BUSM's Levine Elected Chair of ABIM's Subspecialty Board on Geriatric Medicine
BUSM’s Professor Sharon Levine, who also serves as associate dean of Academic Affairs, has been named Chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Subspecialty Board on Geriatric Medicine. She becomes the subspecialty board’s representative to ABIM’s Board of Directors. Levine has been a member of the Subspecialty Board on Geriatric Medicine since 2007. ABIM sets the standards and certifies physicians practicing in internal medicine and its subspecialties that possess the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide high quality care.
“It has been a privilege to serve on the Geriatrics Subspecialty Board and I look forward to contributing to the Board of Directors,” says Dr. Levine. “In particular, I am delighted to bring my knowledge of working as a member of an interprofessional team, something that is relevant to all internists in practice in addition to the required knowledge, attitudes and skills required for good doctoring in a diverse society and changing health care environment.”
“Sharon is one of the nation’s leading geriatrics educators. As a member of the subspecialty board she will now chair, she has continually brought her experience to bear in creating Certification and Maintenance of Certification programs in geriatric medicine that are current and relevant to what physicians are doing in practice,” said Christine K. Cassel, MD, ABIM’s President and CEO.
Levine was awarded the 2011 Dennis W. Jahnigen Memorial Award from The American Geriatrics Society for outstanding leadership in advancing geriatrics education in health professions schools. She is the recipient of the prestigious Metcalf Cup and Prize, Boston University’s highest teaching award, as well as the Department of Medicine’s Robert Dawson Evans Special Recognition Teaching Award. In 2004, she received one of three mentorship awards conferred by the Society of General Internal Medicine.