Chicago, IL, May 5, 2021: The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) is seeking nominations of highly qualified leaders to fill the position of Clinical Informatics Sub-Board Chair which will become vacant in August 2022. Nominees must hold current ABPM certification in Clinical Informatics. The deadline for nominations July 31, 2021. ABPM will select the Clinical Informatics Sub-Board Chair 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 Certified by the ABPM in Clinical Informatics and hold 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.
2. Nominees should have demonstrated achievement and the potential for continuing contribution to the field of Clinical Informatics. The ideal nominee will have had experience serving on a residency review committee and/or at least one of the ABPM’s initial certification examination item writing subcommittees.
3. 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, examination question preparation activities; have demonstrated leadership capabilities in Clinical Informatics and be willing to serve and accept work responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time by the ABPM’s Board of Directors.
4. The Sub-Board Chair attends the ABPM Board of Directors meetings, including at least two in-person meetings per year, usually for a total of six to eight days; and participates in other business the Board routinely conducts via electronic means throughout the year. 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 as the Sub-Board Chair.

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.