ABIM established the Item-Writing Task Forces to help meet the increased demand for content associated with providing physicians new, more flexible assessment options. These Task Forces develop exam content by utilizing a combination of traditional and innovative approaches to item development.
Watch the video below to hear current Task Force members share their experiences with this work. See Task Force openings by discipline.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Georges Ephrem, MD, MSc
Benjamin Hendrickson, MD
Seiji Ito, MD, FAAP, FACC
Daniel Sanchez, MD FACC, FASE
Santosh Uppu, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Naveed Akhtar, MD
Manjula Ananthram, MD
Andrew Boyle, MD
David Feldman, MD
Jose Finet, MD
Sandeep Kamath, MD
Lazaros Nikolaidis, MD
Richard Patten, MD
Navin Rajagopalan, MD
Daniel Yip, MD, Mentor
Cardiovascular Disease
Karima Addetia, MD
Bhaskar Arora, MD
Aurangzeb Baber, MD, FACC
Brian Barr, MD
Sanjay Bindra, MD
Marinos Charalambous, MD
Vijay Divakaran, MD
Jorge Fernandez, MD
Hilton Franqui-Rivera, MD
David Fries, MD, FACC
Mark Garcia, MD
Zachary Goldberger, MD, Mentor
Sanjeev Goyal, MD
Mary Gray, MD
Bernard Gros, MD
Richard A. Hahn, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP
Ido Heletz, MD
Rahul Jain, MD, MPH
Rajat Jhanjee, MD
Bharat Kantharia, MD
Pedram Kazemian, MD
Khaldia Khaled, MD
Robert Kim, MD
Anthony Klappa, MD
Andy Lee, MD
Thomas McGarry, MD
Ali Morshedi-Meibodi, MD
Rohit Moudgil, MD
Ryan Oeltgen, MD
Amole Ojo, MD
Julio Panza, MD
Daniel Pauly, MD, PhD
Matthew Pierce, MD
Amresh Raina, MD, Mentor
Kamal Riad, MD
Mohammed Ruzieh, MD
Michael Sills, MD
Karl Stajduhar, MD
Parag Tipnis, MD
Andrew Voigt, MD
Joseph Weiss, MD, PhD
Anita Wokhlu, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT, FSCMR
Anil Yadav, MD
Maliha Zahid, MD
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Zainul Abedin, MD
Konstantinos Aronis, MD
Prashant Bhave, MD
Sumeet Chhabra, MD
Nils Guttenplan, MD
Sameer Jamal, MD
Yosef Kahn, MD
Rahul Kumar, MD
Karthik Ramaswamy, MD
Michael Rosenberg, MD
John Schleifer, MD
Alaa Shalaby, MD
Faisal Syed, MD
George Thomas, MD
Emily Zeitler, MD, MHS, Mentor
Critical Care Medicine
Hany Abdallah, MD
Fahad Alroumi, MD, MEHP, FCCP
Aimee Aysenne, MD
Adel Bassily-Marcus, MD
Paul Bergl, MD
Luis Diaz Caballero, MD
Christopher Dunatov, MD
Padmaraj Duvvuri, MD
Muhammad Ehtesham, MD
Benedict Ewaleifoh, MD, FCCP, FACP
Michael Gabrilovich, MD, PhD, FCCP
Shyam Kiran Gandam Venkata, MD
Megan Gooch, MD
Alexandra Gordon, MD
Sameer Khanijo, MD
Danai Khemasuwan, MD, MBA
Harish Kinni, MD
Mutsumi Kioka, MD
Younghoon Kwon, MD
Jennifer LaRosa, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Tilottama Majumdar, MD, MBA, FCCP
Devanshi Mehta, MD
Bushra Mina, MD, FFCM, FCCP, FACP
Taro Minami, MD, FACP, FCCP
Pius Ochieng, MD
Jay Patel, MD
Madhu Kalyan Pendurthi, MD, MPH, FACP
Mario Ponce Alvarez, MD
Nariman Saddad, MD
Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH, FCCP
Shailendra Sawh, MD
Vishal Singh, MD
Israa Soghier, MD, MS
Dante Suffredini, MD, FCCP
Betty Tran, MD, MSc
Charity Tumangday, MD, FCCP
Abhay Vakil, MD
Frank Yasnowski, MD
Eugene Yuriditsky, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism
Kersthine Andre, MD
Nadia Barghouthi, MD
Ligia Belalcazar, Mentor
Harikrashna Bhatt, MD
Kamal Bhusal, MD
Mario Chan, MD
Ricardo Correa, MD, EsD
Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS
Dimpi Desai, MD
Ahmed Elsherif, MD
David Erani, MD
Ranjodh Gill, MD
Zeina Habib, MD, MPH
Kendal L. Hamann, MD, Mentor
Elizabeth Helfer, MD
Elizabeth Holt, MD, PhD
Kristen Hyland, MD MHS
Michelle Jardine, MD
Ngaruiya Kariuki, MD, Mentor
Treyce Knee, MD
Anupam Kotwal, MD
Pinky Kurani, MD
Beatrice Lupsa, MD
Ayoub Mogassbi, MD FACP, FACE
Matthew Nicholson, MD, FACE
Omolola Olajide, MD
Samuel Olatunbosun, MD, FACP, FACE
Carmen Pastor, MD
Jesus Penabad, MD
Aman Rajpal, MD
David Reich, MD
Aiman Riaz, MD
Prasanna Santhana, MD
Jawairia Shakil, MD
Bridget Sinnott, MD
Kyaw Soe, MD
Adeyinka Taiwo, MD
Steven Taylor, MD
Rokshana Thanadar, MD, FACE
Tracy Tylee, MD
Tom Vaughan, MD
Tarunya Vedere, MD
Terri Washington, MD, FACE
Sandra Williams, MD
Abid Yaqub, MD, FACE, FACP
Kevin Yuen, MD
Gastroenterology
Sushil Ahlawat, MD
Nazneen Ahmed, MD
Sumant Arora, MD
Karlee Ausk, MD
Jay Babich, MD
William Bauer, MD
Parth Bharill, MD
Ishfaq Bhat, MD
Wissam Bleibel, MD
Steven Carpenter, MD
Subhankar Chakraborty, MD
Jeffery Crespin, MD
Justin Crocker, MD
James Curtiss, MD, FACG
Nader Dbouk, MD, Mentor
William Ergen, MD
Fadi Francis, MD
Richard Fried, MD
Marc Georgi, MD
Philip Gilman, MD
Ekta Gupta, MD
Vikram Kotwal, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF
Emery Lin, MD
Stuart Lubinski, MD
Jose Martin-Ortiz, MD
John Mengshol, MD
Arpan Mohanty, MD
Nina Nandy, MD, FACG
Vikas Pabby, MD
Laxmi Parsa, MD
Seema Patil, MD
Harini Rathinamanickam, MD
Corina Serer, MD
Mandeep Singh, MD
Rohit Singhania, MD
Arun Srivatsa, MD
Rashid Syed, MD
Nathan Tofteland, MD
David Zink, MD
Geriatric Medicine
Sik Ang, MD
Murray Batt, MD
Rayomand Bengali, MD
Grace Chen, MD
Huai Cheng, MD, MPH
Kimberly Dixon, MD
Priyanka Duggal, MD
Edmund Duthie, MD
Edet Elensi, MD
Paula Folger, MD
Tyson Garfield, DO
Rani Gundavarapu, MD
Nannette Hoffman, MD
Abid Iraqi, MD
Mahmoud Ismail, MBBCh
Robert Jayes, MD, FACP
Herbert Keating, MD
Sukhjinder Khera, MD
Luke Kim, MD, MEd
Keiko Kimura, MD
Jeffrey Kuch, MD
Chandrika Kumar, MD
Brian Lavery, MD
Tracy Lippard, MD, Mentor
Lawrence Ma, MD
Jonathan Maks, MD, FACP
Francisco Mercado, MD
Swarnalatha Meyyazhagan, MD
Kourosh Moshiri, MD, MHA, CMD, HMDC, FACP, AGSF, FACCWS
Andrea Ohldin, MD
Sandeep Pagali, MD
Salonie Pereira, MD
Priya Pinto, MD
Nader Rahmanian, MD
Geetha Rao, MD
Unnati Sampat, MBBS, FACP
Shyrl Sistrunk, MD, FACP
Thomas Triantafillou, MD
Alia Tuqan, MD
Brandon Verdoorn, MD
Christopher Wood, DO, FACP, FACOI
Hematology
Mouhamed Abou-Ismail, MD
Florence Arnold, MD
Shukaib Arslan, MD
Bruno Bastos, MD
Amer Beitinjaneh, MD
Claudio Brunstein, MD, PhD
Vince Cataldo, MD, Mentor
Richard Chang, MD
Jason Chen, MD
Joseph Cioccio, MD
Ajoy Dias, MD
Ogechukwu Egini, MD
Paul Fishkin, MD
Victoria Forbes, MD
Radhika Gangaraju, MD
Rakesh Gaur, MD
Sandeep Grewal, MD
Rajinder Grover, MD
Hussein Hamad, MD
John Hancock, MD
Vallathucherry Harish, MD
Jesus Hermosillo Rodriguez, MD
Srilatha Hosur, MD
Anthony Hunter, MD
Atif Hussein, MD, FACP, MMM
Joshua Kra, MD
Rachel Kruspe, MD
David Lee, MD
Sreeram Maddipatla, MD
Hanh Mai, DO
Peter Maslak, MD
Rakesh Mehta, MD
Gabrielle Meyers, MD
Thein Oo, MD
Ashok Pai, MD
Shinoj Pattali Jayavalsan, MD
Jenny Petkova, MD
Gayathri Ravi, MD
Kelvin Raybon, MD, FACP
Shahzad Raza, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD
Ayman Saad, MD
Ethan Schram, MD
Rupin Shah, MD
Roberto Sica, MD
Nimit Sudan, MD
Benjamin Tomlinson, MD
Cherian Verghese, MD, MPH
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Kathleen Akgun, MD, MS
Lawrence Berk, MD, PhD
Ana Berlin, MD, MPH
Eugene Choi, MD
Leah Couture, MD
Neha Darrah, MD
Oscar Dellinger, MD
Diane Dietzen, MD
Katreece Ellis, MD
Molly Feely, MD
Kelly Ferraro, MD
Pamela Gordon, MD
Sahana Gowda, MD
Rachel Hadler, MD
Felicia Hui, MD
Margaret Isaac, MD, FACP
Erin Jackson, MD
Carolyn Kezar, MD
Justin Kim, MD
Theresa Kristopaitis, MD
Jane Loitman, MD, MBA, FAAHPM
Cari Low, MD
Edward Martin, MD, MPH
Michael Mencias, MD
Brian Mikolasko, MD, HMDC
Vandana Nagpal, MD, Mentor
Jayson Neagle, MD
Silviu Pasniciuc, MD, MS, FACP
Biral Patel, MD
Ravi Pathak, MD
James Powers, MD
Vishnu Prathap, MD
Felix Reyes, MD
Shapir Rosenberg, MD
Sandra Sacks, MD, MEd, Mentor
Renato Samala, MD, MHPE, FACP, FAAHPM
Ky Stoltzfus, MD
Jordan Stone, MD
