Chicago, IL, February 11, 2025: The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is pleased to announce the election of Judith Green McKenzie, MD, MPH, FRCP, FACP, FACPM, FACOEM, as a Director on the Board representing the specialty of Occupational and Environmental Medicine.

Dr. McKenzie maintains ABPM certification in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. She is a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM), the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), the American College of Physicians, and the Royal College of Physicians.

Dr. McKenzie is an active Occupational and Environmental Medicine practitioner, currently serving as Medical Officer for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Office of Occupational Medicine and Nursing. She is also a Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, where she previously directed the Occupational and Environmental Medicine residency.

Dr. McKenzie has an extensive history of service to both ABPM and other national preventive medicine organizations, particularly in education and assessment. She has been a valued member of ABPM’s Occupational and Environmental Medicine initial certification question-writing subcommittee from 2008 through 2015; currently, she serves on ABPM’s longitudinal assessment program subcommittee for the same specialty. From 2020 through 2023, Dr. McKenzie chaired the ACGME Review Committee for Preventive Medicine, the organization which sets preventive medicine residency requirements nationwide. She has also supported ACOEM in a variety of roles, including as a member of its Occupational and Environmental Medicine Core Competencies Taskforce.

As “a practicing Occupational and Environmental Medicine (OEM) physician since fellowship at Johns Hopkins segueing from board-certified internal medicine practice, the depth and breadth of my dual training has enabled me to research, comprehend, analyze, write, and teach complex OEM issues,” said Dr. McKenzie. “I believe my clear demonstrated leadership, achievements, commitment, passion, and broad-based experience [will] provide meaningful value. It [will] be an honor to continue contributing through ABPM Board membership.”

Dr. McKenzie will begin her initial three-year term immediately following the interim Board of Directors meeting in August 2025.

ABPM is an ABMS Member Board. Founded in 1948, ABPM works with the ABMS in the development of standards for the ongoing assessment and certification of over 12,000 physicians certified by ABPM in the specialties of Aerospace Medicine, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine; and in the specialties of Addiction Medicine; Clinical Informatics; Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management; Medical Toxicology; and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.