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

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

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

Karima Addetia, MD
Bhaskar Arora, MD
Brian Barr, MD 
Sanjay Bindra, MD
Marinos Charalambous, MD
Vijay Divakaran, MD
Jorge Fernandez, MD
Hilton Franqui-Rivera, MD
David Fries, MD, FACC
Mark Garcia, MD
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
Bharat Kantharia, MD
Pedram Kazemian, MD
Khaldia Khaled, MD
Anthony Klappa, MD
Andy Lee, MD
Thomas McGarry, MD
Ali Morshedi-Meibodi, MD
Rohit Moudgil, MD
Ryan Oeltgen, MD
Amole Ojo, MD
Julio Panza, MD
Daniel Pauly, MD, PhD
Matthew Pierce, MD
Amresh Raina, MD, Mentor
Mohammed Ruzieh, MD
Michael Sills, MD
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
Sumeet Chhabra, MD
Nils Guttenplan, MD
Sameer Jamal, MD
Yosef Kahn, MD
Rahul Kumar, MD
Karthik Ramaswamy, MD
Michael Rosenberg, 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
Christopher Dunatov, MD
Padmaraj Duvvuri, MD
Muhammad Ehtesham, MD
Michael Gabrilovich, MD, PhD, FCCP
Shyam Kiran Gandam Venkata, MD
Megan Gooch, MD
Alexandra Gordon, MD
Sameer Khanijo, MD
Danai Khemasuwan, MD, MBA
Harish Kinni, MD
Mutsumi Kioka, MD
Jennifer LaRosa, MD, FCCM, FCCP
Tilottama Majumdar, MD, MBA, FCCP
Devanshi Mehta, MD
Taro Minami, MD, FACP, FCCP
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, Mentor
Harikrashna Bhatt, MD
Kamal Bhusal, MD
Mario Chan, MD
Ricardo Correa, MD, EsD
Leonor Corsino, MD, MHS
Dimpi Desai, MD
Ahmed Elsherif, MD
Ranjodh Gill, MD
Zeina Habib, MD, MPH
Kendal L. Hamann, MD, Mentor
Elizabeth Helfer, MD
Elizabeth Holt, MD, PhD
Kristen Hyland, MD MHS
Ngaruiya Kariuki, MD, Mentor
Pinky Kurani, 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
Aiman Riaz, MD
Prasanna Santhana, MD
Bridget Sinnott, MD
Kyaw Soe, MD
Adeyinka Taiwo, MD
Steven Taylor, MD
Rokshana Thanadar, MD, FACE
Tracy Tylee, MD
Tom Vaughan, MD
Tarunya Vedere, MD
Terri Washington, MD, FACE
Sandra Williams, MD
Abid Yaqub, MD, FACE, FACP
Kevin Yuen, MD

Nazneen Ahmed, MD
Sumant Arora, MD
Jay Babich, MD
William Bauer, MD
Parth Bharill, MD
Ishfaq Bhat, MD
Wissam Bleibel, MD
Steven Carpenter, MD
Subhankar Chakraborty, MD
Jeffery Crespin, MD
Justin Crocker, MD
William Ergen, MD
Fadi Francis, MD
Marc Georgi, MD
Philip Gilman, MD
Ekta Gupta, MD
Emery Lin, MD
Stuart Lubinski, MD
Jose Martin-Ortiz, MD
John Mengshol, MD
Arpan Mohanty, MD
Vikas Pabby, MD
Seema Patil, MD
Corina Serer, MD
Mandeep Singh, MD
Rohit Singhania, MD
Arun Srivatsa, MD
Rashid Syed, MD
Nathan Tofteland, MD
David Zink, MD

Sik Ang, MD
Murray Batt, MD
Rayomand Bengali, MD
Grace Chen, MD
Huai Cheng, MD, MPH
Kimberly Dixon, MD
Priyanka Duggal, MD
Edmund Duthie, MD
Edet Elensi, MD
Paula Folger, MD
Tyson Garfield, DO
Rani Gundavarapu, MD
Abid Iraqi, MD
Mahmoud Ismail, MBBCh
Robert Jayes, MD, FACP
Herbert Keating, MD
Sukhjinder Khera, MD
Luke Kim, MD, MEd
Keiko Kimura, MD
Jeffrey Kuch, MD
Chandrika Kumar, MD
Tracy Lippard, MD, Mentor
Lawrence Ma, MD
Jonathan Maks, MD, FACP
Francisco Mercado, MD
Swarnalatha Meyyazhagan, 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

