Item-Writing Task Forces

The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) Item-Writing Task Forces are composed entirely of practicing physicians—experts in their fields. 

Role

These taskforces are responsible for developing all of the content for assessments: the initial certification examinations, the traditional, 10-year Maintenance of Certification (MOC) exams and the Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA®) across internal medicine and its subspecialties. Using a combination of traditional and model-based approaches grounded firmly in research, these physicians are critical to the ongoing development of assessments that are relevant to their disciplines, rooted in the latest science and grounded in the complex reality of today's medical practice.

Composition

Physicians of all career stages and practice backgrounds are essential to the success of the Item-Writing Task Forces. Learn more about their experiences in the video below and on the ABIM Blog.

Why Join?

  • Learn how to write assessment items.
  • Explore your specialty more deeply.
  • Engage in complex thinking and problem-solving.
  • Meet your peers across the country.
  • Receive mentorship from some of the leading experts in the field.
  • Earn 20 MOC points for each year you serve.

Task Force Members

Benjamin Hendrickson, MD 
Daniel Sanchez, MD FACC, FASE 
Gentian Lluri, MD, PhD
Georges Ephrem, MD, MSc
Jonathan Cramer, MD
Santosh Uppu, MD
Seiji Ito, MD, FAAP, FACC 

Naveed Akhtar, MD
Manjula Ananthram, MD
David Feldman, MD
Jose Finet, MD
Sandeep Kamath, MD
Lazaros Nikolaidis, MD
Richard Patten, MD
Navin Rajagopalan, MD
Daniel Yip, MD, Mentor

Bhaskar Arora, MD
Marinos Charalambous, MD
Jorge Fernandez, MD
Hilton Franqui-Rivera, MD
David Fries, MD, FACC
Zachary Goldberger, MD, Mentor
Mary Gray, MD
Bernard Gros, MD
Rajat Jhanjee, MD
Pedram Kazemian, MD
Khaldia Khaled, MD
Thomas McGarry, MD
Ali Morshedi-Meibodi, MD
Michael Mollod, MD
Rohit Moudgil, MD
Ryan Oeltgen, MD
Amole Ojo, MD
Julio Panza, MD
Daniel Pauly, MD, PhD
Vasu Palli, DO, FACC
Amresh Raina, MD, Mentor
Mohammed Ruzieh, MD
Jonathan Ruan, MD, FACC
Karl Stajduhar, MD
Parag Tipnis, MD
Joseph Weiss, MD, PhD
Anita Wokhlu, MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT, FSCMR
Anil Yadav, MD
Maliha Zahid, MD

Zainul Abedin, MD
Konstantinos Aronis, MD
Prashant Bhave, MD
Nils Guttenplan, MD
Sameer Jamal, MD
Rahul Kumar, MD
Karthik Ramaswamy, MD
John Schleifer, MD
Alaa Shalaby, MD
Faisal Syed, MD
George Thomas, MD
Emily Zeitler, MD, MHS, Mentor

Hany Abdallah, MD
Fahad Alroumi, MD, MEHP, FCCP
Aimee Aysenne, MD
Adel Bassily-Marcus, MD
Paul Bergl, MD
Padmaraj Duvvuri, MD
Muhammad Ehtesham, MD
Michael Gabrilovich, MD, PhD, FCCP
Shyam Kiran Gandam Venkata, MD
Emilio Ganitano, MD
Megan Gooch, MD
Alexandra Gordon, MD
Daniel Hershberger, MD
Sameer Khanijo, MD
Danai Khemasuwan, MD, MBA
Harish Kinni, MD
Mutsumi Kioka, MD
Sashank Kolli, MD, FACP, FCCP
Tilottama Majumdar, MD, MBA, FCCP
Devanshi Mehta, MD
Taro Minami, MD, FACP, FCCP
Frank O’Connell, MD
Jay Patel, MD
Mario Ponce Alvarez, MD
Nariman Saddad, MD
Christian Sandrock, MD, MPH, FCCP
Shailendra Sawh, MD
Vishal Singh, MD
Israa Soghier, MD, MS
Dante Suffredini, MD, FCCP
Betty Tran, MD, MSc
Charity Tumangday, MD, FCCP
Frank Yasnowski, MD
Eugene Yuriditsky, MD

