2010-2011 Officers

• David B. Reuben, MD, Chair
• Catherine R. Lucey, MD, Chair-Elect
• Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD, Secretary-Treasurer
• Christine K. Cassel, MD, President

2010 - 2011 Directors

• Charles S. Abrams, MD
• Lee R. Berkowitz, MD
• Clarence H. Braddock, III, MD, MPH
• William J. Bremner, MD, PhD
• Marie T. Brown, MD
• Christine K. Cassel, MD
• David L. Coleman, MD
• Patricia M. Conolly, MD
• David S. Cooper, MD
• David H. Ellison, MD
• Christopher E. Forsmark, MD
• John G. Harold, MD, MACC, MACP, FCCP, FAHA
• David P. Huston, MD
• David H. Johnson, MD
• George H. Karam, MD
• Talmadge E. King Jr., MD
• Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM
• Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD
• Stuart L. Linas, MD
• Catherine R. Lucey, MD
• Olufunmilayo Olopade, MBBS
• Stephen A. Paget, MD
• Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
• Sue A. Ravenscraft, MD
• David B. Reuben MD
• Richard P. Shannon, MD
• Christine A. Sinsky, MD
• Robert M. Wachter, MD
• Keith R. Young MD
• Michael R. Zile, MD

David B. Reuben, MD, Chair

Dr. Reuben, who is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine, is Director, Multicampus Program in Geriatrics Medicine and Gerontology and Chief, Division of Geriatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Center for Health Sciences. He is the Archstone Foundation Chair and Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center.

He sustains professional interests in clinical care, education, research and administrative aspects of geriatrics, maintaining a clinical primary care practice of frail older persons and attending on inpatient and geriatric psychiatry units at UCLA. He has won 7 awards for excellence in teaching. Dr. Reuben's current research interests include redesigning the office visit to improve health care quality and measurement of how older adults function. His bibliography includes over 180 peer-reviewed publications in medical journals, 29 books and numerous chapters.

In 2000, Dr. Reuben received the Dennis H. Jahnigen Memorial Award for outstanding contributions to education in the field of geriatrics and in 2008, he received the Joseph T. Freeman Award from the Gerontological Society of America. He was part of the team that received the 2008 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award for Research – Joint Commission and National Quality Forum, for Assessing Care of the Vulnerable Elderly. He is a past President of the American Geriatrics Society and the Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs. Dr. Reuben is currently Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and sits on its Executive Committee. He is lead author of the widely distributed book Geriatrics at Your Fingertips.

Also a playwright, Dr. Reuben produced Freda Sandrich: Center Stage, a short documentary that was a finalist for a FREDDIE award. His play about decision-making at the end of life, Reprieves, had a reading in Los Angeles in 2007, and two subsequent commissioned readings, by the California Healthcare Foundation in 2008 and by the Friends of the Semel Institute in 2009. His subsequent plays focus on Lyndon Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and on vaccines and autism. He is currently writing a comedy.

Dr. Reuben received his medical degree from Emory University School of Medicine.

Catherine R. Lucey, MD

Dr. Lucey, a board certified internist and geriatrician, is Vice Dean for Education at the Ohio State University (OSU) College of Medicine and Associate Vice President for Health Sciences Education for the OSU Office of Health Sciences. She also directs the Office for Geriatrics and Gerontology, and the OSU Area Health Education Consortium. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and is its Chair-Elect.

Previously, Dr. Lucey was a Clinical Instructor at Harvard University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and Associate Professor of Medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, before joining Ohio State as Associate Professor of Medicine in 2002. She was named Professor of Internal Medicine in 2005.

Her leadership at the OSU College of Medicine was instrumental to the acceptance of their Internal Medicine residency program into the inaugural cohort of Educational Innovations Project sites by the Residency Review Committee of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and is a prior council member for the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Lucey earned her medical degree from the Northwestern University School of Medicine and she completed her residency in internal medicine, including service as Chief Resident, at San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco.

Talmadge E. King Jr., MD

Dr. King, who is board certified in both internal medicine and pulmonary medicine, is the Julius R. Krevans Distinguished Professor in Internal Medicine and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.

He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, the Advisory Council of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Board of Directors of the National Committee for Quality Assurance; the Association of American Physicians; the American Clinical and Climatological Association and the Fleischner Society. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians. Dr. King served as President of the American Thoracic Society (ATS), and has served on the Lung Biology and Pathology Study Section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Pulmonary and Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee Center for Drug Evaluation & Research of the FDA and the NIH Advisory Board for Clinical Research.

He has been a member of several editorial boards including: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, THORAX and Up-To-Date™ in Pulmonary and Critical Care medicine. His research interest is the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of inflammatory and immunologic lung injury. His bibliography comprises more than 300 publications. He has co-edited several books, including the acclaimed reference book Interstitial Lung Disease, now in its 5th edition; Murray and Nadel's Textbook of Respiratory Medicine (5th Ed.); and 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.

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). He received the Trudeau Medal from the ATS.

Christine K. Cassel, MD, President

Dr. Cassel, a leading expert in geriatric medicine, medical ethics and quality of care, is President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the ABIM Foundation. She is board certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine.

Dr. Cassel is past President of the American Federation for Aging Research and the American College of Physicians. She also formerly served as 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 and Chief of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago.

Dr. Cassel is one of 20 scientists chosen by U.S. President Barack Obama to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and is co-Chair and Physician Leader of a PCAST working group that makes recommendations to the President on issues relating to health information technology. She served on the Institute of Medicine (IOM)’s Comparative Effective Research (CER) Committee mandated by Congress to set priorities for the national CER effort. She also served on the IOM committees that wrote the influential reports “To Err is Human” and “Crossing the Quality Chasm.” In 2010, Modern Healthcare named Dr. Cassel among the 50 most powerful physicians. 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.

A graduate of the University of Chicago, Dr. Cassel received her medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards of distinction, including Fellowship in the Royal Colleges of Medicine of the United Kingdom and Canada, and Mastership in the American College of Physicians.

Charles S. Abrams, MD

Dr. Abrams, who is board certified in internal medicine, hematology and oncology, is Associate Chief of Hematology-Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Dr. Abrams 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 and Science.

He is the Secretary of American Society of Hematology, and serves on their Executive Committee. Dr. Abrams has been elected to the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians. He is the Chair of the Hemostasis-Thrombosis Study Section 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 earned his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine.

Lee R. Berkowitz, MD

Dr. Berkowitz, a board certified internist and hematologist, is the Eunice Bernhard Distinguished Professor and Associate Chair of Education in the Division of General Internal 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 a member of the ABIM Internal Medicine Exam Writing Committee and 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 earned 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 and later completed fellowship training in hematology at Washington University and UNC.

Clarence H. Braddock, III, MD, MPH

Dr. Braddock, a board certified internist, is Professor of Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. There he holds several positions, including Associate Dean for Medical Education, Associate Chief in General Internal Medicine, Associate Chair for Organizational Improvement in Medicine and Director of Clinical Ethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. He is also a member of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)'s Board of Directors and is Chair of ABIM's PIM Oversight Committee.

Dr. Braddock has been a national leader in medical education, particularly in bioethics. He launched the Bioethics Education Project at University of Washington, an initiative to expand ethics and professionalism education, and the Practice of Medicine program at Stanford, a new initiative to integrate ethics, professionalism, doctor-patient communication and population health into the pre-clerkship medical school curriculum. His research has focused on shared decision making and patient-physician communication, having developed a framework for teaching and for evaluation of practice.

Dr. Braddock is currently Chair of the Ethics Committee for the Society of General Internal Medicine and serves on the Ethics, Professionalism and Human Rights Committee for the American College of Physicians. He is Director of the National Consortium for Multicultural Education for Health Professionals, a group of 18 medical schools funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute to develop curriculum in cultural competence and health care disparities.

Dr. Braddock earned his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and medical degree at the University of Chicago. He completed residency training in the U.S. Navy and received his master's in public health degree in health care ethics from the University of Washington.

William J. Bremner, MD, PhD

Dr. Bremner, a board certified internist, is the Robert G. Petersdorf Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He is Co-Founder and director of the Center for Research in Reproduction and Contraception at the University of Washington. Funded continuously by the NIH since 1979, the Center investigates the basic biology of male reproduction, infertility and contraception. Dr. Bremner is also an active physician and teacher at University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle.

He is the author or co-author of over 200 scientific publications and over 50 book chapters and has held more than 100 invited lectureships and visiting professorships around the world over the past 25 years. He is a member of Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honorary and a recipient of the Henry Christian Award for Excellence in Research from the American Federation for Clinical Research. In 2003 he received the University of Washington School of Medicine Distinguished Alumni Award, and in 2005 he was given the Mayo Soley Award by the Western Society for Clinical Investigation in recognition of lifetime achievement in scientific endeavors and for his concern for junior faculty. He has been elected to the scientific and honorary societies: American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Associations of American Physicians.