Mouhamed Abou-Ismail, MD
Florence Arnold, MD
Bruno Bastos, MD
Claudio Brunstein, MD, PhD
Vince Cataldo, MD, Mentor
Richard Chang, MD
Jason Chen, MD
Joseph Cioccio, MD
Ajoy Dias, MD
Ogechukwu Egini, MD
Victoria Forbes, MD
Radhika Gangaraju, MD
Rakesh Gaur, MD
Sandeep Grewal, MD
Rajinder Grover, MD
Hussein Hamad, MD
John Hancock, MD
Vallathucherry Harish, MD
Jesus Hermosillo Rodriguez, MD
Anthony Hunter, MD
Atif Hussein, MD, FACP, MMM
Joshua Kra, MD
Rachel Kruspe, MD
Hanh Mai, DO
Peter Maslak, MD
Rakesh Mehta, MD
Gabrielle Meyers, MD
Thein Oo, MD
Ashok Pai, MD
Shinoj Pattali Jayavalsan, MD
Jenny Petkova, MD
Gayathri Ravi, MD
Shahzad Raza, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD
Ayman Saad, MD
Ethan Schram, MD
Roberto Sica, MD
Benjamin Tomlinson, MD
Cherian Verghese, MD, MPH

Kathleen Akgun, MD, MS
Lawrence Berk, MD, PhD
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
Jennifer Hanrahan, MD
Anna Kaltsas, MD, MS
Martin Kaminski, MD
Nabeela Khan, MD
Justin Kim, MD
Rakhi Kohli, MD
Swapnil Lanjewar, MD
Miguel Madariaga, MD, MSc
Benjamin Miko, MD, Mentor
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
Paschalis Vergidis, MD
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
Nitesh Ainani, MD, FACC, RPVI
Hania Al-Shahrouri, MD
Benedict Amalraj, MD
Suhaib Andrabi, MD, FASN
Bathmapriya Balakrishnan, BMedSci, BMBS, FCCP
Jyothsna Bandaru, MD
Bruce Berenson, MD
Nathan Cutler, MD
Arber Frakulli, MD
Fernando Fuentes, MD, FACP
Monica Grafals, MD, MPH, MBA
John Hall, MD
Jared Honigman, MD
Esther Hui, MD
Josune Iglesias, MD, FACP
Scott Janus, MD
Christopher Jenks, MD
Julie Joseph, MD, MPH, MBA
William Kormos, MD
Patrick Kosciuk, MD
Vladimir Lytchakov, MD
Mary Mallappallil, MD
Ghania Masri, MD
Patrick Michael, MD
Mrinmayee Naik, MD
Natalija Odanovic, MD
Andrew Ofosu, MD, MPH
Jason Ojeda, MD
Venu Pararath Gopalakrishnan, MD
Ashesh Patel, MD, FACP
Neha Patel, MD
Kristopher Pfirman, DO
Maria Posadas Salas, MD
Akuffo Quarde, MD
Ateeq Rehman, MD
Tom Rifai, MD
Enrique Rincon, MD
Carlos Rosario, MD
Bilal Samhouri, MD
Rohan Sen, MD, FACP, Mentor
Ahmed Shoreibah, MD, Mentor
Prathap Simhadri, MD, MPH, FASN
Cristian Speil, MD
Jennifer Stichman, MD
Muhammad Tahir, MD
Claudia Thomas, MD
Vivekanand Tiwari, MD
Brian Tran, MD
Meiyappan Udayappan, MD
Venkata Vedantam, MD

Dipesh Bista, 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
Sarah Hubbell, MD
Sonali Iyer, MD
Rohit Jain, MD
Nayef Kazzaz, MD
Diana Khalil, MD
Vinod Khatri, MD
Ethan Kuperman, MD
Candice Mateja, MD
Joseph Ng, MD
Nathaniel Parker, MD
Maulikkumar Patel, MD
Dimple Patel, MD
Iqbal Ratnani, MD
Ateeq Rehman, MD
Joseph Rhatigan, MD
Dhaval Save, MD
Raj Sehgal, MD
Bright Thilagar, MD
Braghadheeswar Thyagarajan, MD
Prashanth Reddy Yella, MD

Mohammad Al Madani, MD, FACC, FSCAI
Derar Albashaireh, MD
Konstantinos Boudoulas, MD
Gene Chang, MD
Calvin Choi, MD
Michael Cryer, MD
Pranab Das, MD
Saleh El Dassouki, MD
Ricardo Escarcega Alarcon, MD
Sandeep Hindupur, MD
Anand Irimpen, MD
Yumiko Kanei, MD
Muhammad Khan, MD, MBA, FAAFP, FHM
Nicholas Lembo, MD
Spencer Liu, MD
Moses Mathur, MD
Carlos Mena Hurtado, 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

Isam Abdel-Karim, MD, MSCI, MHA
Mohammad Ali, MD
Avan Armaghani, MD
Ambuga Badari, MD
Madhuri Bajaj, MD
Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD
Ivan Bustillo Chams, MD
Steven Cohen, MD
Dan Costin, MD
Ajay Dar, MD
Jennifer Eatrides, MD
Srilata Gundala, MD
Shilpi Gupta, MBBS, MD
Philip Haddad, MD
Richard Hall, MD, MS
Glennh Hanna, MD
Sanjay Jain, MD
Zhaohui Jin, MD
Hyunseok Kang, MD
Varinder Kaur, MD, FACP
Venu Konala, MD
Lynn Kong, MD
Chainarong Limvarapuss, MD
Vincent Ma, MD
Wen Wee Ma, MBBS
Mehdi Moezi, MD, FACP
Daniel Morgensztern, MD
Giancarlo Moscol, MD
Suchita Pakkala, MD
Chong-Xian Pan, MD
Kathy Pan, MD
Dean Park, MD
Mehool Patel, MD, FACP, MBA
David Portnoy, MD, FACP
Naga Raja, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD, MPH, FACP
Savitri Skandan, MD
Samira Syed, MD
Scott Tetreault, MD
Nazim Turhal, MD, MACP
Dan Zuckerman, MD, FASCO

Gaurav Agarwal MD, MSPH
James Alstott, MD
Emmy Bell, MD
Daniel Castro Pereira MD, FASN 
Devasmita Choudhury, MD
Kevin A. Curran, 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
Hazem Kakaji, MD
Hania Kassem, MD
Patricia Khalil, MD
Sana Khan MD
Jeffrey A. Klein, MD
Lavanya Kodali MD
Adetoye Lufadeju, MD
Erik Lum, MD
Ahmad Bilal Malik, MD
Jair Munoz Mendoza, MD
Franco Musio, MD
Janis Orlowski, MD, MACP
Bret Pasiuk, MD
Amishi Patel, DO
Paul Pronovost, MD
Subodh Saggi, MD
Norman WG Seay, MD
Shani Shastri MD, MS, MPH
Prabhat Singh MD
Hani Wadei MD
Robert D Zenenberg, DO, FACP

Oriade Adeoye, MD, MPH, FACP
Mohammed Al Faiyumi, MD
Gopal Allada, MD
Dawn Alleyne, MD
Sammar Alsunaid, MD
Puneet Aulakh, MD
Kavitha Bagavathy, MD
Steven Cattapan, MD
Bahman Chavoshan, 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
Ogugua Obi, MD, MPH, MSc
Ramakanth Pata, MD
Ravi Patel, MD
Michael Powers, MD
Rakesh Sinha, MD
Rakeshkumar Subramanian, 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
Indira Hadley, MD
Christine Jones, MD
Sonali Khandelwal, MD
Ramesh Kumar, MD
Sian Yik Lim, MD
Ryan Massay, MD
J. Suzanne Moore, MD
Luc Nguyen, MD
Rajandeep Paik, MD
Ahmad Ramahi, MD
Prabha Ranganathan, MD
Leslie Ranken, MD
Shrilekha Sairam, MD
Amanda Sammut, MD
Beth Scholz, MD
Ummara Shah, MD
Mohammad Shakir, MD
Bob Sun, MD
Jaren Trost, MD
Jason Weiner, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS

Ritwick Agrawal, MD, MS
Puneet Aulakh, MD, FAASM
Radhika Breaden, MD
Susan Chang, MD
Jean Charchaflieh, MD, DrPH
Christopher Cielo, MD
Douglas Dawson, MD
Eric Geil, MD
Stella Hahn, MD
Dionne Morgan, MBBS, FCCP
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
Lauren Tobias, MD
Jaime Torres, MD
Katie Tran, MD
Christopher Williams, MD

Jawad Ahmad, MD
Kapil Chopra, MD
Deborah Goldman, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Meagan Gray, MD
Avash Kalra, MD
Ian Schreibman, MD, AGAF, FACG, FACP, FAASLD