Item-Writing Task Forces

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, model-based approaches to item development.^†

Model-based question development techniques involve establishing a set of specifications for creating exam questions in a given content area. These specifications are then used to produce many high-quality questions in that content area.

Watch the video below to hear current Task Force members share their experiences with this work. See Task Force openings by discipline.

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Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Ari Cedars, MD
Benjamin Hendrickson, MD
Daniel Sanchez, MD FACC, FASE
Georges Ephrem, MD, MSc
Santosh Uppu, MD
Seiji Ito, MD, FAAP, FACC

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology

Daniel Yip, MD
Tamas Alexy, MD, PhD
Jose Finet, MD
Priyanka Gosain, MD
Liviu Klein, MD, MS
Song Li, MD
Navin Rajagopalan, MD
Mitchell Saltzberg, MD, MSc

Cardiovascular Disease

Karima Addetia, MD
Vitali Aizin, MD
Robert Amory, DO, FACC
Bhaskar Arora, MD
Aurangzeb Baber, MD, FACC
Brian Barr, MD 
Sanjay Bindra, MD
Andrew Calvin, MD, MPH
Scott Cameron, MD, PhD
Marinos Charalambous, MD
Pradipta Chaudhuri, FACC
Mehmet Cilingiroglu, MD
Vijay Divakaran, MD
David Donaldson, MD, FACC, FHRS
Jorge Fernandez, MD
Hilton Franqui-Rivera, MD
David Fries, MD, FACC
Mark Garcia, MD
Fady Geha, MS, MD, FACC
Zachary Goldberger, MD
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
Drew Johnson, MD
Bharat Kantharia, MD
Robert Kim, MD
Anthony Klappa, MD
Constantine Kosmas, MD, PhD, FACC, FACP
Andy Lee, MD
Thomas McGarry, MD
Ali Morshedi-Meibodi, MD
Ajith Nair, MD
Emmanuel Nketiah, MD
Ryan Oeltgen, MD
Samir Pancholy, MD, MSCAI
Patrick Parisi, MD, FACC, FACP
Daniel Pauly, MD, PhD
Matthew Pierce, MD
Amresh Raina, MD
Kamal Riad, MD
Mohammed Ruzieh, MD
Uma N. Srivatsa, MBBS, MAS
Nidhish Tiwari, MD, FACP, FACC, FASE
Andrew Voigt, MD
Joseph Weiss, MD, PhD
Anita Wokhlu, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT, FSCMR
Anil Yadav, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Rishi K. Arora, MD
Jonathan Chrispin, MD
Jodie Hurwitz, MD
James Ip, MD
Michael Lloyd, MD, Mentor
Babak Nazer, MD
Emily Zeitler, MD, MHS, Mentor 

Critical Care Medicine

Ravi Agarwala, MD, FRCPC
John Arbo, MD
Aimee Aysenne, MD
Sarah Hadique, MD, FCCP
Channing Hui, DO
Sameer Khanijo, MD
Younghoon Kwon, MD
Scott Leikin, DO
Taro Minami, MD, FACP, FCCP
Jonathan Paladino, MD, PhD
Omar Rahman, MD, FCCM
Farid Sadaka, MD
Ahmed Salem, MD, MSc
Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH, FCCP
Charity Tumangday, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism

Renee Amori, MD
Carlos R. Arguello, MD
L. Maria Belalcazar, MD
Harikrashna Bhatt, MD
Mario Chan, MD
Ricardo Correa, MD, EsD
Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS
Kaniksha Desai, MD
Kendal L. Hamann, MD
Ngaruiya Kariuki, MD
Anupam Kotwal, MD
Beatrice Lupsa, MD
Joanna Miragaya, MD, PhD
David Reich, MD
Prasanna Santhana, MD
Eric Shiffrin, MD
Steven Taylor, MD
Rokshana Thanadar, MD, FACE
Abid Yaqub, MD, FACE, FACP

Gastroenterology

Uchenna Agbim, MD
Subhankar Chakraborty, MD
Saurabh Chawla, MD
Nader Dbouk, MD
Stephen Fabry, MD
Fadi Francis, MD
Vineet Gudsoorkar, MD
Sumant Inamdar, MD, MPH
Sumodh Kalathil, MD
Avash Kalra, MD
Matthew Moeller, MD
Arpan Mohanty, MD
Corina Serer, MD
Mohamed Shoreibah, MD
Ravi Vachhani, MD
Neha Wadhwa, MD
Mark Worthington, MD, AGAF
Atif Zaman, MD, MPH

Geriatric Medicine

Sik Ang, MD
Grace Ingan Chen, MD
Kimberly Dixon, MD
Priyanka Duggal, MD
Edmund Duthie, MD
Jonathan Flacker, MD
Paula Folger, MD
Tyson Garfield, DO
Herman Hasselkus, MD
Ecler Jaqua, MD, FAAFP
Keiko Kimura, MD
Chandrika Kumar, MD
Tracy Lippard, MD
Francisco Mercado, MD
John Naumovski, MD
Sandeep Pagali, MD
Priya Pinto, MD
Quratulain Syed, MD
Thomas Triatafillou, MD

