David Coleman Named President-Elect of the Association of Professors of Medicine

David Coleman, MD, Wade Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Chief of the Division of Medicine at Boston Medical Center (BMC), has been elected president-elect of the Association of Professors of Medicine (APM). APM is the organization of departments of internal medicine represented by chairs and appointed leaders at medical schools and affiliated teaching hospitals in the United States and Canada.

This three-year role will begin July 2016, when Coleman will be named president elect of the association. Following a year as president from July 2017-18, he then will serve one year as past president.  During his three-year term as an APM officer, he also will join the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) Board of Directors. The AAIM Board of Directors includes presidents, presidents-elect, and past presidents of APM, the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), the Association of Specialty Professors (ASP), the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM), and the Administrators of Internal Medicine (AIM).

Coleman received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco. His residency in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases were conducted at Yale-New Haven Hospital. He joined the faculty of the Yale Department of Medicine in 1983 and served as Chief of Infectious Diseases at VA Connecticut Healthcare System from 1989-92 and the VA Medical Center in Denver, Colorado from 1992-3. Coleman was appointed Chief of Medical Service at VA Connecticut in 1993 and was Interim Chair of the Department of Medicine at Yale from 2003-6. He joined BUSM in October 2006.

His research interests have been in the basic mechanisms of macrophage activation. Over the past 15 years, he has been involved in clinical care, medical education and administration. He has more recently written on topics of interdisciplinary research and medical professionalism, particularly on relationships of physicians with industry and care of the underserved. Coleman serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine and on the Council of the Association of Professors of Medicine. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians.