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Stephen H. Miller, MD, MPH
John McK. Mitchell, MD
Robert A. Moore, MD
Lloyd B. Morgan
Benson S. Munger, PhD
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David L. Nahrwold, MD
William D. North, Esq
John C. Nunemaker, MD, FACP
Margaret E. O’Kane, MHS
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Thomas (Tim) K. Oliver Jr, MD
Gerard Piel
Nicholas Pisacano, MD
Dennis D. Pointer, PhD |
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Stephen H. Miller, MD, MPH
ABMS Executive Vice President/ ABMS President and CEO 1998-2007
ABMS Distinguished Service Award Recipient 2008
Through his deep belief in the importance of ABMS in setting standards for quality physician practice, Dr. Miller was a tireless advocate of ABMS and the importance of the organization for the public good.
Without question, the first and foremost of his accomplishments during his leadership has been overseeing the implementation of ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (ABMS MOC®) programs among the 24 member boards. He has also developed closer and more productive relationships with the Associate Members of ABMS and, with ACGME, developed a very successful series of joint conferences that focused on the competencies which are part of ABMS MOC. A very transforming aspect of Dr. Miller’s leadership was the organizational restructuring of ABMS. He also introduced more modern practices at ABMS with regard to employment policies, audit procedures, accounting and legal advising and launched an update of the information technology and database infrastructure.
Dr. Miller is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University’s Medical School in Chicago. As a clinician, medical educator and Past President of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, Dr. Miller has been active in specialty medicine leadership for more than 30 years and an advocate for ongoing physician education and training activities.
Prior to joining ABMS, Dr. Miller was on staff at Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, California where he practiced in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. His professional career includes appointments as the Assistant Professor of Surgery and Head of Plastic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, and Professor of Surgery at Penn State School of Medicine in Hershey, Pennsylvania. In 1979, he was appointed Professor of Surgery and Chief of Plastic Surgery at the Oregon Health Sciences University where he established the first Department of Plastic Surgery and the first Plastic Surgery residency.
He also has a personal interest in international medicine. He served with the African Medical and Research Foundation - Flying Doctors for a year in Kenya and was a Visiting Professor in several countries including Malaysia, Mexico and Niger.
Dr. Miller received a Master’s degree in public health from the Graduate School of Public Health of San Diego State University. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine. Dr. Miller is certified by the American Board of Surgery as well as the American Board of Plastic Surgery, and was recertified by the latter.
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John McK. Mitchell, MD (1897-1968)
7th ABMS President 1956-1957
A U.S. Army veteran of both World War I and II, Dr. Mitchell earned the rank of Colonel. His last deployment was with the University of Pennsylvania 20th Hospital Unit in Assam Province in northern India. He then returned home to Pennsylvania where he became Associate Director of Pediatric Education of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ National Survey of Pediatric Education. This three-year study, co-sponsored by the Children’s Bureau and the U.S. Department of Health. Dr. Mitchell visited more than 150 accredited hospitals in the United States and evaluated their pediatric curriculum, teaching program and facilities. The report of this survey, published in 1949 by the Commonwealth Foundation, had a profound effect on pediatric teaching and training.
Shortly after that he became Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the American Board of Pediatrics, a position he held for 15 years (1952-1967). During his tenure, the number of candidates continued to escalate.
Dr. Mitchell was also president of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Mitchell earned his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics.
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Robert A. Moore, MD
6th ABMS President 1953-55
At the time of his appointment with ABMS, Dr. Moore was Dean of the Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
Lloyd B. Morgan
ABMS Public Member, 2001-2010
Mr. Morgan is a CPA who has been a Partner in Arthur Andersen since 1975. He has had an international career consulting on managed care and insurance issues and was a member of the team which authored “The Future of Healthcare Delphi” studies in 1984, 1987 and 1991.
Mr. Morgan is active in numerous civic organizations in the Chicago area and has served as an officer for many organizations. He has been a member of the Kellogg School of Business Advisory Board since 1995.
Mr. Morgan is a graduate of Northwestern University with an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
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Benson S. Munger, PhD
ABMS Distinguished Service Award Recipient 2000
Dr. Munger served as the first Executive Director of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM), a position he held until his retirement in 1999. He was instrumental in the development of the board and its acceptance as a conjoint board in 1979. He worked tirelessly and vigorously to gain recognition for the ABEM as an independent board (which was granted in 1989). Under his leadership and guidance three subspecialty certificates were developed and approved: Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Medical Toxicology.
In addition to his dedicated service to the board, Dr. Munger generously shared his expertise with other ABMS Member Boards as a consultant. He served as a member and Chairman of the Committee of Board Executives (COBEX). During his tenure as Chairman of COBEX, the committee was expanded to include the CEO of each Member Board and the name of the committee was changed to Committee of Board Representatives and Executives (COBRE).
Dr. Munger served as the first Chairman of the restructured committee.
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David L. Nahrwold, MD
29th ABMS President 2002-2003
First Derrick T. Vail Award Recipient 2007
Dr. Narhwold has had a long history with ABMS, holding several leadership positions, the most notable being his chairing the ABMS Task Force on Competence, which developed the ABMS Maintenance of Certification® (ABMS MOC®) program. He has made extraordinary contributions to medical specialty education and certification and his work is legendary as the “Father” of ABMS MOC.
Dr. Nahrwold is Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of The Joint Commission and a member of the board of its subsidiary, Joint Commission Resources. He is also Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University.
Through his leadership in establishing the competency-oriented direction for ABMS and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), he has made outstanding contributions to the field of evaluation in medicine. He has impacted the state of assessment and evaluation in medical education and the quality of medical evaluation at an organizational level and beyond. Dr. Nahrwold’s leadership role in the establishment of the competencies is clearly recognized and has had a tremendous impact on graduate medical education as well as undergraduate medical education and specialty certification.
Dr. Nahrwold was a Director and Chairman of the American Board of Surgery (ABS). He was also president of the Chicago Surgical Society, the Central Surgical Association and its Foundation, the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract and the North American Chapter of the International Society for Digestive Surgery. He was a member of ACGME and served on its Executive Committee. And he has served on the editorial boards of nine periodicals and as Editor Emeritus of the Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques. For 15 years, Dr. Nahrwold was the Loyal and Edith Davis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery at Northwestern University and subsequently, President and CEO of Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, Northwestern’s faculty group practice. In 1999 and 2000 he was Interim Director of the American College of Surgeons.
Dr. Nahrwold received Honorary Fellowship in the Philippine College of Surgeons and was awarded the Distinguished Service Award of the American College of Surgeons. In 2003 he received the prestigious John P. Hubbard Award of the National Board of Medical Examiners for his work in changing the paradigm of physician evaluation.
Dr. Nahrwold received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Indiana University, where he also completed residency training in General and Cardiothoracic Surgery. This was followed by a research fellowship in Gastrointestinal Physiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and service in the U.S. Army as a surgeon in Vietnam in 1966-67. A Gastrointestinal Surgeon, his clinical and basic research interests are in the gastrointestinal field, about which he has written extensively. Dr. Nahrwold is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
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William D. North, Esq
ABMS Distinguished Service Award Recipient 2003
Mr. North has an impressive record of service to a wide variety of non-profit and community organizations. His unyielding commitment to the public good and the board certification movement has made him a keystone of ABMS. Over the years, Mr. North has advised ABMS and the Member Boards on many aspects of certification. His extensive knowledge of, and experience with, numerous trade and not-for-profit associations, corporate law, consumer protection, and First Amendment issues has proved invaluable to ABMS and its Member Boards.
When ABMS relocated to Evanston, Illinois in 1971, Mr. North, a Partner at the firm of Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago, was hired as general counsel. While much of his advice in the 1970s concerned anti-trust issues, he began the 1980’s advising ABMS on contract guidelines with other organizations for use of the ABMS database and in negotiating license agreements with outside vendors. He helped immeasurably in developing the policies and guidelines for the Maintenance of Certification initiative.
He provided the rapidly growing organization with advice on some extremely complex issues regarding the board certification movement until 1977 when he became Executive Vice President and CEO of the National Association of Realtors. Upon retirement from the National Association of Realtors, Mr. North was persuaded to provide services as special counsel for ABMS.
In addition to his direct service to the ABMS organization, Mr. North has served as counsel for the American Board of Family Medicine, the American Board of Nuclear Medicine, the American Board of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and the American Board of Preventive Medicine. He has also served as a Public Member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and on the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) Board of Trustees.
