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Donald E. Wesson, MD, FACP Elected Chair-Elect of American Board of Internal Medicine Board of Directors

Philadelphia, PA, July 6, 2006 – Donald E. Wesson, MD, FACP, the S.C. Arnett Professor of Medicine and Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine and Physiology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, has been elected Chair-elect of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Board of Directors. The announcement was made at a meeting held in conjunction with ABIM's 70th anniversary.

Dr. Wesson is a current member of the executive committee of the ABIM Board of Directors. His one-year term as Chair-elect became effective July 1.

Dr. Wesson earned his medical degree from Baylor College of Medicine and continued his postgraduate work there, completing an internship and residency in internal medicine. He completed his fellowship in nephrology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago. Dr. Wesson is board certified in internal medicine.

The ABIM Board of Directors is comprised of 29 physicians who are board certified in internal medicine or one of its disciplines.

About ABIM
The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that grants board certification—a well accepted marker of physician quality—to internists and subspecialists. Certification is a rigorous, comprehensive program for evaluating physician knowledge, skills and attitudes to assure both patients and payers that a physician has achieved competence for practice in a given field. Individual physician certification results may be found at www.abim.org.