Kersthine Andre, MD
Nadia Barghouthi, MD
Ligia Belalcazar, MD, Mentor
Kamal Bhusal, MD
Mario Chan, MD
Ahmed Elsherif, MD
Kevin Furlong, DO
Ranjodh Gill, MD
Zeina Habib, MD, MPH
Kendal L. Hamann, MD
Elizabeth Helfer, MD
Elizabeth Holt, MD, PhD
Kristen Hyland, MD MHS
Pinky Kurani, MD
Matthew Nicholson, MD, FACE
Omolola Olajide, MD
Samuel Olatunbosun, MD, FACP, FACE
David Reich, MD
Roberto Salvatori, MD
Prasanna Santhana, MD
Bridget Sinnott, MD
Kyaw Soe, MD
Adeyinka Taiwo, MD
Steven Taylor, MD
Rokshana Thanadar, MD, FACE
Tracy Tylee, MD
Kevin Yuen, MD

Uchenna Agbim, MD
Nazneen Ahmed, MD
Amit Aravapalli, MD
Sumant Arora, MD
Muslim Atiq, MD
Christina Awad, MD
Jay Babich, MD
Hopethe Baker, MD
Weston Bettner, MD
Parth Bharill, MD
Ishfaq Bhat, MD
Umer Bhatti, MBBS
Rajiv Bhuta, MD
Steven Carpenter, MD
Subhankar Chakraborty, MD
Justin Crocker, MD
Tanvi Dhere, MD
Mary Drinane, MD
Margaret Eugenio, MD
Ashkan Farhadi, MD, MS, FACP, FACG
Marc Georgi, MD
Philip Gilman, MD
Ekta Gupta, MD
Robert Hadesman, MD
Virendra Joshi, MD
Stuart Lubinski, MD
Alvaro Martinez-Camacho, MD
John Mengshol, MD
Arpan Mohanty, MD
Amirkaveh Mojtahed, MD
Mohamad Mokadem, MD
Faruq Pradhan, MBBCh, FRCPC
Mark Prince, MD
Rehan Rafiq, MD
Peter Rosenberg, MD, FACP
Behnam Saberi, MD
Thalvinder Sangha, MD
Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH
Mandeep Singh, MD
Arun Srivatsa, MD
Dharma Sunjaya, MD
Kymberly Watt, MD
David Zink, MD

Sik Ang, MD
Murray Batt, MD
Rayomand Bengali, MD
Grace Chen, MD
Huai Cheng, MD, MPH
Kimberly Dixon, MD
Edmund Duthie, MD
Edet Elensi, MD
Paula Folger, MD
Rani Gundavarapu, MD
Abid Iraqi, MD
Mahmoud Ismail, MBBCh
Robert Jayes, MD, FACP
Keiko Kimura, MD
Chandrika Kumar, MD
Lawrence Ma, MD
Francisco Mercado, MD
Swarnalatha Meyyazhagan, MD
Priya Pinto, MD
Nader Rahmanian, MD
Geetha Rao, MD
Unnati Sampat, MBBS, FACP
Alia Tuqan, MD
Brandon Verdoorn, MD
Christopher Wood, DO, FACP, FACOI

Al-Ola Abdallah, MD
Mouhamed Abou-Ismail, MD
Abeer AbouYabis, MD
Nancy Andrea, MD
Florence Arnold, MD
Bruno Bastos, MD
Laura Kyle Brett, MD
Claudio Brunstein, MD, PhD
Vince Cataldo, MD, Mentor
Richard Chang, MD
Jason Chen, MD
Yan Cheng, Pharm. D., MD
Jennifer Colvin, MD
Srinivas Devarakonda, MD
Ajoy Dias, MD
Ogechukwu Egini, MD
Victoria Forbes, MD
Radhika Gangaraju, MD
Mounika Gangireddy, MD
Vedavyas Gannamani, MD
Rakesh Gaur, MD
Eric Granowicz, MD
Sandeep Grewal, MD
Rajinder Grover, MD
Julio Hajdenberg, MD
Hussein Hamad, MD
John Hancock, MD
Vallathucherry Harish, MD
Anthony Hunter, MD
Atif Hussein, MD, FACP, MMM
Kennedy Iheanacho, MD
Nisha Jacobs, MD
Rachel Kruspe, MD
Hanh Mai, DO
Peter Maslak, MD
Rakesh Mehta, MD
Gabrielle Meyers, MD
Kurt Norman, MD
Osarenren Ogbeide, MD
Thein Oo, MD
Nikolaos Papadantonakis, MD, Msc, PhD
Shinoj Pattali Jayavalsan, MD
Jenny Petkova, MD
Natalie Rafaeli, MD
Gayathri Ravi, MD
Shahzad Raza, MD
Darwin Roman, MD
Michal Rose, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD
Ayman Saad, MD
Ethan Schram, MD
Lauren Shea, MD
Roberto Sica, MD
Nimit Sudan, MD
Khurram Tariq, MD
Benjamin Tomlinson, MD
Cherian Verghese, MD, MPH
John Wagner, MD

Kathleen Akgun, MD, MS
Ana Berlin, MD, MPH
Leah Couture, MD
Neha Darrah, MD
Oscar Dellinger, MD
Diane Dietzen, MD
Kelly Ferraro, MD
Pamela Gordon, MD
Sahana Gowda, MD
Rachel Hadler, MD
Felicia Hui, MD
Margaret Isaac, MD, FACP
Erin Jackson, MD
Carolyn Kezar, MD
Theresa Kristopaitis, MD
Cari Low, MD
Edward Martin, MD, MPH
Michael Mencias, MD
Vandana Nagpal, MD, Mentor
Jayson Neagle, MD
Silviu Pasniciuc, MD, MS, FACP
James Powers, MD
Vishnu Prathap, MD
Felix Reyes, MD
Shapir Rosenberg, MD
Ky Stoltzfus, MD
Jordan Stone, MD
Corey Tapper, MD, MS
Cynthia Wallace, MD, MBA, MSPH
Alison Wiesenthal, MD
David Wilkerson, MD

John Albin, MD, PhD
Praveen Raghavendra Anegondhi Sudhindra, MD
Vladimir Berthaud, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA, CPH, DTMH
Brian Blackburn, MD
Jose Ernesto Campo Maldonado, MD, MSCI, FACP
Jose Castro, MD
Nicolas Cortes-Penfield, MD
Michael Czapka, MD
Molly Fleece, MD
Michele Garazi, MD
Jennifer Hanrahan, MD
Anna Kaltsas, MD, MS
Martin Kaminski, MD
Nabeela Khan, MD
Justin Kim, MD
Swapnil Lanjewar, MD
Zaw Min, MD
Shivakumar Marayanan, MD
Obinna Nnedu, MD, MPH
Karla Rivera Rivera, MD, FIDSA
Jyoti Samant, MD
Vipul Savaliya, MD
Fnu Shweta, MD
Jennifer Spicer, MD
Natascha Tuznik, MD
Olivia Van Gerwen, MD, MPH
Angela Villamagna, MD
Richard Watkins, MD
William Wright, MD
Joseph Yabes, MD
Cecilia Yoon, MD
Nabil Zeineddine, MD
Gary Zeitlin, MD

Yasser Abdelbaki, MD
Jayanth Adusumalli, MBBS, MPH
Amer Aldamouk, MD, MEd, FACP 
Hania Al-Shahrouri, MD
Benedict Amalraj, MD
Suhaib Andrabi, MD, FASN
Karen Avgush, MD
Muhammad Aziz, MD
Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, BMedSci, BMBS, FCCP
Jyothsna Bandaru, MD
Nathan Cutler, MD
Rebecca Davis, MD, FACP
Fernando Fuentes, MD, FACP
Benjamin Gallagher, MD, FACP
Emad Grace, MD
John Hall, MD
Jared Honigman, MD
Esther Hui, MD
Josune Iglesias, MD, FACP
Christopher Jenks, MD
Julie Joseph, MD, MPH, MBA
William Kormos, MD
Patrick Kosciuk, MD
Vladimir Lytchakov, MD
Mary Mallappallil, MD
Chad Martins, MD, FACP, AAHIV-S
Ghania Masri, MD
Patrick Michael, MD
Mrinmayee Naik, MD
Andrew Ofosu, MD, MPH
Jason Ojeda, MD
Venu Pararath Gopalakrishnan, MD
Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
Seema Policepatil, MD, MBA, FACP
Akuffo Quarde, MD
Sammar Rasheed, MD
Enrique Rincon, MD
Pahresah Roominay, MD, MS
Carlos Rosario, MD
Bilal Samhouri, MD
Rohan Sen, MD, FACP, Mentor
Anukrati Shukla, MBBS
Anita Sikha, MD
Clayton Smith, MD
Cristian Speil, MD
Jennifer Stichman, MD
Muhammad Tahir, MD
Claudia Thomas, MD
Vivekanand Tiwari, MD
Brian Tran, MD
Meiyappan Udayappan, MD
Venkata Vedantam, MD
Rachel Vuolo, MD

