{"id":6629,"date":"2012-01-11T09:19:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:19:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm-news\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2012-01-11T09:19:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:19:02","slug":"samet-installed-as-president-of-abam-and-abam-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2012\/01\/11\/samet-installed-as-president-of-abam-and-abam-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"Samet Installed as President of ABAM and ABAM Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, a professor of medicine and community health sciences at BUSM and BUSPH, has been installed as the president of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and The ABAM Foundation.  Samet will serve in this volunteer position for two years. In this role he will lead ABAM in the formal certification of  physicians as experts in addiction medicine, establish and accredit physician post-graduate addiction medicine training programs, and thus advance the quality of medical care for substance use disorders related to alcohol, tobacco and other addicting drugs, including some prescription medications.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1994\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1994\" style=\"width: 285px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/camed\/files\/2012\/01\/Samet-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1994\" title=\"Samet web\" src=\"\/camed\/files\/2012\/01\/Samet-web.jpg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Samet\" width=\"275\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1994\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeffrey Samet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ABAM is an independent medical specialty board established in 2007 to certify addiction medicine physicians from several specialties, including emergency medicine, family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, preventive medicine, psychiatry and others. Prior to ABAM\u2019s formation, only one medical specialty (psychiatry) offered sub-specialized training and certification in addiction.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAddiction medicine is a unique field, encompassing elements of a range of medical specialties that come into contact with patients with addictive disorders,\u201d explained Samet. \u201cWe want addiction prevention, screening, intervention and treatment to become routine aspects of medical care wherever health care is provided. ABAM-certified physicians will also be able to address common medical or psychiatric conditions related to the use of addictive substances.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, a professor of medicine and community health sciences at BUSM and BUSPH, has been installed as the president of the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and The ABAM Foundation. Samet will serve in this volunteer position for two years. In this role he will lead ABAM in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}