Mr. North is a graduate of the University of Illinois and Harvard Law School.
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John C. Nunemaker, MD, FACP (1910-2000)
ABMS Executive Director 1970-1976
Dr. Nunemaker was the first full-time Executive Director of ABMS. He assumed his official position at ABMS as the organization was reorganizing and had just changed its name from the Advisory Board of Medical Specialties to the present day American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS). Uniquely, he also served as the Executive Vice President of the National Resident Matching Program during the same period.
Dr. Nunemaker was an instructor in medicine at the University Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. From 1941 to 1942 he served as Commanding Officer of the 56th Station Hospital in Cairo, Egypt during World War II. From 1946 to 1952 he was the Chief of Medical Service at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Salt Lake City. He then served as director of the Education Service, Department of Medicine and Surgery, at the Veterans Administration in Washington until 1958. From that time until the time of his appointment with ABMS, Dr. Nunemaker had been associated with the American Medical Association (AMA) and last served as its Director of the Department of Graduate Medical Education in the Division of Medical Education.
Dr. Nunemaker completed his medical degree at the Harvard Medical School in 1937. He had his early medical training at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston and also at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Nunemaker was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and specialized in Rheumatology.
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Margaret E. O’Kane, MHS
ABMS Public Member, 2006 - present
Since 1990, Ms. O’Kane has served as President of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), an independent, non-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of healthcare everywhere. Under her leadership, NCQA has developed broad support among the employer and health plan communities; today many Fortune 100 companies will only do business with NCQA Accredited health plans. About three quarters of the nation’s largest employers use Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set (HEDIS®) data to evaluate the plans that serve their employees.
Ms. O’Kane was named Health Person of the Year in 1996 by the journal Medicine & Health. She also received a 1997 Founder’s Award from The American College of Medical Quality in recognition of NCQA’s efforts to improve managed care quality. In 1999, she was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine, a highly-regarded organization of healthcare providers, researchers and others that are frequently called on to help shape national healthcare policy. In 2000, Ms. O’Kane received the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Champion of Prevention Award, the agency’s highest honor. In 2002, she was voted by her peers as one of Modern Healthcare’s “100 Most Powerful People in Health Care.”
Ms. O’Kane began her career in healthcare as a respiratory therapist and went on to earn a Master’s degree in Health Administration and Planning from Johns Hopkins University.
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Thomas (Tim) K. Oliver Jr, MD (1925-2003)
ABMS Distinguished Service Award Recipient 1997
Dr. Oliver occupied a prominent place in pediatric medicine, serving as an officer in most of the pediatric academic scientific organizations and pediatric societies. His contributions to medicine, pediatric medicine, clinically and academically, as well as the certification process were many and varied.
Dr. Oliver devoted more than 20 years to the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) as a director, staff member and oral examiner. He became its President in 1985 and served as Senior Vice President from 1987 to 1995. He was instrumental in establishing Neonatal- Perinatal Medicine as a subspecialty of pediatrics. During those years he was an Adjunct Faculty Member at the medical schools of Duke University and the University of North Carolina. He was also active as an ABP representative to ABMS and served on both the Committee on Certification, Recertification and Subcertification (COCERT) and the Executive Committee.
His life long interest in pulmonary medicine began at Ohio State University where he managed the iron lung for polio patients. He also studied newborn pulmonary function at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. At the University of Washington, he established the Department of Neonatal Biology. In 1970, he became Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh and medical director and Physician-in-Chief at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
In 1987, Dr. Oliver moved to North Carolina to become Senior Vice President of ABP. He retired from the Board in 1995, but continued to teach.
Dr. Oliver received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics and in the subspecialty of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.
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Gerard Piel (1915-2004)
ABMS Public Member 1981-1985, 1989-1999
Mr. Piel was instrumental in advising the board on development of the ABMS Compendium of Board Certified Medical Specialists and other publications.
Early in his career, he served as the Science Editor for Life magazine. Most notably, he re-established the magazine Scientific American in 1948 and served as Editor and Publisher until the mid 1980’s, but continued on as Chairman for another decade. During this time he continued to write and speak about science. He authored a number of books, including: The Age of Science: What Scientists Learned in the 20th Century (2001) and Only One World (1992) and co-edited The World of Rene Dubos: A Collection of His Writings (1990). These books joined his earlier works, Science in the Cause of Man (1962) and The Acceleration of History (1972).
Believing strongly that the entire world should participate and share in the benefits of scientific enterprise, he aggressively sought partners outside the United States to publish Scientific American in other countries and languages. Today, editions of Scientific American are published in 18 nations.
Mr. Piel also held many other positions throughout his career, including President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and membership on the boards of the American Museum of Natural History, the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation and the Mayo Clinic.
Mr. Piel received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University. He also received more than twenty honorary doctorates and numerous awards in the scientific community.
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Nicholas Pisacano, MD (1924-1990)
ABMS Distinguished Service Award Recipient 1991(posthumously)
Dr. Pisacano is recognized nationally as one of the leaders in the effort to recognize Family Practice as a major specialty. His fierce devotion and perseverance was rewarded in 1969 when the American Board of Family Practice (now the American Board of Family Medicine) was founded. Dr. Pisacano became the organization's Executive Director and remained so until January 1990.
From the beginning Dr. Pisacano had a strong desire to transform Family Practice into a respected academic discipline with its own set of unique requirements. He spent an enormous amount of time and effort to achieve recognition of Family Practice as one of the major specialties - one that would be board certified. As a strong advocate of the original precepts laid down by Hippocrates, he believed that the welfare of the patient was utmost and that physicians should be broadly educated. He clearly recognized that physicians need technical medical expertise, but they also need the personal skills necessary to relate to their patients and therefore stressed the importance of the humanities in each physician's education.
Dr. Pisacano held many positions at the University of Kentucky, including: member of the school's Board of Trustees, Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Director of Continuing Medical Education at the University of Kentucky Medical Center, and Assistant to the Vice President at the Medical Center. As a professor Dr. Pisacano was well respected and liked. In 1965 he was voted the University’s most popular professor. In1978 he left the University to work full-time for the Board, but he continued teaching at the University part- time.
In January 1991the American Board of Family Practice established the Nicholas J. Pisacano, MD Memorial Foundation (now the Pisacano Leadership Foundation) as an enduring tribute to the Founder and first Executive Director of the Board. The Pisacano Leadership Foundation seeks to support and advance the careers of accomplished students and physicians in the field of family medicine who have demonstrated the leadership qualities which Dr. Pisacano embodied.
Dr. Pisacano received his Bachelor’s degree from Western Maryland College and his medical degree in medicine from the Hahnemann School of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed his residency at Stamford Hospital in Connecticut. He was certified by the American Board of Family Practice.
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Dennis D. Pointer, PhD
ABMS Public Member 2000- 2002
Dr. Pointer has had a long and distinguished career as an academician educator and business-man. He is a nationally recognized expert in health systems boards and governance and has published extensively on these subjects. His firm, Dennis D. Pointer & Associates specializes in governance retreat facilitation, design, development, consulting and assessment. Dr. Pointer is also Vice President and Partner of the American Governance and Leadership Group, LLC (sponsored by the American Hospital Association).
Dr. Pointer is Professor of Healthcare Management, Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine at the University of Washington. His academic career also included service on the faculties of San Diego State University, the Medical College of Virginia, the University of California at Los Angeles, the University of Iowa, Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the City of University of New York in addition to having served as Associate Director, Department of Teaching Hospitals, Association of American Medical Colleges.
He has written over 70 articles and is the author of six books including Really Governing (Delmar, 1996) and Board Work (Jossey-Bass 1999); both are winners of the James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. His newest books Getting To Great: Principles of Health Care Organization Governance and The High Performance Board were recently published by Jossey-Bass.
Dr. Pointer is an honorary life member of the Healthcare Forum, a recipient of the Foster G. McGaw Medal of Excellence in Health Administration, Education and Research, and has been a Dozor Distinguished Visiting Professor of Medical Administration at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. In addition to ABMS, he has served as a member/chairman of many boards, including Daniel Freeman Hospitals, Health Insights Inc., Praxis Corporation, Network for Health Administration and CIS Technologies Inc.
Dr. Pointer received his PhD in Hospital and Health Administration from the University of Iowa.
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