February 1, 2025

Meet ABIM Governance: Desirée A. H. Walker

Desirée A. H. Walker is the President of the Young Survival Coalition Board of Directors and Co-Chair of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Patient and Family Advisory Council. Diagnosed with breast cancer at 38 and again at 47, Ms. Walker is a dedicated patient and research advocate, health educator and health equity activist. She […]

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December 16, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Christina Lovato

Christina M. Lovato, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Endocrinology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center and Sandoval Regional Medical Center, Program Director for the UNM Endocrinology Fellowship Program and Co-Director for the Medical Specialties Clinics at UNM. She practices general endocrinology with a particular focus in the […]

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November 25, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Carolyn Leftkowits

Carolyn Leftkowits, MD, MPH, MS, is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, jointly appointed in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, and the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Palliative Medicine. She serves as the Vice Chair of Education for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology […]

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November 21, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Ecler Jaqua

Ecler Jaqua, MD, MBA, FAAFP, AGSF, FACLM, DipABOM, AAHIVS, is an Associate Professor of Family and Geriatric Medicine and the Associate Program Director of the Loma Linda University Family Medicine Residency. She holds certifications by the American Board of Family Medicine (a member board of the American Board of Medical Specialties), the American Board of […]

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November 15, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Erin Ramelb

Erin Ramelb, MD, is a board certified internist practicing hospital medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine. She is a devoted clinician-educator and teaches within all phases of the College of Medicine curriculum as a course co-director for problem-based learning (PBL), the coordinator for the […]

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November 13, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Sandra Kane-Gill

Sandra Kane-Gill, Pharm.D., MSc, FCCP, FCCM, is a tenured professor and Interim Chair of Pharmacy and Therapeutics at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, and a critical care medication safety pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Her research focuses on effective approaches for the prevention, detection and […]

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November 5, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Catherine McCall

Catherine McCall, MD, is a sleep medicine physician at VA Puget Sound Health Care Center, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. She is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology (ABPN) in […]

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October 9, 2024

Item-Writer Spotlight: Puneet Aulakh, MD, FAASM

ABIM is proud to spotlight members of the Item-Writing Task Forces, which are responsible for writing all of the content for assessments in each discipline of internal medicine. Learn more about the Item-Writing Task Forces and how ABIM creates assessment questions on the ABIM Blog. If you are interested in applying to serve as an Item-Writer, view current openings. […]

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September 25, 2024

Meet ABIM Governance: Dr. Heather Heiman

Heather L. Heiman, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. She serves as Interim Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education and maintains an outpatient practice within the Academic Internal Medicine division. She is also chair of the ABIM Internal Medicine Longitudinal Knowledge Assessment (LKA®) […]

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