Chicago, IL, May 5, 2021: The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is seeking nominations of highly qualified leaders to fill a Public Health and General Preventive Medicine Director position on its Board of Directors. Nominees must hold current ABPM certification in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine. The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2021. ABPM will select the new Director at its January 2022 meeting.

Nominations must be emailed to ABPM’s Executive Director, Christopher J. Ondrula, JD, at [email protected]. Nominations should include the nominee’s CV and a personal statement of interest from the nominee (maximum of 250 words).

The following criteria should be considered in nomination(s):

1. Nominees must be physicians holding a currently active, valid and unrestricted license to practice medicine in all states, US territories or Canadian Provinces in which the physician is license to practice medicine.
2. Nominees must be Certified by the ABPM in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine.
3. Nominees must be engaged in substantially full-time practice, teaching, or research in Public Health and General Preventive Medicine in the United States. Nominees have demonstrated achievement and the potential for continuing contributions to the field of preventive medicine. The ideal Nominee has experience serving on a residency review committee and/or at least one of the ABPM’s initial certification examination item-writing subcommittees.
4. Nominees will, as Board members, be expected to continue to be active in preventive medicine practice, teaching, or research for the duration of their service on the Board. Board members serve an initial three-year term and may, subject to meeting certain objective criteria, be reelected twice for a total tenure not to exceed nine years.
5. The Nominees must be individuals who are able to participate constructively and productively in group settings, have appropriate academic and educational experience, have worked on or be able to participate in Board examination questions preparation activities, have demonstrated leadership capabilities in preventive medicine, and be willing to serve and accept work responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time by the Board.
6. The Board meets in-person at least twice annually, usually for a total of six to eight days, and throughout the year routinely conducts business through electronic means. Accordingly, Nominees must have sufficient flexibility to enable them to actively participate and engage with the Board and the ABPM staff as may be required during the individual’s tenure on the Board.

The ABPM is a Member Board of the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). 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.