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    The American Board of Preventive Medicine Elects a New Director to its Board

    Chicago, IL, February 9, 2022: The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is pleased to announce the election of Karen R. Studer, MD, MBA, MPH, FACPM as a Director on the Board. Dr. Studer will represent the Specialty of Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.

    Dr. Studer is the Program Director for the Preventive Medicine Residency and an Assistant Professor at the Schools of Public Health and Medicine at Loma Linda University in California. She is also an attending physician at SAC Health, a Federally Qualified Health Center where she began a women’s lifestyle medicine clinic. Dr. Studer has served on the Public Health and General Preventive Medicine exam item-writing subcommittee since 2016.

    “Preventive Medicine is a unique field with a wide scope of practice. Ensuring the integrity of our Specialty is extremely important to me, as a practitioner and program director of a residency program,” said Dr. Studer. “However, this is a difficult task, especially as we move away from high stakes exams as part of our maintenance of certification. I would be honored to continue to play a role in defining how we ensure preventive medicine physicians keep up-to-date in all aspects of our field.”

    “Both myself and my colleagues on ABPM’s Board of Directors are excited to welcome Dr. Studer to the Board,” said Wendy E. Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd, FACPM. “With her skills, experience, and enthusiasm, Dr. Studer will be a great asset to the Board, especially as move forward with important initiatives like Continuing Certification and longitudinal assessment.”

    Dr. Studer’s term will begin her initial three-year term immediately following the Interim Board of Directors Meeting in August 2022.

    The 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 the ABPM in the specialties of Aerospace Medicine, Occupational Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine; and in the subspecialties of Addiction Medicine, Clinical Informatics, Medical Toxicology, and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.