C. Seth Landefeld, M.D., professor and chair of the Department of Medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been named to the American Board of Internal Medicine.
The ABIM’s Board of Directors comprises physicians with academic and clinical practice experience, interprofessional health care team members, and public members. The Board sets the future direction, strategy and goals for the organization to ensure the relevance and value of ABIM Certification and develops and maintains important partnerships in the health care community.
Landefeld, who holds the Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership at UAB, is an internationally known clinician and researcher in geriatrics, epidemiology and biostatistics. He serves on the Boards of Directors of the UAB Health System and the University of Alabama Health Services Foundation and is a member of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.
He completed his undergraduate work at Harvard and New College, Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He received his medical degree from Yale and trained in internal medicine at University of California-San Francisco and in clinical epidemiology at Harvard.
Landefeld is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians and was recently a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is past president of the Society of General Internal Medicine and serves on the boards of the American Geriatrics Society, Association of Directors of Geriatric Academic Programs and San Francisco’s Institute on Aging. In 2011, he received the Robert J. Glaser Award “For Exceptional Contributions to Education and Research,” the highest award of the Society of General Internal Medicine.
“ABIM Board and Council members work in and represent communities of physicians and patients from across the country and from a variety of clinical settings,” said Richard J. Baron, M.D., president and CEO of ABIM. “We’ll rely on these relationships to help us align our programs with how physicians practice today while maintaining standards patients can trust. Our focus is offering physicians more flexibility in how their pursuit of new knowledge across the field of internal medicine can be effortlessly recognized through ongoing certification. I look forward to all we will accomplish together with leadership from our new officers and with insights from our new members.”