Chicago, IL, April 12, 2024: The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is seeking nominations of highly qualified leaders to fill an Occupational and Environmental Medicine Director position on its Board of Directors.

The deadline for nominations is July 31, 2024. ABPM will select the new Director at its January 2025 Board of Directors meeting.

Nominations must be directed to ABPM’s CEO, Christopher J. Ondrula, JD, by email to [email protected]. Nominations should include the nominee’s CV and personal statement of interest (maximum of 250 words).

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

• 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 licensed to practice medicine.
• Nominees must be certified by the ABPM in Occupational and Environmental Medicine.
• Nominees for the Occupational and Environmental Medicine position must be engaged in substantially full-time practice, teaching, or research in Occupational and Environmental Medicine in the United States. Nominees for this position must have demonstrated achievement of and potential for continuing contributions to the field of preventive medicine. The ideal nominee has experience serving on an ACGME review committee and/or at least one of the ABPM’s initial certification examination item-writing subcommittees.
• 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.
• The nominees must be able and willing to:
  • Participate constructively and productively in group settings and
  • Accept work responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time by the Board.
• Additionally, nominees must:
  • Have appropriate academic and educational experience,
  • Have worked on or be able to participate in Board examination question-preparation activities, and
  • Possess demonstrated leadership capabilities in preventive medicine.
• The Board meets in-person at least twice annually, usually for a total of six to eight days, and throughout the year the Board routinely conducts business through electronic means. Accordingly, nominees must have sufficient flexibility to actively participate in and engage with the Board and ABPM staff as may be required during a Director’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 and Environmental Medicine, and Public Health and General Preventive Medicine, and in the subspecialties of Addiction Medicine; Clinical Informatics; Health Care Administration, Leadership, and Management; Medical Toxicology; and Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine.