved in the practice and teaching of clinical ethics consultation for ten years. He also has an active general internal medicine practice at Stanford and teaches in the medical school and internal medicine residency programs.

Marie T. Brown, MD

Dr. Brown is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center Chicago, Illinois. She is a practicing internist and geriatrician. After earning her medical degree from Rush Medical College in Chicago, she completed an internship and residency in internal medicine at Rush-Presbyterian-St.Luke's Hospital. American Board of Internal Medicine certification was granted in 1982 and additional qualifications in geriatric medicine were granted at its first offering by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1988. She became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1993. Dr. Brown, in addition to her clinical work, has participated in clinical research regarding hypertension in the LIFE study and lectures and consults regarding a variety of internal medicine topics including stroke, hypertension, PAD, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease and other age-related issues. She instructs residents and medical students in geriatrics and internal medicine. She is on staff at Rush University Medical Center and MacNeal hospital and chaired the CME committee at MacNeal hospital. She has been active in guideline development for cardiovascular disease specifically congestive heart failure. Since 2003 she has served as a member of the US coordinating committee for the worldwide REACH registry and currently is a member of the PAD coalition education committee. Her publications include reviews in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings and the American Journal of Medicine. Dr. Brown was a member of the American College of Physicians Scientific Program Committee for 2005 and Chair of the Scientific Program Subcommittee for the American College of Physicians Annual Session 2007, and served on the national ACP medical education committee. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Iowa Foundation for Medical Care and on the Board of Managers for the Illinois Foundation for Quality Health Care, the statewide quality improvement organizations for Illinois and Iowa. Dr. Brown serves on ABIM's test writing committee for the Certification Exam in Internal Medicine.

David S. Cooper, MD

Dr. Cooper is currently Director of the Division of Endocrinology at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore and is Professor of Medicine and International Health at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He graduated from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine residency at Barnes Hospital/Washington University School of Medicine. He completed his Endocrinology Fellowship training at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. He serves as an Editor-In-Chief for Endocrinology for Up-to-Date, as a Contributing Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and as the Deputy Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Dr. Cooper is the current President the American Thyroid Association and Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism.

Barry Egener, MD

Dr. Egener, a board-certified internist, is Medical Director of the Foundation for Medical Excellence in Portland, Oregon, where he designs educational programs on empathy, communication, difficult interpersonal interactions and the management of chronic pain. He is also a Communication Specialist at Legacy Health Systems, where he coaches physicians and facilitates resolution of organizational conflicts in the Legacy Internal Medicine Residency Training Program. Dr. Egener is a member of the ABIM Board of Directors, involved in activities related to professionalism and physician-patient communication. He also serves as a reviewer for professional journals including Patient Education and Counseling, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of General Internal Medicine, Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association and The American Journal of Managed Care. Dr. Egener completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Oregon Health Sciences University. He graduated from the Facilitator-in-Training Program of the American Academy on Physician and Patient in 1996, and later served as President of the Academy from 1999 to 2001.

Christopher E. Forsmark, MD

Dr. Forsmark is Professor of Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Florida. He also serves as the Training Program director for the UF Gastroenterology Fellowship program. His clinical and research interests are in the areas of acute and chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic function and function testing, biliary and pancreatic malignancy, and advanced therapeutic endoscopy. He is the former president of the American Pancreatic Association and the author of many book chapters, reviews and editorials, and original research in these areas of focus. Dr. Forsmark is also Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Gastroenterology.

John G. Harold, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP, FAHA

Dr. Harold is the Immediate Past Chief of Staff at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Harold was named Chief of Staff at Cedars-Sinai in 2004. He previously served as Vice Chief of Staff, Secretary of the Medical Staff and Clinical Chief of Medicine and Cardiology. Dr. Harold was born in California, but grew up in New York City, receiving his medical degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. After completing his internal medicine training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, Dr. Harold came to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1982 to complete a fellowship in cardiology under the direction of his mentor, Dr. Jeremy Swan. Dr. Harold formally joined the Cedars-Sinai Medical Staff in 1985 and began his practice in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases. He currently serves as the President of the California Chapter of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the ACC Governor for Southern California. He is a member of the Board of Directors of numerous organizations including the Los Angeles Affiliate of the American Heart Association, Save A Heart Foundation, the Heart Fund at Cedars-Sinai and the UCLA Clinical Faculty Association. Dr. Harold is certified by ABIM in Cardiovascular Disease, Critical Care Medicine, Geriatrics and Internal Medicine.

Kevin P. High, MD, MS

Dr. High is Professor of Medicine in the sections of Infectious Diseases, Hematology/Oncology and Molecular Medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine where he also completed his residency in internal medicine and served as Chief Resident. He completed his fellowship in infectious diseases at Yale University School of Medicine where he developed clinical and research interests in the immunocompromised host. Since joining Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 1993, he has continued his focus on the immune-impaired host. His research is centered on aging immunity and the mechanisms that lead to reduced vaccine responses in older adults. He is the PI of the T. Franklin Williams Scholars Program, that promotes junior faculty development of subspecialists interested in the aging and care of older adults, and is Co-PI on the project entitled Integrating Geriatrics into the Subspecialties of Internal Medicine. Dr. High has authored more than 60 book chapters and journal articles, and his activities are currently funded by the National Institutes of Health, The John A. Hartford Foundation and Atlantic Philanthropies, Inc. He has also received numerous teaching awards and been recognized for his clinical skills as a Best Doctor.

David P. Huston, MD

Dr. Huston is Vice Dean for Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine, Chief Academic Officer for the Houston Campus, Professor of Medicine and of Microbial & Molecular Pathogenesis and Director for the Texas A&M Center for Clinical and Translational Science. He received his undergraduate degree from Wofford College and his M.D. from Wake Forest University, trained in Internal Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and subspecialty trained in Rheumatology and in Allergy and Immunology at the NIH. He was on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine for 28 years, where he rose to the rank of Professor of Medicine and Immunology, held the Cullen Chair in Immunology and was Director of the Biology of Inflammation Center and Co-Director of the HHMI Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine program in the Graduate School of Biological Sciences. At Baylor, he also served as Chief of the Immunology Allergy and Rheumatology Section of the Department of Medicine, Director of the Allergy and Immunology, and the Rheumatology Training Programs, and Director of a NIAID/NIH Immunolgy Physician Scientist Training Program. Dr. Huston has mentored over 30 M.D./Ph.D./graduate student trainees and is an NIH-funded investigator with over 100 publications and several patents. His research interests are Mechanisms of Allergic Inflammation and he is Co-Director for a NIAID/NIH Asthma and Allergic Diseases Cooperative Research Center. He has served on NIH study sections for over 20 years and is currently a member of the Hypersensitivity Autoimmunity and Immune Mediated Diseases study section. Dr. Huston is a diplomate of the American Board of Allergy and Immunology (ABAI) and the ABAI Diagnostic Laboratory Immunology subspecialty, and is consistently listed among the Best Doctors in America. Dr. Huston has held a number of national leadership positions, including chair of the Allergy and Immunology Program Directors Assembly; chair of the Basic and Clinical Immunology Interest Section; chair of the Plenary Committee of the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology; chair of the Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies' Centers of Excellence and councilor of the Clinical Immunology Society executive committee. He has served on several editorial boards, including the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and was a consultant with NASA for human research on the international space station. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Wake Forest University School of Medicine and serves on the President’s Advisory Council for Wofford College. Dr. Huston currently serves an elected member of the Board of Directors for the ABAI, ABIM and the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology, and is a member of the ACGME Residency Review Committee for Allergy and Immunology. In addition, he has been elected to the American Clinical and Climatological Association and to the Association of American Physicians. As an active clinician, educator and physician-scientist on immunological diseases, Dr. Huston’s career is committed to mentoring the next generation of physicians, biomedical scientists and academic leaders in medicine.

J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD

Dr. Jameson is Dean and Vice President of Medical Affairs at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He rose through the faculty ranks at the Harvard Medical School to become Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Thyroid Unit at the Massachusetts General Hospital before moving to Northwestern in 1993 as Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Metabolism and Molecular Medicine. Dr. Jameson is internationally recognized for his research, which has defined the genetic basis of more than a dozen different endocrine disorders that affect reproduction and thyroid gland function. He has published more than 200 scientific articles including reports in the New England Journal Medicine, Nature Genetics, Science, and the Journal of Clinical Investigation, as well as several specialty journals in endocrinology. He is co-editor of the 4th edition of the authoritative text DeGroot and Jameson's Endocrinology. His book Principles of Molecular Medicine received the Best Health Science Book of 1998 award. He was recently appointed as an editor for the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine and is an editor of Harrison's On-line. Dr. Jameson has been the recipient of several awards including the Oppenheimer Award from the Endocrine Society and the Van Meter Award from the American Thyroid Association, and has served as a Visiting Lecturer at leading institutions around the world. He has been elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation, Association of American Physicians, American Academy of the Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.

David H. Johnson, MD

Dr. Johnson is the Cornelius A. Craig Professor of Oncology and Director of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology. In addition, he serves as the Deputy Director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center. He specializes in lung cancer, breast cancer and experimental therapeutics (developing and testing new anti-cancer treatment therapies). He oversees a division in the forefront of cancer treatment and research. Dr. Johnson’s personal research focuses primarily on the development of novel therapies for metastatic lung and breast cancer. His past clinical research efforts have played a key role in the development of new drugs such as erlotinib (Tarceva) and bevacizumab (Avastin) both of which are now FDA-approved for the treatment of lung cancer. In addition, Dr. Johnson has devoted considerable effort to developing unique approaches to cancer therapy based on the underlying biology of cancer cells. This improved understanding of cancer biology opens new lines of investigation that may well culminate in improved treatment and possibly the prevention of some cancers, including lung and breast cancers. Dr. Johnson is the author of over 350 peer reviewed articles, editorials, book chapters and reviews. He is also an editor or co-editor of two major oncology textbooks. In 2005, Dr. Johnson served as President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer and the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Dr. Johnson has served on the Food and Drug Administration's Oncology Drug Advisory Committee, as chairman of the Thoracic Committee of the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group and on the ASCO Board of Directors. He is the Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board for Medical Oncology.

George H. Karam, MD

Dr. Karam, an infectious disease specialist, is the Paula Garvey Manship Professor of Medicine at the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He is a member of many professional associations including the Association of Professors of Medicine, Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease Society of America. His work has been published extensively in leading professional journals including Journal of Infectious Diseases, New England Journal of Medicine and Annals of Internal Medicine. Dr. Karam received his medical degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious disease. He also serves as Chair of ABIM's Subspecialty Board on Infectious Disease.

Talmadge E. King Jr., MD

Dr. King is the Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor and Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Chief of Medical Services at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, Association of American Physicians, American Clinical and Climatological Association, Fleischner Society and is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. King has served on the Lung Biology and Pathology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH); American Board of Medical Specialties; Pulmonary and Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee Center for Drug Evaluation & Research of the FDA; NIH Advisory Board for Clinical Research and the Board of Extramural Advisors of the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute. He is a member of the editorial boards of American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, THORAX and Up-To-Date™ in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. Dr. King has been listed on several of the Best Doctors lists in America for more than a decade (including Best Doctors in America and America's Top Doctors). Dr. King's research interest is the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of inflammatory and immunologic lung injury. His bibliography comprises more than 200 publications. He has co-authored eight books including the acclaimed reference book Interstitial Lung Disease, now in its 4th edition. He recently co-edited Medical Management of Vulnerable & Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Population, the only reference currently available that focuses on the treatment of patients living with chronic diseases in poor and minority populations.

Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD

Dr. Leipzig is the Gerald and Mary Ellen Ritter Professor and the Vice Chair for Education of the Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Adult Development at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. Dr. Leipzig graduated from the University of Rochester, received her M.D. and Ph.D. (Human Genetics) at the University of Michigan Medical Center, completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Rochester and a Fellowship in Clinical Pharmacology at New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center. She has been recognized with numerous awards for her work: She was the recipient of one of the first Brookdale National Fellowships in Geriatric Medicine and was also named one of the first Joy McCann Scholars for exemplary leadership and mentorship in medical education. She has received the American College of Physicians Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award, the ACP-New York Laureate Award and the Society of General Internal Medicine Mid-Atlantic Region award for excellence as a clinician-teacher. Dr. Leipzig's research and publications highlight evidence-based treatment for older adults, the use of restraints in hospitalized elderly, and models for teaching geriatrics, chronic care and evidence-based medicine. Dr. Leipzig is the principal investigator of a $3.0 million grant from the D.W. Reynolds Foundation to improve the training of non-geriatricians in geriatric medicine and the inventor of the "Portal of Online Geriatric Education (POGOe)," a web-based clearinghouse for geriatric educational materials also supported by the Reynolds Foundation. She is the deputy editor of the 4th edition of Geriatric Medicine, edited by Dr. Christine K. Cassel and the editor-in-chief of Focus on Healthy Aging, a monthly newsletter for consumers. She is the Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Geratric Medicine.

Stuart L. Linas, MD

Dr. Linas is the Rocky Mountain Professor of Renal Research at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. After earning a medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine, he completed internal medicine residency at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and nephrology training at the UCSM. He has served on the faculty at the University of Colorado throughout his academic career and has been the Renal Fellowship Director since 1984 and the Head of the Section of Hypertension within the Division of Renal Diseases since 1994. Dr. Linas is the Chief of Nephrology at Denver Health Medical Center. He has won numerous teaching awards from medical students and housestaff at the University of Colorado. He currently serves on the Advisory Committee that developed and implemented a new curriculum for the UCSM. Dr. Linas is on the Board of Advisors and has served as the Chair of the Renal Fellowship Program Directors for the American Society of Nephrology. He is the current President of the Association of Specialty Professors and serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine. He is Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Nephrology.

Catherine R. Lucey, MD, FACP

Dr. Lucey has been actively involved in graduate medical education since her residency. She is currently the Residency Program Director and Vice Chair for Education at The Ohio State University College of Medicine. Her major areas of interest include the teaching and assessment of clinical decision making; analysis of medical errors using the principles of cognitive psychology and the development of strategies to teach and evaluate professionalism. Dr. Lucey has a national reputation as an innovative educator. She has developed new programs to teach physicians how to detect and prevent medical error, and new strategies to help physicians master the cognitive skills needed to provide high quality patient care. Dr. Lucey has been an invited lecturer at multiple institutions across the country as well as at national meetings of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, the American College of Physicians, the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of Professors of Medicine. Dr. Lucey has been the recipient of teaching awards at each of the institutions with which she has been associated. In 2004, she was awarded a Master Teacher Award by the Ohio Chapter of the ACP.

Thomas R. Martin, MD, FACP

Dr. Martin is Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine of the University of Washington and Chief of the Primary and Specialty Medical Service Line at the VA/Puget Sound Medical Center in Seattle. He has been the Director of the University of Washington Pulmonary/Critical Care Research Training Program and has held leadership roles in the American Thoracic Society (President 2002-2003), the American Physiological Society and the European Respiratory Society. He currently chairs the ATS Scientific Advisory Committee which coordinates the ATS Research Program. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Chairs the ABIM Pulmonary Disease Examination Board. Dr. Martin's research program investigates mechanisms of inflammation in the lungs relating to lung injury and antibacterial defenses, and has produced more than 175 scientific articles and one book. Dr. Martin is the Director of the University of Washington Specialized Center of Clinical Research in Acute Lung Injury. His laboratory is funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is an Associate Editor of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, and has chaired major national review panels for the NIH, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the California Tobacco-Related Diseases program and private foundations. He is also Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Pulmonary Disease.