Hematology

Florence Arnold, MD
Shebli Atrash, MD
Madhuri Bajaj, MD
Bruno Bastos, MD
Joan Beckman, MD, PhD
Kebede Begna, MD
Amer Beitinjaneh, MD
Laura Brett, MD
Vince Cataldo, MD
Ajoy Dias, MD
Chunhui Fang, MD
Paul Fishkin, MD
Sandeep Grewal, MD
Vallathucherry Harish, MD
Jesus Hermosillo Rodriguez, MD
Bruce Hough, MD
Atif Hussein, MD, FACP, MMM
Monica Lee, MD
Sreeram Maddipatla, MD
Hanh Mai, DO
Peter Maslak, MD
Carol Mathew, MD
Debashish Misra, MD
Sanjay Mohan, MD, MSCI
Hemant Murthy, MD
Gayatri Nimmagad, MD
Thein Oo, MD
Ashok Pai, MD
Jenny Petkova, MD
Rajiv Pruthi, MBBS
Kelvin Raybon, MD, FACP
Ayman Saad, MD
Roberto Sica, MD
Sukanthini Subbiah, MD
Nimit Sudan, MD
Thomas Warr, MD
Basem Madgy William, MD, MRCP(UK), FACP

Hospice & Palliative Medicine

Kathleen Akgun, MD, MS
Lawrence Berk, MD, PhD
Ana Berlin, MD, MPH
Eugene Choi, MD
Oscar Dellinger, MD
Diane Dietzen, MD
Katreece Ellis, MD
Molly Feely, MD
Pamela Gordon, MD
Carl Grey, MD
Rachel Hadler, MD
Margaret Isaac, MD, FACP
Erin Jackson, MD
Carolyn Kezar, MD
Justin Kim, MD
Theresa Kristopaitis, MD
Jeanne Lee, MD
Jane Loitman, MD, MBA, FAAHPM
Adam Marks, MD, MPH, FAAHPM
Edward Martin, MD, MPH
Brian Mikolasko, MD, HMDC
Vandana Nagpal, MD
Jayson Neagle, MD
Richard Orlan, MD
Silviu Pasniciuc, MD, MS, FACP
Biral Patel, MD
Ravi Pathak, MD
Catherine Pham, MD
Jennifer Poole, DO
Beth Popp, MD
James Powers, MD
Sandra Sacks, MD, MEd
Renato Samala, MD, MHPE, FACP, FAAHPM
Biren Saraiya, MD
Callie Schnitker, MD
Timothy Siegel, MD, FACS
Ky Stoltzfus, MD
Keith Swetz, MD, MA
Corey Tapper, MD, MS
Cynthia Wallace, MD, MBA, MSPH
Michelle Walter, DO, FAAHPM

Hospital Medicine

Christine Bryson, DO, SFHM, FACP
Audrey Corbett, MD, FACP
Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, MD, MBChB
David Goldstein, MD
James Liszewski, MD
Herprit Mahal, MD
Richard Myers, MD
Dimple Patel, MD
Paul Salama, MD
Joseph Rhatigan, MD
Lalit Verma, MD

Infectious Disease

John Albin, MD, PhD
Vladimir Berthaud, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, CPH, DTMH
Jose Castro, MD
Sonia Chimienti, MD
Nicolas Cortes-Penfield, MD
Jose Ernesto Campo Maldonado, MD, MSCI, FACP
Molly Fleece, MD
Anna Kaltsas, MD, MS
Janaki Kuruppu, MD
Samuel Lee, MD, PhD
Ira Leviton, MD
Miguel Madariaga, MD, MSc
Benjamin Miko, MD
Sherif Mossad, MD
Obinna Nnedu, MD, MPH
Praveen Raghavendra Anegondhi Sudhindra, MD
Roseanne Ressner, DO
Karla Rivera Rivera, MD, FIDSA
Christian Rojas-Moreno, MD
Rohit Talwani, MD
Olivia Van Gerwen, MD, MPH
Richard Watkins, MD
Joseph Yabes, MD

Internal Medicine

Jayanth Adusumalli, MBBS, MPH
Sudarshan Balla, MD
Trupesh Chanpura, MD, MHA
Matthew Hollon, MD, MPH, FACP
Sarah Hubbell, MD
Josune Iglesias, MD, FACP
Sonali Iyer, MD
Rohit Jain, MD
Justin Kingery, MD, PhD
William Kormos, MD
Ethan Kuperman, MD
Elena Lebduska, MD
Vladimir Lytchakov, MD
Samyuktha Madish, MD
Ghania Masri, MD
Jason Ojeda, MD
Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
Neha Patel, MD
Poornima Ramadas, MD
Rachel Ramirez, MD, FACP
Alexander Rittenberg, MD
Michelle Rossi, MD, MACP
Rohan Sen, MD, FACP
Terrence Shaneyfelt, MD, MPH, MET
Ahmed Shoreibah, MD
Cristian Speil, MD
Claudia Thomas, MD
Matthew Tuck, MD, MEd, FACP
Manajyoti Yadav, MD, FACP

Interventional Cardiology

Subasit Acharji, MD
Mohammad Al Madani, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Derar Albashaireh, MD
Prashant Atri, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Marcella Calfon Press, MD, PhD
Calvin Choi, MD
Pranab Das, MD
Mahir Elder, MD
Georges Ephrem, MD, MSc
Ricardo Escarcega Alarcon, MD
Andrey Espinoza, MD
Reza Fazel, MD, MAC
Philip Hall, MD
Yumiko Kanei, MD
Muhammad Khan, MD, MBA, FAAFP, FHM
Nicholas Lembo, MD
Jonathan Marmur, MD, FACC
Carlos Mena Hurtado, MD
Nestor Mercado, MD, PhD
Nowwar Mustafa, MD
Mamoo Nakamura, MD
Angelo Nascimbene, MD
Robert Piana, MD
Oscar Rosales, MD
Lior Shamai, DO
Harsimran Singh, MD
Matthew Tomey, MD
Gil Vardi, MD
Robert Widmer, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology

Isam Abdel-Karim, MD, MSCI, MHA
Avan Armaghani, MD
Taylor Barnett, MD
Lillian Burke, MD, FACP
Jennifer Eatrides, MD
Eric Gamboa, MD, FACP
Srilata Gundala, MD
Elizabeth Henske, MD
John Jakob, MD, PhD
Venu Konala, MD
Jairam Krishnamurthy, MD, FACP
Chainarong Limvarapuss, MD
Michelle Loch, MD
Suchita Pakkala, MD
Devika Rao, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD, MPH, FACP
Heather Tracy, MD
Stephen Wrzesinski, MD, PhD
Yin Wu, MD
Dan Zuckerman, MD, FASCO

Nephrology

Anip Bansal, MD
Emmy Bell, MD
Melissa Bleicher, MD
Gretchen Brandt, MD
Devasmita Choudhury Dev, MD
Abraham Cohen Bucay, MD
Michael Choi, MD, Mentor
Cindy Corpier, MD
Kevin A. Curran, MD
Abhijin Das, MD
Amishi Desai Patel, DO
Wesley Gabbard, MD
Anirban Ganguli, MD, M.Sc.
Samir Gautam, MBBS
Cybele Ghossein, MD
Michael E. Grant, MD, FACP, FASN
John Havill, MD
Musab Hommos, MBBS, FACP, FASN
Navin Jaipaul, MD, MHS
Hazem Kakaji, MD
Hania Kassem, MD
Amir Kazory, MD
Patricia Khalil, MD
Zeid J. Khitan, MD
Jeffrey A. Klein, MD
Adetoye Lufadeju, MD
Erik Lum, MD
Ahmad Bilal Malik, MD
Evgueni Minev, MD
Jair Munoz Mendoza, MD
Franco Musio, MD
Ayodele Ogunremi, MD, MMM, FASN, FACP, CEP 
Janis Orlowski, MD, MACP
Bret Pasiuk, MD
Paul Pronovost, MD
Shehzad Rehman, MD
Dena Rifkin, MD, Mentor 
Leticia Rolon, MD
Helbert Rondon Berrios, MD, MS FACP FASN, FNKF
Subodh Saggi, MD
Norman WG Seay, MD
Jie Tang, MD, MPH
Leslie Thomas, MD
Irving David Weiner, MD
Winfield Word-Sims, MD
Robert D Zenenberg, DO, FACP
Shams Zia, MD

Rheumatology

Amritpal Anand, MD, MS, PT
Luke Barre, MD, MPH, RhMSUS, FACR
Matthew Carroll, MD
Krati Chauhan, MD, MPH
Nicole Davey-Ranasinghe, MD
Shailey Desai, MD
Julianna Desmarais, MD
Kalyani Govindaraju, MD
Michael Guma, DO
Leslie Ranken, MD
Shrilekha Sairam, MD
Anastasia Slobodnick, MD 
Bob Sun, MD
Eleni Tiniakou, MD
Jaren Trost, MD
Jason Weiner, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS
Karen Yeter, MD

Sleep Medicine

Ritwick Agrawal, MD, MS
Maha Alattar, MD
Mohamed Ali Eltoum, MBBS
Omar Awad, MD
Maurits Boon, MD
Pablo Castillo, MD
Hassan Chami, MD
Susan Chang, MD
Jean Charchaflieh, MD, DrPH
Stella Hahn, MD
Mariam Louis, MD
Rama Maganti, MD
Winfred Manda, MD
Dionne Morgan, MBBS, FCCP
Hyung Park, MD
Salma Patel, MD, MPH
Shekar Raman, MD
Joseph Ramzy, MD
Adrian Salmon, MD, MPH, MBA
Sonja Schuetz, MD, MS, MSc
David Smith, MD, PhD
Sai Sunkara, MD

Transplant Hepatology

Ranjeeta R. Bahirwani, MD
Deborah Goldman, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Batul Kaj-Carbaidwala, MD
Zahida Khan, MD, PhD
Ayman A. Koteish, MD
Henry Lin, MD
Saeed Mohammad, MD
Ian Schreibman, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FAASLD
Mohamed Shoreibah, MD