ABIM Announces Eric J. Warm, MD, MACP, as Vice President for Research Strategy
Philadelphia, September 9, 2025 – The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) announced today that Eric J. Warm, MD, MACP, has been appointed Vice President for Research Strategy, effective September 1, 2025. Dr. Warm is the Richard W. & Sue P. Vilter Professor of Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, where he has also served as director of the Categorical Internal Medicine Residency since 2009. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Warm will be the first to hold this position at ABIM. He will lead a multidisciplinary team in developing a research program that will investigate insights which could translate into evidence-based tools and processes to enhance physician assessment, better understand the link between assessment and learning, explore scalable and feasible assessments of competencies other than medical knowledge, and, ultimately, enhance the quality of patient care by board certified physicians.
“I seek to explore how we can create meaningful, scalable assessment and feedback systems that not only measure competence but also improve care across contexts,” says Dr. Warm.
He will simultaneously maintain his post at the University of Cincinnati, where he is also the Vice Chair for Graduate Medical Education. Dr. Warm is a founding member of the RADICAL Lab (Research in Assessment Designed to Improve Care and Learning), a University of Cincinnati collaborative exploring the best ways to collect assessment information from multiple sources, both for learning and of learning, how to share this feedback effectively with learners and how to use it to improve performance in both education and care. At its core, the work seeks to strengthen the link between educational outcomes and patient care outcomes. Dr. Warm also collaborates with the 2-Sigma Lab pursuing research in precision education and artificial intelligence.
As Vice President for Research Strategy, Dr. Warm will lead research that examines how assessment can measure performance and how that information can be used to help physicians learn and improve patient care.
Recent research related to continuing certification includes a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine showing that hospitalized patients treated by physicians who demonstrated more medical knowledge and judgment through higher scores on ABIM’s Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA®) were less likely to die within seven days of admission or be readmitted within seven days of discharge.
Furman S. McDonald, MD, MPH, said, “We are so excited to have a physician educator and investigator of Dr. Warm’s caliber joining the ABIM Senior Executive Team to help identify additional opportunities to advance ABIM’s mission by investigating questions that are important to bringing evidence and innovation to assessing all the core physician competencies.”
See Dr. Warm’s full bibliography.
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