Stephen A. Paget, MD

Dr. Paget is the Joseph P. Routh Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Physician-in-Chief at the Hospital for Special Surgery. His research interests include the identification of effective and safe treatments for systemic vasculitides such as giant cell arthritis, which resulted in the conduct of a randomized double-blinded trial to assess the clinical effectiveness of Methotrexate in the treatment of giant cell arthritis. He was also co-principal investigator in a randomized controlled double-blinded study assessing the effectiveness of salmon calcitonin in preventing osteoporosis in steroid-treated patients with giant cell arthritis and polymyalgia rheumatica, that has demonstrated the clinical effectiveness of calcium supplementation as opposed to calcitonin. Dr. Paget is also studying the association of the Whipple's organism (tropheryma whippeli) as a causative agent in seronegative arthritis. Dr. Paget serves as Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Rheumatology.

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Dr. Powe is the University Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Management Director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, a multidisciplinary research and training center at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions focused on clinical and population-based research. He also is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he directs the Clinical Epidemiology Program which has trained a cadre of physicians in clinical research. His research has involved clinical epidemiology, health services research and patient outcomes research using prospective methods of randomized controlled trials and cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analysis, meta-analysis, retrospective analyses of administrative databases and survey research. He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in chronic kidney disease. He has studied early referral of chronic kidney disease patients, patient-physician contact in dialysis care, cost-effectiveness of screening for proteinuria, racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use among CKD patients, effect of treatment modalities on survival, outcomes of dialysis care by type of ownership, access to transplantation and organ donation. Dr. Powe is a member of the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections, the National Advisory Committee for Healthcare Research and Quality, the National Institutes of Health Scientific Advisory Committee for the United States Renal Data System, the Board of Scientific Councilors of the NIH Clinical Center and the Board of Scientific Advisors of the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, the Institute of Medicine, American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Epidemiology and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians.

Sue A. Ravenscraft, MD

Dr. Ravenscraft is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, a practitioner in the Pulmonary, Sleep and Critical Care Division of Park Nicollet Clinic and Medical Director of Intensive Care at Methodist Hospital. Her research and areas of professional interest include: mechanical ventilation, asthma and pregnancy, improving and developing clinical order entry in the ICU and intensive care unit protocol implementation around Ventilator Associated Pneumonia, Sepsis Bundle and Induced Hypothermia Post Cardiac Arrest. Dr. Ravenscraft completed her residency in internal medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center and her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at University of Minnesota. She is the Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Critical Care Medicine.

Richard P. Shannon, MD

Dr. Shannon, a pioneer in patient safety, is the Frank Wister Thomas Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He currently serves as Chair of the Department of Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania Health System. Before joining the University of Pennsylvania in 2006, Dr. Shannon served as the Claude R. Joyner Professor of Medicine at Drexel University College of Medicine. Prior to that, he spent 14 years at Harvard Medical School, serving in a variety of capacities: Research Fellow, Instructor of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Medicine and finally Associate Professor of Medicine, and The Francis Weld Peabody Scholar. He continues to serve as a Lecturer in Medicine today. His work in patient safety has been featured in the Wall Street Journal and ABC’s 20/20, and he has served as a mentor for the IHI 100,000 Lives campaign. His work on patient safety was a centerpiece for the PBS feature entitled "Remaking American Medicine." Dr. Shannon is a member of the (PA) Governor’s Special Panel on Patient Safety and the Technical Advisory Group of the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council. He has served as a consultant to the Delmarva Foundation, The Safest in America Consortium, Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Massachusetts, the New York City Business Group on Health and the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce. Dr. Shannon graduated cum laude from Princeton University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology. He earned his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Shannon is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.

Christine A. Sinsky, MD

Dr. Sinsky practices internal medicine at Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans, Iowa's oldest multi-specialty group practice medical clinic, located in Dubuque, Iowa. Dr. Sinsky has served on numerous professional panels and committees, including with the Society of Internal Medicine's Blue Ribbon Panel on the Future of General Internal Medicine (2005 – 2006), the American College of Physicians (2006 – present) and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (2005 – present). Dr Sinsky has also given regional and national workshops on improving office practice and on coding. She has been a consultant to several academic medical center general internal medicine departments regarding improving ambulatory practice. Her areas of focus include ambulatory practice redesign, quality improvement and performance measurement, health policy, and health information technology. Dr. Sinsky received her B.S. and M.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and completed her postgraduate residency at Gundersen Medical Foundation/La Crosse Lutheran Hospital, in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, from 1982–1986 serving as Chief Medical resident in 1986.

Lawrence G. Smith, MD

Dr. Smith is founding dean of the Hofstra University School of Medicine in partnership with the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. As founding dean, Dr. Smith is responsible for leading the strategic planning to develop the curriculum, facilities and programs of the new medical school, as well as facilitating the accreditation process and recruiting administrators and faculty. He is also Chief Medical Officer of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System, where he serves as the health system's senior physician, responsible for the overall professional management of clinical, education, research and operational issues related to all medical and clinical affairs throughout the North Shore-LIJ Health System. Dr. Smith joined the health system in May 2005 as the Chief Academic Officer and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, where he oversaw the academic and educational activities across the nation's third-largest not-for-profit healthcare system. After graduating from Fordham University, he earned his medical degree from New York University School of Medicine. His residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital was followed by military service as Captain in the Army Medical Corps at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center in Denver. Dr. Smith practiced general internal medicine at SUNY Stony Brook and became a full-time faculty member, Director of Education and Program Director of the Residency Program in Internal Medicine. He joined the faculty of Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1994 as Vice Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Residency Program Director. In 2002, he was appointed to the position of Dean for Medical Education. He also founded the Institute for Medical Education at Mount Sinai. Dr. Smith has held senior leadership positions in national societies for medical education and residency training, authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in the area of medical education and received awards and honors from national and international organizations.

Robert M. Wachter, MD

Dr. Wachter is Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Associate Chairman of UCSF's Department of Medicine and Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center. He was the first-elected President of the Society of Hospital Medicine. He has published nearly 200 articles and 5 books in the areas of clinical epidemiology, health policy and economics, medical education and ethics. He coined the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, and is generally acknowledged as the academic leader of the new field. He is also a national leader in the fields of patient safety and health care quality. He is editor of AHRQ WebM&M, an online case-based patient safety journal, and AHRQ Patient Safety Network, the leading federal patient safety portal. His book on medical errors, Internal Bleeding: The Truth Behind America's Terrifying Epidemic of Medical Mistakes, now in its fourth printing, has been a national bestseller that has received reviews in The New York Times and Library Journal. Dr. Wachter has discussed patient safety on Good Morning America, PBS's NewsHour, CNN's American Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch and Imus in the Morning.

Michael R. Zile, MD

Dr. Zile is currently the Charles Ezra Daniel Professor of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He also serves as the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit at the Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veteran's Affairs Medical Center in Charleston. He is a graduate of Rush University School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois. He did his Internal Medicine residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicago, a clinical Cardiology fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and a research Cardiology fellowship at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston. Dr. Zile's research career has involved both basic laboratory research examining the mechanisms of disease development and progression and translational clinical research examining the application of these basic mechanisms to development of effective treatment methods. Dr. Zile is a recognized leader in the areas of cardiac function, congestive heart failure, diastolic heart failure and valvular heart disease. His research is supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Medical University of South Carolina. He is the author of over 135 peer reviewed publications. Dr. Zile has served on the research, educational and program committees of these organizations. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Circulation, Congestive Heart Failure, as well as editorial consultant to a number of others including Circulation Research, Journal of Clinical Investigation and the American Journal of Physiology. He serves as Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease.