Chicago, IL, February 9, 2022: The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is pleased to announce the election of Jeffrey M. Hoffman, MD, FAMIA, to fill the position of Clinical Informatics Sub-board Chair that will become vacant later this year.

Dr. Hoffman is the Chief Medical Information Officer at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Division Chief of Clinical Informatics at the Ohio State University College of Medicine. Dr. Hoffman has also served on the Item-Writing Subcommittee for the ABPM’s Clinical Informatics Longitudinal Assessment Program (LAP) Pilot. Notably, Dr. Hoffman was a member of the first cohort of physicians to become board certified by ABPM in Clinical Informatics in 2014. He also developed one of the first ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowships where he currently serves as Program Director.

“I am deeply humbled by the Board’s decision and wholeheartedly accept the position of Sub-board Chair for Clinical Informatics,” Dr. Hoffman said. “I am excited at this opportunity to continue the great work done by Dr. [Adi] Gundlapalli and those that served in this role before him.”

Wendy E. Braund, MD, MPH, MSEd, FACPM, lauded the Board’s decision. “I, along with the other members of the Board of Directors, are excited to work with Dr. Hoffman, especially as we tackle big projects like developing a final longitudinal assessment program for both Clinical Informatics and the other ABPM Specialties and Subspecialties, and launching a Continuing Certification Program,” she said. “I am confident that Dr. Hoffman’s remarkable experience and proven skills will be invaluable in ABPM’s future success in these endeavors.”

Dr. Hoffman will begin his initial two-year term at the conclusion of the ABPM’s 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.