He is the Past-President of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) and the American Society of Andrology. He has served on numerous national and international bodies, including NIH review groups, the Steering Committee for the World Health Organization Special Program on Research in Human Reproduction and the Expert Advisory Committee, Agency for International Development/CONRAD Program, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Blue Ribbon Panel on Academic Affiliations.

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, board certified internist and geriatrician. She is on staff at Rush University Medical Center and MacNeal Hospital, where she chaired the CME committee. In addition to her clinical work, Dr. Brown 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 has been active in guideline development for cardiovascular disease specifically congestive heart failure. Since 2003, she has served as a member of the U.S. 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 is Chair of the ABIM Internal Medicine Exam Writing 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 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.

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. She became a Fellow of the American College of Physicians in 1993.

David L. Coleman, MD

Dr. Coleman, a board certified internist and infectious disease specialist, is the John Wade Professor & Chair of the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. His work focuses on medical and civic professionalism in medical education and clinical practice.

Prior to assuming his current position, Dr. Coleman was Chief of Medical Service at the VA Connecticut Healthcare System and Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.

He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Boston Medical Center, on the Board of Directors of the Faculty Practice Plan of Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, and is a member of the Executive Committee at Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Coleman is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is also a member of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) Clinical Care Committee and serves on the Editorial Board of Infection.

A graduate of Stanford University, Dr. Coleman completed his medical degree at the University of California at San Francisco. He did his residency and fellowship in the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale University, where he also served as chief resident.

Patricia M. Conolly, MD

Dr. Conolly, a board certified internist, is Associate Executive Director of The Permanente Medical Group where she has oversight of multiple services that impact greater than three million members of Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. Her current work includes the development and use of technology in healthcare delivery with three key areas of emphasis: leveraging the electronic medical record to improve quality, developing applications to engage patients in understanding and managing their health and extending the reach of the delivery system to patients where and when they need care. Of particular interest is the development of web-based applications to support informed decision-making.

Dr. Conolly currently practices at Kaiser Permanente's Oakland Medical Center where she was Chief of Medicine and director of their Internal Medicine Residency Program as well as Director of Medical Education. She chaired Kaiser Permanente’s Northern California Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee, overseeing evidence-based clinical guidelines for medication use as well as the formulary process.

Dr. Conolly earned her medical degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and served on the clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. She continues as a clinical preceptor in the UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program. She is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.

David S. Cooper, MD

Dr. Cooper, who is board certified in internal medicine and in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism, 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 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 is the past Deputy Editor of the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. Dr. Cooper is the past President the American Thyroid Association and Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

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.

David H. Ellison, MD

Dr. Ellison, a board certified internist and nephrologist, is Professor of Medicine and Physiology & Pharmacology and Head of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension at Oregon Health & Science University. He is also a Staff Physician at the Portland VA Medical Center, a practicing nephrologist with an active clinical practice and a dedicated teacher and mentor to medical students, residents, nephrology fellows and post-doctoral scientists.

Dr. Ellison serves on the American Board of Internal Medicine Subspecialty Board in Nephrology. He is Head President Council on the Kidney in Cardiovascular Disease for the American Heart Association, and is the 2010 Program Committee Chair for the American Society of Nephrology.

Dr. Ellison's research centers on the genetic basis of human blood pressure variation and on diuretic treatment of heart failure and hypertension. He has a long standing interest in how salt is reabsorbed by the kidney. His special interest is a protein that is target of thiazide diuretics, drugs that are recommended as first line antihypertensive agents by the Joint National Committee on Detection and Treatment of Hypertension. His laboratory has recently discovered how a new class of protein kinases regulates the salt transport gene in the kidney. Recent work from the laboratory has elucidated how mutations in these kinases can cause a form of inherited human hypertension. This work is expected to lead to the development of new types of drugs to treat hypertension, the most common disease in the United States and in Western countries. It is also hoped to elucidate the pathogenesis of essential hypertension, paving the way for more effective prevention strategies.

Christopher E. Forsmark, MD

Dr. Forsmark, who is board certified in internal medicine and gastroenterology, is Professor of Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Florida (UF). 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, MACC, MACP, FCCP, FAHA

Dr. Harold, who is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular disease, geriatric medicine and critical care medicine, is a 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) and is an attending physician at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute.

