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.
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Ari Cedars, MD
Seiji Ito, MD, FAAP, FACC
May Ling Mah, MD
Zachary Steinberg, MD
Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Richa Agarwal, MD
Monique Tanna, MD, FACC
Cardiovascular Disease
Scott Cameron, MD, PhD, RPVI, FACC, FSVM
Sung-Hae Cho, MD
Richard A. Hahn, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP
Ihab R. Hamzeh, MD, FACC
Ahmad Shihabi, MD, FACC, FASE
Nidhish Tiwari, MD, FACP, FACC, FASE
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology
Rishi K. Arora, MD
Mikhael El-Chami, MD
Mahmoud Houmsse, MD
James Ip, MD
Michael Lloyd, MD, FACC, FHRS
Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD
Critical Care Medicine
Paula G. Carvalho, MD
Stephen Derdak, DO
Younghoon Kwon, MD
Tashfeen Mahmood, MD
Ryan Maves, MD
Rahul Nanchal
Shashvat Sukhal, MD
Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism
Joumana Chaiban, MD, MBA, FACE
Ricardo Correa Marquez, MD, EdD, FACP, FACE, FACMQ, FAPCR
Stephanie A. Fish, MD
Sky Graybill, MD
Ugis Gruntmanis, MD
Neena Natt, MD
Susan Leanne Samson, MD, PhD, FRCPC, FACE
Gastroenterology
Divyanshoo Kohli, MD
Louis Y. Korman, MD
Phillip C. Lindholm, MD
Francisco C. Ramirez, MD
William M. Tierney, MD
Ravi Vachhani, MD
Atif Zaman, MD, MPH
Geriatric Medicine
Edmund H. Duthie, MD, AGSF
Catherine Bree Johnston, MD
Thomas Michels, MD, MPH
John Naumovski, MD
Hematology
Nicholas Burwick, MD
Kenneth S. Cohen, MD
Christin DeStefano, MD
Margaret Kasner, MD, MSCE
Ming Yeong Lim, MD
Hemant Murthy, MD
Sridhar Srinivasan, MD
Hospice & Palliative Medicine
Paul L. DeSandre, DO, FACEP, FAAHPM
Brian Hettrick, MD
Eve Makoff, MD
Steven Radwany, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Drew Rosielle, MD, FAAHPM
Beth E. Susi, MD, FACP, FAAHPM
Hospital Medicine
Audrey Corbett
Alexander Kinnaird, MD, SFHM
Paul Salama, MD
Nathan Sanderse, MD
Rahulkumar Singh, MD, FACP
Puneet Tuli, MD
David A. Wooldridge, MD, FACP
Infectious Disease
Reuben Arasaratnam, MD, MPH
Nitin M. Bhanot, MD, MPH
Dana Blyth, MD
Sonia Chimienti, MD
Anthony Leung, DO
Suman Radhakrishna, MD
Rohit Talwani, MD, FACP
Internal Medicine
Sudarshan Balla, MD
Matthew Hollon, MD, MPH, FACP
William A. Kormos, MD
Robert Lichtenberg, MD
Elexis McBee, DO, MPH
Rachel L. Ramirez, MD, FACP
Rohan Sen, MD, FACP
Terrence Shaneyfelt, MD, MPH, MET
Kristen Strasser, MD
Dario Torre, MD, PhD, MPH
Interventional Cardiology
George D. Bittar, MD
Prospero B. Gogo, MD
Louis Kohl, MD, FACC
Yaser Siraj, MD
Medical Oncology
Brian Boulmay, MD
Helen Chew, MD
Pankaj Gupta, MD
Elizabeth P. Henske, MD
Nina J. Karlin, MD
Ronald Maggiore, MD
Marco Ruiz, MD, MPH, FACP
Nephrology
Narothama Reddy Aeddula, MD, FACP, FASN, FNKF
Krishna Baradhi, MD
Adam Berliner, MD
Tejas Desai, MD
Leah Haseley, MD
Edward Kim, MD, MPH, MHS
Edgar V. Lerma, MD
Raimund Pichler, MD
C. John Sperati, MD, MHS
Pulmonary Disease
Ali Ataya, MD
Nitin Bhatt, MD
Sarah Lyon, MD
Ogugua Obi, MD, MPH, MSc
Molly Osborne, MD, PhD
Kanta Velamuri, MD
James "Mac" Walter, MD
Rheumatology
Benedict Chou, MD
Nicole Davey-Ranasinghe, MD, FACP, FACR, RhMSUS
Shailey Desai, MD
W. Neal Roberts, Jr., MD
Pascale Schwab, MD
Karen Yeter, MD
Sleep Medicine
Anne May, MD
Salma Patel, MD, MPH
Matthew Patterson, MD
Mari Viola Saltzman, DO, FAASM
Manisha Witmans, MD
Transplant Hepatology
Curtis K. Argo, MD
Ranjeeta R. Bahirwani, MD
Vandana Khungar, MD, MSc
Ayman A. Koteish, MD
Philip Rosenthal, MD
Ian Schreibman, MD, FACG, AGAF, FACP
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