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

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

Manjula Ananthram
Andrew Boyle
Jose Finet, MD
Sandeep Kamath
Lazaros Nikolaidis
Richard Patten
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
Andrew Calvin, MD, MPH
Marinos Charalambous, MD
Mehmet Cilingiroglu, MD
Vijay Divakaran, MD
Jorge Fernandez, MD
Hilton Franqui-Rivera, MD
David Fries, MD, FACC
Mark Garcia, MD
Fady Geha, MS, MD, FACC
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
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
Emmanuel Nketiah, MD
Ryan Oeltgen, MD
Daniel Pauly, MD, PhD
Matthew Pierce, MD
Amresh Raina, MD, Mentor
Kamal Riad, MD
Mohammed Ruzieh, MD
Andrew Voigt, MD
Joseph Weiss, MD, PhD
Anita Wokhlu, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT, FSCMR
Anil Yadav, MD

Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology

Prashant Bhave
Jonathan Chrispin, MD
Nils Guttenplan
Sameer Jamal
Rahul Kumar
Michael Lloyd, MD, Mentor
Babak Nazer, MD
Karthik Ramaswamy
Michael Rosenberg
John Schleifer
Alaa Shalaby
George Thomas
Emily Zeitler, MD, MHS, Mentor

Critical Care Medicine

Fahad Alroumi, MD, MEHP, FCCP
Aimee Aysenne, MD
Adel Bassily-Marcus, MD
Paul Bergl, MD
Luis Diaz Caballero, MD
Muhammad Ehtesham, MD
Benedict Ewaleifoh, MD, FCCP, FACP
Michael Gabrilovich, MD, PhD, FCCP
Madhu Kalyan Pendurthi, MD, MPH, FACP
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
Bushra Mina, MD, FFCM, FCCP, FACP
Taro Minami, MD, FACP, FCCP
Pius Ochieng, MD
Jay Patel, MD
Mario Ponce Alvarez
Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH, FCCP
Shailendra Sawh, MD
Israa Soghier, MD, MS
Dante Suffredini, MD, FCCP
Betty Tran, MD, MSc
Charity Tumangday, MD
Abhay Vakil, MD

Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism

Kersthine Andre
Ligia Belalcazar, Mentor
Harikrashna Bhatt
Kamal Bhusal
Mario Chan
Ricardo Correa, MD, EsD
Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS
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
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
Prasanna Santhana, MD
Bridget Sinnott, MD
Steven Taylor, MD
Rokshana Thanadar, MD, FACE
Tom Vaughan, MD
Terri Washington, MD, FACE
Abid Yaqub, MD, FACE, FACP

Gastroenterology

Sushil Ahlawat, MD
Nazneen Ahmed, MD
Karlee Ausk, MD
Jay Babich, MD
Parth Bharill, MD
Steven Carpenter, MD
James Curtiss, MD, FACG
Nader Dbouk, MD, Mentor
William Ergen
Fadi Francis, MD
Richard Fried, MD
Marc Georgi
Philip Gilman
Vineet Gudsoorkar, MD
Anas Kawayeh, MD, FACP
Vikram Kotwal, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF
Jose Lavergne, MD, FACP, AGAF
Emery Lin
Stuart Lubinski
John Mengshol
Arpan Mohanty, MD
Amirkaveh Mojtahed, MD
Farah Monzur, MD, FACG
Nina Nandy, MD, FACG
Vikas Pabby
Laxmi Parsa
Seema Patil
Harini Rathinamanickam, MD
Srinivas Seela, MD
Corina Serer, MD
Mohamed Shoreibah, MD, Mentor
Mandeep Singh
Rohit Singhania
Arun Srivatsa, MD
Rashid Syed
Nathan Tofteland, MD
Ravi Vachhani, MD
David Zink

Geriatric Medicine

Sik Ang, MD
Rayomand Bengali, MD
Grace Chen, MD
Huai Cheng, MD, MPH
Kimberly Dixon, MD
Priyanka Duggal, MD
Edet Elensi, MD
Paula Folger, MD
Tyson Garfield, DO
Rani Gundavarapu, MD
Nannette Hoffman, MD
Abid Iraqi, MD
Mahmoud Ismail, MBBCh
Ecler Jaqua, MD, FAAFP
Robert Jayes, MD, FACP
Herbert Keating, MD
Luke Kim, MD, MEd
Keiko Kimura, 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
John Naumovski, MD
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

Mohsen Arani, MD
Florence Arnold, MD
Shukaib Arslan, MD
Shebli Atrash, MD
Bruno Bastos, MD
Joan Beckman, MD, PhD
Amer Beitinjaneh, MD
Laura Brett, MD
Claudio Brunstein, MD, PhD
Vince Cataldo, MD, Mentor
Richard Chang, MD
Ajoy Dias, MD
Paul Fishkin, MD
Sandeep Grewal, MD
Rajinder Grover, MD
Vallathucherry Harish, MD
Jesus Hermosillo Rodriguez, MD
Srilatha Hosur, MD
Anthony Hunter, MD
Atif Hussein, MD, FACP, MMM
Joshua Kra, MD
Monica Lee, MD
Sreeram Maddipatla, MD
Hanh Mai, DO
Peter Maslak, MD
Rakesh Mehta, MD
Tejo Musunuru, MD
Thein Oo, MD
Ashok Pai, MD
Shinoj Pattali Jayavalsan, MD
Jenny Petkova, MD
Rajiv Pruthi, MBBS
Kelvin Raybon, MD, FACP
Shahzad Raza, MD
Ayman Saad, 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
Oscar Dellinger, MD
Diane Dietzen, MD
Katreece Ellis, MD
Molly Feely, MD
Kelly Ferraro, MD
Pamela Gordon, 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
Edward Martin, MD, MPH
Brian Mikolasko, MD, HMDC
Vandana Nagpal, MD, Mentor
Jayson Neagle, 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, Mentor
Renato Samala, MD, MHPE, FACP, FAAHPM
Biren Saraiya, MD
Ky Stoltzfus, MD
Corey Tapper, MD, MS
Cynthia Wallace, MD, MBA, MSPH
Michelle Walter, DO, FAAHPM

Infectious Disease

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

Internal Medicine

Jayanth Adusumalli, MBBS, MPH
Nitesh Ainani, MD, FACC, RPVI
Hania Al-Shahrouri, MD
Suhaib Andrabi, MD, FASN
Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, BMedSci, BMBS, FCCP
Bruce Berenson, MD
Rajat Bhatt, MD
Nathan Cutler, MD
Fernando Fuentes, MD, FACP
Monica Grafals, MD, MPH, MBA
Daniela Grayeb, MD
John Hall
Jared Honigman
Esther Hui, MD
Josune Iglesias, MD, FACP
Theodore James, MD, MSc
Scott Janus, MD
Julie Joseph, MD, MPH, MBA
William Kormos, MD
Patrick Kosciuk, MD
Vladimir Lytchakov, MD
Samyuktha Madishetty, MD
Attila Nemeth, MD, FHM
Natalija Odanovic, MD
Andrew Ofosu, MD, MPH
Jason Ojeda, MD
Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
Neha Patel, MD
Kristopher Pfirman, DO
Maria Posadas Salas, MD
Akuffo Quarde, MD
Alexander Rittenberg, MD
Mohammad Sadeddin, 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
Claudia Thomas, MD
Vivekanand Tiwari, MD
Brian Tran, MD
Manajyoti Yadav, MD, FACP

Internal Medicine Inpatient

Murray Batt
Christine Bryson, DO, SFHM, FACP
Trupesh Chanpura
Audrey Corbett, MD, FACP
Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, MD, MBChB
Xiaoying Deng
Vishal Dhulipala
Ashwin Gopalan
Sarah Hubbell
Sonali Iyer
Rohit Jain
Nayef Kazzaz
Diana Khalil
Ethan Kuperman
Herprit Mahal, MD
Sina Najafi
Joseph Ng
Nathaniel Parker
Maulikkumar Patel
Dimple Patel, MD
Jean-Sebastien Rachoin
Iqbal Ratnani
Joseph Rhatigan, MD
Paul Salama, MD
Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan
Lalit Verma, MD

Interventional Cardiology

Subasit Acharji, MD
Mohammad Al Madani, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Derar Albashaireh, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Gene Chang, MD
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
Sandeep Hindupur, MD
Anand Irimpen, 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
Robert Piana, MD, Mentor
Oscar Rosales, MD
Lior Shamai, DO
Matthew Tomey, MD
Robert Widmer, MD, PhD

Medical Oncology

Isam Abdel-Karim, MD, MSCI, MHA
Mohammad Ali, MD
Avan Armaghani, MD
Madhuri Bajaj, MD
Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD
Lillian Burke, MD, FACP
Ivan Bustillo Chams, MD
Steven Cohen, MD
Dan Costin, MD
Ajay Dar, MD
Jennifer Eatrides, MD
Srilata Gundala, MD
Shilpi Gupta, MBBS, MD
Richard Hall, MD, MS
Hiroshi Ishiguro, MD, PhD, FACP
John Jakob, MD, PhD
Varinder Kaur, MD, FACP
Venu Konala, MD
Lynn Kong, MD
Chainarong Limvarapuss, MD
Wen Wee Ma, MBBS
M. Dror Michaelson, MD, PhD
Mehdi Moezi, MD, FACP
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Giancarlo Moscol, MD
Suchita Pakkala, 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
Heather Tracy, 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
Evgueni Minev, 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
George Sunny MD, FACP, FASN
Jie Tang, MD, MPH
Leslie Thomas, MD
Hani Wadei MD
Winfield Word-Sims, MD
Robert D Zenenberg, DO, FACP
Shams Zia, MD

Pulmonary Disease

Oriade Adeoye, MD, MPH, FACP
Gopal Allada, MD
Dawn Alleyne
Sammar Alsunaid, MD
Puneet Aulakh, MD
Enrique Calvo Ayala
Steven Cattapan
Sujith Cherian
Megan Conroy, MD, MA(ed)
Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin
Marc Feinstein, MD
Arjan Flora
Mark Godfrey, MD
Nadeem Inayet, MD
Nikhil Jagan
Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc
Ismini Kourouni, MD
Prathik Krishnan, MD
Nicholas Kwaan
Rachel Leonard
Edward Manning
Sarah Medrek, MD
Konstantin Millerman, MD, MPH
Imre Noth, MD
Yuji Oba
Ogugua Obi, MD, MPH, MSc
Ravi Patel
Michael Powers
Rakesh Sinha
Amik Sodhi, MD
Rakeshkumar Subramanian
Jennifer Svetlecic, MD, FCCP
Rajive Tandon
Abhaya Trivedi
Robert Vender
Otto Villa
Alexander Zider

Rheumatology

Amritpal Anand, MD, MS, PT
Luke Barre, MD, MPH, RhMSUS, FACR
Matthew Carroll, MD
Emilie Chan
Krati Chauhan, MD, MPH
Samir Dalvi
Nicole Davey-Ranasinghe, MD
Shailey Desai, MD
Julianna Desmarais, MD, Mentor
Sarah Doaty
Nkechinyere Emejuaiwe
Harry Fischer
Kalyani Govindaraju, MD
Michael Guma, DO, Mentor
Indira Hadley
Rumey Ishizawar
Christine Jones
Sonali Khandelwal
Jason Liebowitz
Sian Yik Lim
Judith Lin
Ryan Massay
Leslie Ranken, MD
Jefferson Roberts
Shrilekha Sairam, MD
Amanda Sammut
Beth Scholz
Anastasia Slobodnick, MD 
Bob Sun, MD
Jaren Trost, MD
Luis Vilá
Jason Weiner, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS
Larry Young

Sleep Medicine

Ritwick Agrawal, MD, MS
Maha Alattar, MD
Puneet Aulakh, MD
Omar Awad, MD
Hassan Chami, MD
Ravindra Chandrashekhar, MD, MSEE
Susan Chang, MD
Jean Charchaflieh, MD, DrPH
Stella Hahn, MD
Mariam Louis, MD
Dionne Morgan, MBBS, FCCP
Hyung Park, MD
Salma Patel, MD, MPH
Luis Quintero, DO, MPH, FCCP
Shekar Raman, MD
Joseph Ramzy, MD
Gilbert Seda, MD, PhD
Sai Sunkara, MD
Muhammad Syed, MD, FACP
Lauren Tobias, MD
Jaime Torres, MD
Katie Tran, MD

Transplant Hepatology

Jawad Ahmad
Kapil Chopra
Deborah Goldman, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Batul Kaj-Carbaidwala, MD
Avash Kalra
Zahida Khan, MD, PhD
Ayman A. Koteish, MD
Ian Schreibman, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FAASLD
Mohamed Shoreibah, MD, Mentor