Dr. Harold is the Immediate Past Chair of the American College of Cardiology Board of Governors and ACC Secretary. He currently serves on the ACC Executive Committee. 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.

He completed his internal medicine training at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York and completed a fellowship in cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was honored with the Master designation from both the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology.

David P. Huston, MD

Dr. Huston is Vice Dean for Texas A&M University 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 Clinical and Translational Research Institute. He is board certified in allergy and immunology, diagnostic and laboratory immunology, rheumatology, and internal medicine.

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 as Director of a NIAID/NIH Immunology Physician Scientist Training Program. Dr. Huston has mentored more than 30 MD/PhD/graduate student trainees and is an NIH-funded investigator with over 100 publications and several patents.

His research interests focus on 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. Consistently listed among the Best Doctors in America, Dr. Huston has held a number of national leadership positions in the American Academy of Allergy Asthma and Immunology (AAAAI) and the Clinical Immunology Society, and has served on several editorial boards and as 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 American Board of Allergy and Immunology, the American Board of Internal Medicine 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.

He received his undergraduate degree from Wofford College and his medical degree from Wake Forest University. He trained in internal medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and completed fellowship training in rheumatology and in allergy and immunology at the NIH.

David H. Johnson, MD

Dr. Johnson, who is board certified in internal medicine and medical oncology, is the Donald W. Seldin Distinguished Chair in Internal Medicine and Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas Texas. He is a member of the ABIM Board of Directors and serves as the Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board for Medical Oncology.

From 1983 to 2010, Dr. Johnson was a member of the faculty at the Vanderbilt University Medical School where he held the Cornelius A. Craig Chair of Medical & Surgical Oncology and served as the Director of the Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology and Deputy Director of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center.

Dr. Johnson's research interests involve the study of the biology of lung cancer and improving the treatment of this and other solid tumors. He played a key role in the development of the new targeted drugs bevacizumab (Avastin™) and erlotinib (Tarceva™), both of which are now FDA-approved for the treatment of lung cancer. He has authored more than 330 peer reviewed articles and 40 book chapters and edited four oncology textbooks. In 2004-2005, Dr. Johnson served as President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) during which time he helped advance ASCO's quality of care activity known as the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (or QOPI™). QOPI was subsequently adopted as a Practice Improvement Module for diplomates seeking to maintain their certification in medical oncology. He was instrumental in establishing ASCO's Cancer Survivorship Program. Dr. Johnson also 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 Board of Directors of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and the LiveSTRONG Foundation.

Dr. Johnson earned his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and obtained his medical oncology training at Vanderbilt University.

George H. Karam, MD

Dr. Karam, a board certified internist and 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 serves as Chair of ABIM’s Subspecialty Board on Infectious Disease.

Harlan M. Krumholz, MD, SM

Dr. Krumholz, a board certified internist and cardiovascular disease specialist, is the Harold H. Hines, Jr. Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health at Yale University School of Medicine, where he is Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. He is also the Director of the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE).

His research is focused on determining optimal clinical and population-based strategies for improving the prevention, treatment and outcome of cardiovascular disease. The research and its application has contributed to elevating the quality of practice, eliminating disparities, defining new treatment standards, improving professional standards and guiding health care policy.

Dr. Krumholz is an elected member of the Association of American Physicians, the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Institute of Medicine. He was named an American Heart Association Distinguished Scientist.

Dr. Krumholz earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and a master's degree in health policy and management at the Harvard School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and in cardiology at Beth Israel in Boston.

Rosanne M. Leipzig, MD, PhD

Dr. Leipzig, a board certified internist and geriatrician, 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.

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 (ACP) 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. She 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 Geriatric Medicine.

Dr. Leipzig graduated from the University of Rochester, received her medical and doctoral (Human Genetics) degrees at the University of Michigan Medical Center. She completed residency training at the University of Rochester and a fellowship in clinical pharmacology at New York Hospital/Cornell University Medical Center.

Stuart L. Linas, MD

Dr. Linas, a board certified internist and nephrologist, is the Rocky Mountain Professor of Renal Research at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine (UCDSOM). 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 house staff at the University of Colorado. He currently co-chairs the Curriculum Steering Committee at the UCDSOM. 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 has served as the president of the Association of Specialty Professors and on the board of directors of the Alliance of Academic Internal Medicine. He is the past Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Nephrology.

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 University of Colorado.

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade, MBBS

Dr. Olopade, who is board certified in internal medicine, medical oncology and hematology, is the Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Global Health at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the genetic causes of breast cancer, and she was instrumental in creating the Center for Clinical Cancer Genetics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Olopade is Program Director of Fellowship Training for the Section of Hematology/Oncology and a professor in that department and the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Chicago's Pritzker School of Medicine. She is also a practicing clinician and Director of the University's Cancer Risk Clinic.

Dr. Olopade is a leader in numerous professional organizations and has served as Chair of the American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Genetics Education Task Force. She is a frequent lecturer in the U.S. and abroad and has been honored numerous times for her contributions to medicine, perhaps most notably with a MacArthur Fellowship Genius Award and an honorary degree from Princeton University.

Dr. Olopade studied medicine in her native Nigeria, where she earned an MBBS (or Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) with distinctions in Pathology and Pediatrics from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. After completing an internship in medicine, surgery, pediatrics and OB/GYN at the University College Hospital in Ibadan, Nigeria and serving as a medical officer at the Nigerian Navy Hospital in Lagos, Nigeria, Dr. Olopade completed her residency and chief residency at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Following, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship in both hematology and oncology at the University of Chicago.

Stephen A. Paget, MD

Dr. Paget, a board certified internist and rheumatologist, 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, who is board certified in internal medicine, is Chief of the Medicine Service at San Francisco General Hospital and Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco.

Prior to his role at UCSF, Dr. Powe served as the James Fries University Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Director of the Welch Center at Johns Hopkins.

He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in chronic kidney disease. 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 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 Chair of the National Advisory Committee for Healthcare Research and Quality and sits on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine, the American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians and the American Society of Epidemiology and a Master of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Powe earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and his master's in public health at Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residency, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and completed his master's in business administration at the University of Pennsylvania.

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. She also trains Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellows and lectures at the Medical School. She is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary disease and critical care medicine.

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 board certified internist and cardiovascular disease specialist and 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 Fellow in Medicine.

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 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.

Christine A. Sinsky, MD

Dr. Sinsky, a board certified internist, practices internal medicine at Medical Associates Clinic and Health Plans in Dubuque, Iowa.

She is a frequent speaker on practice redesign and the medical home. She has been a consultant to several academic medical center general internal medicine departments regarding improving ambulatory practice.

Dr. Sinsky received her bachelors and medical degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, and completed her postgraduate residency at Gundersen Medical Foundation/La Crosse Lutheran Hospital, in LaCrosse, WI, where she served as Chief Medical resident.

Robert M. Wachter, MD

Dr. Wachter, a board certified internist, is Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), Associate Chairman of UCSF's Department of Medicine, Chief of the Medical Service at UCSF Medical Center, and Chief of UCSF's 50-faculty Division of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Wachter is an expert in patient safety, health care quality and the organization of hospital care; he has published over 200 articles and six books in these areas. He coined the term "hospitalist" in a 1996 New England Journal of Medicine article, and is generally acknowledged as the academic leader of the field, the fastest growing specialty in modern medical history. He is a past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine.

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. Together, these websites receive 2 million visits each year. He has written two books on patient safety, and has discussed the topic on Good Morning America, PBS' NewsHour, CNN's American Morning, and CBS Sunday Morning. His blog, Wachter's World (www.wachtersworld.org) is one of the nation's most popular health care blogs. Modern Physician magazine has ranked him as one of the 30 most influential physicians in the U.S. several times; his #10 ranking in 2010 made him the most highly ranked academic physician in the country.

Keith Randall Young Jr., MD

Dr. Young, a board certified internist and pulmonologist, is Director of the Adult Cystic Fibrosis Program at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) and serves as Co-Principal Investigator of UAB's site in the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's Therapeutics Development Network. He is also Medical Director of VIVA Health, a health insurance company that is part of the UAB Health System.

Dr. Young directed the Division of Pulmonary/Allergy/Critical Care Medicine for 15 years. Before his work at UAB, he served a medical staff fellowship in the Laboratory of Immunoregulation at the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases.

His national positions have included serving as President of the Association of Specialty Professors, President of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors and a member of the Board of Regents of the American College of Chest Physicians.

Dr. Young is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Jefferson Medical College. He completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he remained for a chief residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

Michael R. Zile, MD

Dr. Zile, a board certified internist and cardiovascular disease specialist, is 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.

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. He 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 more than 135 peer reviewed publications. Dr. Zile has served on the research, educational and program committees of these organizations. He serves as Chair of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease, as well as 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 is a graduate of Rush University School of Medicine Chicago, Illinois. He completed his 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.