Press Releases

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2011 – William C. Little, MD, Chief of Cardiology, McMichael Professor and Vice-Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the Wake Forest School of Medicine, has been named Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease.

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2011 – Sharon A. Levine, MD, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at the Boston University School of Medicine, has been named Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Subspecialty Board on Geriatric Medicine. As such, she becomes the subspecialty board’s representative to ABIM's Board of Directors.

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2011 – Shalender Bhasin, MD, Professor of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, and Chief of the Section of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Nutrition at Boston Medical Center, has been named Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Subspecialty Board on Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism.

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2011 – Richard Stone, MD, Director of the Adult Acute Leukemia Program at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, has been named Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Subspecialty Board on Medical Oncology.

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2011 – Naomi O'Grady, MD, a senior staff physician in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Clinical Center's Critical Care Medicine Department and the Medical Director of the Clinical Center's Vascular Access and Conscious Sedation Services, has been named Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Subspecialty Board on Critical Care Medicine.

Philadelphia, PA, July 1, 2011 – The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) today named new leadership and members of its Board of Directors and subspecialty boards, which encompass the field of internal medicine.

Philadelphia, PA, June 14, 2011 – To assist physicians treating patients with Chronic Kidney Disease, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) offers a new self-assessment tool to examine the care they provide patients with the disease.

Philadelphia, PA, June 2, 2011 – In continuing an effort to ease the quality-reporting burden for board certified physicians, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) will enable board certified physicians to use the ABIM PIM Practice Improvement Module^® in Hypertension to attain recognition and rewards through Bridges to Excellence^® (BTE).

Philadelphia, PA, May 10, 2011 – To assist physicians who treat patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) has developed a new tool to help physicians examine and improve the care they provide patients with COPD.

Philadelphia, PA, March 24, 2011 – Existing criteria for determining subspecialties in internal medicine try to balance the needs of the public against a medical profession that has gained expertise within specific areas of practice, according to a new Sounding Board published in this week's New England Journal of Medicine.