Corey Tapper, MD, MS
Cynthia Wallace, MD, MBA, MSPH
Michelle Walter, DO, FAAHPM
Alison Wiesenthal, MD
David Wilkerson, MD
Infectious Disease
John Albin, MD, PhD
Praveen Raghavendra Anegondhi Sudhindra, MD
Vladimir Berthaud, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, CPH, DTMH
Brian Blackburn, MD
Jose Ernesto Campo Maldonado, MD, MSCI, FACP
Jose Castro, MD
Sonia Chimienti, MD
Nicolas Cortes-Penfield, MD
Michael Czapka, MD
Molly Fleece, MD
Jennifer Hanrahan, MD
Anna Kaltsas, MD, MS
Martin Kaminski, MD
Nabeela Khan, MD
Justin Kim, MD
Rakhi Kohli, MD
Janaki Kuruppu, MD
Swapnil Lanjewar, MD
Samuel Lee, MD, PhD
Ira Leviton, MD
Miguel Madariaga, MD, MSc
Benjamin Miko, MD, Mentor
Zaw Min, MD
Shivakumar Marayanan, MD
Obinna Nnedu, MD, MPH
Karla Rivera Rivera, MD, FIDSA
Jyoti Samant, MD
Vipul Savaliya, MD
Fnu Shweta, MD
Jennifer Spicer, MD
Natascha Tuznik, MD
Olivia Van Gerwen, MD, MPH
Paschalis Vergidis, MD
Angela Villamagna, MD
Richard Watkins, MD
William Wright, MD
Joseph Yabes, MD
Cecilia Yoon, MD
Nabil Zeineddine, MD
Gary Zeitlin, MD
Internal Medicine
Yasser Abdelbaki, MD
Jayanth Adusumalli, MBBS, MPH
Nitesh Ainani, MD, FACC, RPVI
Hania Al-Shahrouri, MD
Benedict Amalraj, MD
Suhaib Andrabi, MD, FASN
Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, BMedSci, BMBS, FCCP
Jyothsna Bandaru, MD
Bruce Berenson, MD
Nathan Cutler, MD
Arber Frakulli, MD
Fernando Fuentes, MD, FACP
Monica Grafals, MD, MPH, MBA
John Hall, MD
Jared Honigman, MD
Esther Hui, MD
Josune Iglesias, MD, FACP
Scott Janus, MD
Christopher Jenks, MD
Julie Joseph, MD, MPH, MBA
William Kormos, MD
Patrick Kosciuk, MD
Vladimir Lytchakov, MD
Mary Mallappallil, MD
Ghania Masri, MD
Patrick Michael, MD
Mrinmayee Naik, MD
Attila Nemeth, MD, FHM
Natalija Odanovic, MD
Andrew Ofosu, MD, MPH
Jason Ojeda, MD
Venu Pararath Gopalakrishnan, MD
Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
Neha Patel, MD
Kristopher Pfirman, DO
Maria Posadas Salas, MD
Akuffo Quarde, MD
Ateeq Rehman, MD
Tom Rifai, MD
Enrique Rincon, MD
Alexander Rittenberg, MD
Carlos Rosario, MD
Bilal Samhouri, MD
Rohan Sen, MD, FACP, Mentor
Terrence Shaneyfelt, MD, MPH, MET, Mentor
Ahmed Shoreibah, MD, Mentor
Prathap Simhadri, MD, MPH, FASN
Cristian Speil, MD
Jennifer Stichman, MD
Muhammad Tahir, MD
Claudia Thomas, MD
Vivekanand Tiwari, MD
Brian Tran, MD
Meiyappan Udayappan, MD
Venkata Vedantam, MD
Manajyoti Yadav, MD, FACP
Internal Medicine Inpatient
Dipesh Bista, MD
Christine Bryson, DO, SFHM, FACP
Larry Cary, MD
Trupesh Chanpura, MD
Audrey Corbett, MD, FACP
Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, MD, MBChB
Xiaoying Deng, MD
Daniel Fang, MD
Shaheen Faruque, MD
Ashwin Gopalan, MD
Sarah Hubbell, MD
Sonali Iyer, MD
Rohit Jain, MD
Nayef Kazzaz, MD
Diana Khalil, MD
Vinod Khatri, MD
Ethan Kuperman, MD
Herprit Mahal, MD
Candice Mateja, MD
Sina Najafi, MD
Joseph Ng, MD
Nathaniel Parker, MD
Maulikkumar Patel, MD
Dimple Patel, MD
Jean-Sebastien Rachoin, MD
Iqbal Ratnani, MD
Ateeq Rehman, MD
Joseph Rhatigan, MD
Paul Salama, MD
Dhaval Save, MD
Raj Sehgal, MD
Bright Thilagar, MD
Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan, MD
Lalit Verma, MD
Prashanth Reddy Yella, MD
Interventional Cardiology
Subasit Acharji, MD
Mohammad Al Madani, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Derar Albashaireh, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Gene Chang, MD
Calvin Choi, MD
Michael Cryer, MD
Pranab Das, MD
Saleh El Dassouki, MD
Mahir Elder, MD
Ricardo Escarcega Alarcon, MD
Sandeep Hindupur, MD
Anand Irimpen, MD
Yumiko Kanei, MD
Muhammad Khan, MD, MBA, FAAFP, FHM
Nicholas Lembo, MD
Spencer Liu, MD
Moses Mathur, MD
Carlos Mena Hurtado, MD
Nestor Mercado, MD, PhD
Mamoo Nakamura, MD
Robert Piana, MD, Mentor
Muhammad Raufi, MD
Oscar Rosales, MD
Rajesh Sachdeva, MD
Lior Shamai, DO
Matthew Tomey, MD
Steven Werns, MD
Robert Widmer, MD, PhD
Medical Oncology
Isam Abdel-Karim, MD, MSCI, MHA
Mohammad Ali, MD
Avan Armaghani, MD
Ambuga Badari, MD
Madhuri Bajaj, MD
Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD
Ivan Bustillo Chams, MD
Steven Cohen, MD
Dan Costin, MD
Ajay Dar, MD
Jennifer Eatrides, MD
Srilata Gundala, MD
Shilpi Gupta, MBBS, MD
Philip Haddad, MD
Richard Hall, MD, MS
Glennh Hanna, MD
Hiroshi Ishiguro, MD, PhD, FACP
Sanjay Jain, MD
Zhaohui Jin, MD
Hyunseok Kang, MD
Varinder Kaur, MD, FACP
Venu Konala, MD
Lynn Kong, MD
Chainarong Limvarapuss, MD
Vincent Ma, MD
Wen Wee Ma, MBBS
M. Dror Michaelson, MD, PhD
Mehdi Moezi, MD, FACP
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Giancarlo Moscol, MD
Suchita Pakkala, MD
Chong-Xian Pan, MD
Kathy Pan, MD
Dean Park, MD
Mehool Patel, MD, FACP, MBA
David Portnoy, MD, FACP
Naga Raja, MD
Devika Rao, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD, MPH, FACP
Savitri Skandan, MD
Samira Syed, MD
Scott Tetreault, MD
Nazim Turhal, MD, MACP
Dan Zuckerman, MD, FASCO
Nephrology
Gaurav Agarwal MD, MSPH
James Alstott, MD
Emmy Bell, MD
Daniel Castro Pereira MD, FASN
Devasmita Choudhury, MD
Abraham Cohen Bucay, MD
Kevin A. Curran, MD
Abhijin Das, MD
Pradeep Dhakarwal MD
Wesley Gabbard, MD
Anirban Ganguli, MD, M.Sc.