Dipesh Bista, MD
Jeffrey Bontrager, MD
Larry Cary, MD
Trupesh Chanpura, MD
Audrey Corbett, MD, FACP
Kwame Dapaah-Afriyie, MD, MBChB
Xiaoying Deng, MD
Daniel Fang, MD
Shaheen Faruque, MD
Ashwin Gopalan, MD
Mohammed Hamid, MD, MPH
Sarah Hubbell, MD
Sonali Iyer, MD
Samir Jha, MD
Nayef Kazzaz, MD
Diana Khalil, MD
Vinod Khatri, MD
Ethan Kuperman, MD
Candice Mateja, MD
Joseph Ng, MD
Issaka Nsiah, MD, MBA
Nathaniel Parker, MD
Maulikkumar Patel, MD
Dimple Patel, MD
Iqbal Ratnani, MD
Joseph Rhatigan, MD
Dhaval Save, MD
Raj Sehgal, MD
Bright Thilagar, MD
Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan, MD
Alok Tripathi, MD

Mohammad Al Madani, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Derar Albashaireh, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Pranab Das, MD
Saleh El Dassouki, MD
Ricardo Escarcega Alarcon, MD
Anand Irimpen, MD
Yumiko Kanei, MD
Muhammad Khan, MD, MBA, FAAFP, FHM
Nicholas Lembo, MD
Spencer Liu, MD
Moses Mathur, MD
Nestor Mercado, MD, PhD
Mamoo Nakamura, MD
Robert Piana, MD, Mentor
Muhammad Raufi, MD
Oscar Rosales, MD
Rajesh Sachdeva, MD
Lior Shamai, DO
Matthew Tomey, MD
Steven Werns, MD

Mohamed Alsharedi, MD
Ahmer Ansari, MD
Florence Arnold, MD
Prashanth Ashok Kumar, MD, FACP
Vasileios Assikis, MD
Ambuga Badari, MD
Gilbert Bader, MD
Sameer Batoo, MD
Naresh Bumma, MD
Ivan Bustillo Chams, MD
Emerson Chen, MD
Ashish Chintakuntlawar, MBBS, PhD
Steven Cohen, MD
Mehmet Copur, MD
Dan Costin, MD
Senthilkumar Damodaran, MD, PhD
Suresh Devineni, MD
Irina Dobrosotskaya, MD, PhD
Mark Fesen, MD, FACP
Ankita Gupta, MD
Shilpi Gupta, MBBS, MD
Philip Haddad, MD
Richard Hall, MD, MS
Atif Hussein, MD
Dina Ioffe, MD
Sanjay Jain, MD
Zhaohui Jin, MD
Marie Jonsen-Wood, MD
Hyunseok Kang, MD
Nabin Karki, MBBS
Varinder Kaur, MD, FACP
Lynn Renai Kong, MD
Chainarong Limvarapuss, MD
Vincent Ma, MD
Wen Wee Ma, MBBS
Mehdi Moezi, MD, FACP
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Muffaddal Morkas, MD
Giancarlo Moscol, MD
Maria Nieto, MD, MSc
Matthew Olnes, MD, PhD
James Orsini, MD
Suchita Pakkala, MD
Chong-Xian Pan, MD
Kathy Pan, MD
Dean Park, MD
Mehool Patel, MD, FACP, MBA
David Portnoy, MD, FACP
Robert Randolph, MD
David Reisman, MD, PhD
Malek Safa, MD
Shruti Sharma, DO, FACP
Savitri Skandan, MD
Brandon Smaglo, MD
Samira Syed, MD
Ellen Szwed, DO
Winston Tan, MD, FACP, FASCO
Tyion Torres, MD
Nazim Turhal, MD, MACP
Radhakrishna Vegunta, MD
Zhineng Yang, MD
Karen Yun, MD
Marjorie Zauderer, MD, MS, FACP

Prakrati Acharya, MD
Gaurav Agarwal MD, MSPH
James Alstott, MD
Tarek Barbar, MD
Emmy Bell, MD
Daniel Castro Pereira MD, FASN 
Devasmita Choudhury, MD
Abhijin Das, MD
Pradeep Dhakarwal MD
Wesley Gabbard, MD
Anirban Ganguli, MD, M.Sc.
Samir Gautam, MBBS
Michael E. Grant, MD, FACP, FASN
John Havill, MD
Musab Hommos, MBBS, FACP, FASN, Mentor
Navin Jaipaul, MD, MHS
Hania Kassem, MD
Patricia Khalil, MD
Sana Khan, MD
Jeffrey A. Klein, MD
Adetoye Lufadeju, MD
Erik Lum, MD
Ryan Mullane
Jair Munoz Mendoza, MD
Franco Musio, MD
Bret Pasiuk, MD
Leticia Rolon, MD
Subodh Saggi, MD
Maryam Saleem, MD
Norman WG Seay, MD
Jignesh Shah, MD, FASN, FNKF
Shani Shastri MD, MS, MPH
Prabhat Singh, MD
Hani Wadei, MD

Gopal Allada, MD
Dawn Alleyne, MD
Puneet Aulakh, MD
Kavitha Bagavathy, MD
Steven Cattapan, MD
Tze-Ming Chen, MD
Sujith Cherian, MD
Rajany Dy, MD
Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin, MD
Marc Feinstein, MD
Arjan Flora, MD
Mark Godfrey, MD
Yuh-Chin Huang, MD
John Huston, MD
Nadeem Inayet, MD
Nikhil Jagan, MD
Fayez Kheir, MD, MSc
Ismini Kourouni, MD
Prathik Krishnan, MD
Nicholas Kwaan, MD
Rachel Leonard, MD
Nazir Lone, MD
Sarah Medrek, MD
Konstantin Millerman, MD, MPH
Imre Noth, MD
Yuji Oba, MD
Ramakanth Pata, MD
Ravi Patel, MD
Sheldon Rao, MD
Robert Vender, MD
Otto Villa, MD
Alexander Zider, MD

Amritpal Anand, MD, MS, PT
Matthew Carroll, MD
Emilie Chan, MD
Krati Chauhan, MD, MPH
Bogdan Cherascu, MD
Vaidehi Chowdhary, MD
Nicole Davey-Ranasinghe, MD
Shailey Desai, MD
Nkechinyere Emejuaiwe, MD
Rawish Fatima, MBBS
Christine Jones, MD
Sonali Khandelwal, MD
Sian Yik Lim, MD
Ryan Massay, MD
J. Suzanne Moore, MD
Maryah Mansoor, MD
Rajandeep Paik, MD
Elizabeth Park, MD, MSc
Ahmad Ramahi, MD
Prabha Ranganathan, MD
Leslie Ranken, MD
Shrilekha Sairam, MD
Amanda Sammut, MD
Beth Scholz, MD
Ummara Shah, MD
Saika Sharmeen, DO
Bob Sun, MD
Jaren Trost, MD
Jason Weiner, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS

Ritwick Agrawal, MD, MS
Puneet Aulakh, MD, FAASM
Jamila Battle, MD
Radhika Breaden, MD
Susan Chang, MD
Jean Charchaflieh, MD, DrPH
Paul Chung, DO
Christopher Cielo, MD
Douglas Dawson, MD
Eric Geil, MD
Stella Hahn, MD
Novera Inam, MD
Ashesha Mechineni, MD, FACP
Dionne Morgan, MBBS, FCCP
Sreelatha Naik, MD
Nuzhat Un Nisa, MD
Hyung Park, MD
Salma Patel, MD, MPH
Luis Quintero, DO, MPH, FCCP
Shekar Raman, MD
Joseph Ramzy, MD
Alcibiades Rodriguez, MD
Gilbert Seda, MD, PhD
Christopher Williams, MD

Kapil Chopra, MD
Jessica Davis, MD, MSCR
Deborah Goldman, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Jennifer Haglund, MD
Harmit Kalia, DO
Avash Kalra, MD
Atoosa Rabiee, MD
Ian Schreibman, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FAASLD