, /PRNewswire/ -- The American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) has elected Lynne Holden, M.D., to its Board of Directors. She is simply a prof successful the Department of Emergency Medicine and Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion astatine the Albert Einstein College of Medicine successful New York, New York. When Dr. Holden obtained afloat professorship successful Emergency Medicine successful 2018, she was conscionable the 5th African American pistillate successful the U.S. to execute that position. She teaches and practices clinically astatine the Montefiore Hospital System-Moses Division. She has served arsenic an ABEM oral examiner since 2003 and a elder oral examiner since 2013.
Dr. Holden's committedness to medicine extends to the nonprofit assemblage to beforehand underrepresented successful medicine (URiM) physicians and trim wellness disparities. She is co-founder and president of Mentoring successful Medicine, Inc., an enactment that assists URiM students oregon those from socioeconomically disadvantaged backgrounds to go wellness and subject professionals. Additional examples of her nationalist enactment see roles focused connected expanding diverseness with the Association of American Medical Colleges Pathway Program Committee, National Medical Association Emergency Medicine Section Chair, Friends of the National Library of Medicine Board of Directors, the W. Montague Cobb Health Institute Pathway Programs Co-Chair, and the D.C. Public School System Postsecondary and Career Education Executive Advisory Board Co-Chair.
Dr. Holden was elected to the Board successful a peculiar predetermination to regenerate J. David Barry, M.D., who died tragically connected September 2, 2022. She volition statesman her word connected the Board successful January 2023.
"ABEM welcomes Dr. Holden to the Board of Directors! We look guardant to having her position and expertise successful helping to transportation retired the ABEM ngo of ensuring the highest modular successful the specialty of Emergency Medicine," shared ABEM President, Samuel M. Keim, M.D., M.S.
About ABEM
Founded successful 1976, the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) is an autarkic nonprofit that develops and administers Emergency Medicine certification examinations to physicians who person met each ABEM credentialing requirements. Once certified, ABEM-certified physicians indispensable implicit continuing acquisition and appraisal activities.
The ABEM ngo is to uphold the highest standards successful the specialty of Emergency Medicine. Over 43,000 exigency physicians are presently certified. ABEM is 1 of 24 Member Boards of the American Board of Medical Specialties.
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