Samir Gautam, MBBS
Cybele Ghossein, MD, Mentor
Michael E. Grant, MD, FACP, FASN
John Havill, MD
Musab Hommos, MBBS, FACP, FASN, Mentor
Navin Jaipaul, MD, MHS
Hazem Kakaji, MD
Hania Kassem, MD
Amir Kazory, MD, Mentor
Patricia Khalil, MD
Sana Khan MD
Zeid J. Khitan, MD
Jeffrey A. Klein, MD
Lavanya Kodali MD
Adetoye Lufadeju, MD
Erik Lum, MD
Ahmad Bilal Malik, MD
Jair Munoz Mendoza, MD
Franco Musio, MD
Ayodele Ogunremi, MD, MMM, FASN, FACP, CEP
Janis Orlowski, MD, MACP
Mandip Panesar, MD
Bret Pasiuk, MD
Amishi Patel, DO
Paul Pronovost, MD
Shehzad Rehman, MD
Subodh Saggi, MD
Norman WG Seay, MD
Shani Shastri MD, MS, MPH
Prabhat Singh MD
Jie Tang, MD, MPH
Hani Wadei MD
Winfield Word-Sims, MD
Robert D Zenenberg, DO, FACP
Pulmonary Disease
Oriade Adeoye, MD, MPH, FACP
Mohammed Al Faiyumi, MD
Gopal Allada, MD
Dawn Alleyne, MD
Sammar Alsunaid, MD
Puneet Aulakh, MD
Kavitha Bagavathy, MD
Enrique Calvo Ayala, MD
Steven Cattapan, MD
Bahman Chavoshan, MD
Tze-Ming Chen, MD
Sujith Cherian, MD
Rajany Dy, MD
Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin, MD
Marc Feinstein, MD
Arjan Flora, MD
Mark Godfrey, MD
Yuh-Chin Huang, MD
John Huston, MD
Nadeem Inayet, MD
Nikhil Jagan, MD
Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc
Ismini Kourouni, MD
Prathik Krishnan, MD
Nicholas Kwaan, MD
Rachel Leonard, MD
Nazir Lone, MD
Edward Manning, MD
Sarah Medrek, MD
Konstantin Millerman, MD, MPH
Imre Noth, MD
Yuji Oba, MD
Ogugua Obi, MD, MPH, MSc
Ramakanth Pata, MD
Ravi Patel, MD
Michael Powers, MD
Rakesh Sinha, MD
Amik Sodhi, MD
Rakeshkumar Subramanian, MD
Jennifer Svetlecic, MD, FCCP
Rajive Tandon, MD
Abhaya Trivedi, MD
Robert Vender, MD
Otto Villa, MD
Alexander Zider, MD
Rheumatology
Amritpal Anand, MD, MS, PT
Luke Barre, MD, MPH, RhMSUS, FACR
Matthew Carroll, MD
Emilie Chan, MD
Krati Chauhan, MD, MPH
Bogdan Cherascu, MD
Vaidehi Chowdhary, MD
Samir Dalvi, MD
Nicole Davey-Ranasinghe, MD
Shailey Desai, MD
Julianna Desmarais, MD, Mentor
Nkechinyere Emejuaiwe, MD
Harry Fischer, MD
Kalyani Govindaraju, MD
Michael Guma, DO, Mentor
Indira Hadley, MD
Rumey Ishizawar, MD
Christine Jones, MD
Sonali Khandelwal, MD
Ramesh Kumar, MD
Jason Liebowitz, MD
Sian Yik Lim, MD
Judith Lin, MD
Ryan Massay, MD
J. Suzanne Moore, MD
Luc Nguyen, MD
Rajandeep Paik, MD
Ahmad Ramahi, MD
Prabha Ranganathan, MD
Leslie Ranken, MD
Jefferson Roberts, MD
Shrilekha Sairam, MD
Amanda Sammut, MD
Beth Scholz, MD
Ummara Shah, MD
Mohammad Shakir, MD
Anastasia Slobodnick, MD
Bob Sun, MD
Jaren Trost, MD
Luis Vilá, MD
Jason Weiner, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS
Sleep Medicine
Ritwick Agrawal, MD, MS
Puneet Aulakh, MD, FAASM
Omar Awad, MD
Radhika Breaden, MD
Ravindra Chandrashekhar, MD, MSEE
Susan Chang, MD
Jean Charchaflieh, MD, DrPH
Christopher Cielo, MD
Douglas Dawson, MD
Eric Geil, MD
Stella Hahn, MD
Dionne Morgan, MBBS, FCCP
Hyung Park, MD
Salma Patel, MD, MPH
Luis Quintero, DO, MPH, FCCP
Shekar Raman, MD
Joseph Ramzy, MD
Alcibiades Rodriguez, MD
Gilbert Seda, MD, PhD
Sai Sunkara, MD
Lauren Tobias, MD
Jaime Torres, MD
Katie Tran, MD
Christopher Williams, MD
Transplant Hepatology
Jawad Ahmad, MD
Kapil Chopra, MD
Deborah Goldman, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Avash Kalra, MD
Ian Schreibman, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FAASLD