Internal Medicine Board
The Specialty Boards and Advisory Committees aim to maintain a composition that reflects the diversity and complexity of the physician and patient populations that certification serves. They include both practicing physician members and public members representing interdisciplinary healthcare professionals, patients and caregivers.
Dr. Wardrop is a career clinician-educator and Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He serves as faculty at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. Previously, Dr. Wardrop was Program Director for the Combined Med-Peds Residency at the University of North Carolina, founding faculty at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and founding Associate Dean for Biomedical Affairs at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine. Throughout his career, he has practiced both as an adult and pediatric hospitalist and was recognized by the American College of Physicians (ACP) as one of America's top 10 hospitalists in 2018. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics. He is the Chair of the ABIM Internal Medicine Board.
Dr. Wardrop has served in national leadership positions within ACP, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He has served as Chair of the Council of Early Career Physicians and as a member of the ACP Board of Regents. He continues on the ACP Education Committee. Within AAIM, he has served on the AAIM Education Committee and the AAIM Graduate Medical Education Funding Task Force, and chaired the AAIM Faculty Development Committee from 2015 to 2017. Within AAP, Dr. Wardrop was a member of the Section of Medicine and Pediatrics Executive Council from 2015 to 2018.
Dr. Wardrop attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, graduating in 1994 summa cum laude, with honors, in biology before graduating from the Ohio State University with a doctoral degree in molecular virology and immunology in 2000 and his medical degree cum laude in 2002. He completed combined internal medicine and pediatric residency and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As of November 2024, Dr. Wardrop reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Wardrop is a career clinician-educator and Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He serves as faculty at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Case Western Reserve University. Previously, Dr. Wardrop was Program Director for the Combined Med-Peds Residency at the University of North Carolina, founding faculty at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and founding Associate Dean for Biomedical Affairs at Campbell University School of Osteopathic Medicine. Throughout his career, he has practiced both as an adult and pediatric hospitalist and was recognized by the American College of Physicians (ACP) as one of America's top 10 hospitalists in 2018. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and board certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics. He is the Chair of the ABIM Internal Medicine Board.
Dr. Wardrop has served in national leadership positions within ACP, the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He has served as Chair of the Council of Early Career Physicians and as a member of the ACP Board of Regents. He continues on the ACP Education Committee. Within AAIM, he has served on the AAIM Education Committee and the AAIM Graduate Medical Education Funding Task Force, and chaired the AAIM Faculty Development Committee from 2015 to 2017. Within AAP, Dr. Wardrop was a member of the Section of Medicine and Pediatrics Executive Council from 2015 to 2018.
Dr. Wardrop attended Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, graduating in 1994 summa cum laude, with honors, in biology before graduating from the Ohio State University with a doctoral degree in molecular virology and immunology in 2000 and his medical degree cum laude in 2002. He completed combined internal medicine and pediatric residency and served as Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
As of November 2024, Dr. Wardrop reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Brown has spent her career as a clinician educator and lifelong learner. She practices internal medicine and pediatrics in hospital and ambulatory settings at the University of Miami in Florida. She is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Her career has focused on postgraduate medical education. She is currently the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System and the Med-Peds Division Chief. As Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, she transformed the education in the residency in the move to a novel X+Y+Z block scheduling schema that accommodates several fellowship and career focused pathways allowing for early tailored career development. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics.
Dr. Brown joined the University of Miami in 2008 as the Med-Peds Residency Program Director. She served in several leadership positions both within the university and nationally. Her past leadership roles include Assistant Dean for Diversity, Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine, member representative for the Med-Peds Program Director Association and most recently as the Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force for the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine.
Dr. Brown earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in Newark, New Jersey, and earned her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio. She completed her med-peds residency, internal medicine chief residency and junior faculty years at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in Newark. With a burgeoning interest in clinical operations and policy, she completed her executive Master of Business Administration in Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami in 2020.
As of September 2024, Dr. Brown reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Brown has spent her career as a clinician educator and lifelong learner. She practices internal medicine and pediatrics in hospital and ambulatory settings at the University of Miami in Florida. She is Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Her career has focused on postgraduate medical education. She is currently the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the University of Miami/Jackson Health System and the Med-Peds Division Chief. As Internal Medicine Residency Program Director, she transformed the education in the residency in the move to a novel X+Y+Z block scheduling schema that accommodates several fellowship and career focused pathways allowing for early tailored career development. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in Pediatrics.
Dr. Brown joined the University of Miami in 2008 as the Med-Peds Residency Program Director. She served in several leadership positions both within the university and nationally. Her past leadership roles include Assistant Dean for Diversity, Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine, member representative for the Med-Peds Program Director Association and most recently as the Chair of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Task Force for the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine.
Dr. Brown earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware in Newark, New Jersey, and earned her medical degree at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine in Ohio. She completed her med-peds residency, internal medicine chief residency and junior faculty years at Rutgers-New Jersey Medical School in Newark. With a burgeoning interest in clinical operations and policy, she completed her executive Master of Business Administration in Health Management and Policy at the University of Miami in 2020.
As of September 2024, Dr. Brown reported no ongoing external relationships.
Col. Coffee is an active duty career military officer who serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Force Management Integration on the Secretary of the Air and Space Forces Staff. After graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta, he entered the Air Force and was commissioned through the Tennessee State University ROTC program in Nashville. Col. Coffee holds master's degrees in legislative affairs and clinical quality safety and leadership from Georgetown University, and a Diversity and Inclusion in Human Resources Certificate from Cornell University.
Col. Coffee commanded over 600 personnel at the National Reconnaissance Office and his staff assignments included the Joint Staff, three combatant command tours, the Air Staff and the National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Col. Coffee deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Freedom Sentinal and Operation Inherent Resolve, and served as a military aide to former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama on the social staff.
Col. Coffee began his journey as a patient advocate and activist following his then eight-week-old son’s liver transplant due to a diagnostic error. He is a founding member of the Patients for Patient Safety U.S. chapter of the World Health Organization and Chief Executive Officer of Head-2-Heart Connections, LLC. A bestselling children's book author for Baby Steven's Gift of Life, he is an international speaker on equity, diversity and patient engagement. He is a patient advocate on numerous patient and family advisory councils for private and government hospital systems nationwide.
As of October 2024, Col. Coffee reported no ongoing external relationships.
Col. Coffee is an active duty career military officer who serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Force Management Integration on the Secretary of the Air and Space Forces Staff. After graduating from Morehouse College in Atlanta, he entered the Air Force and was commissioned through the Tennessee State University ROTC program in Nashville. Col. Coffee holds master's degrees in legislative affairs and clinical quality safety and leadership from Georgetown University, and a Diversity and Inclusion in Human Resources Certificate from Cornell University.
Col. Coffee commanded over 600 personnel at the National Reconnaissance Office and his staff assignments included the Joint Staff, three combatant command tours, the Air Staff and the National Security Agency/Central Security Service. Col. Coffee deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Freedom Sentinal and Operation Inherent Resolve, and served as a military aide to former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama on the social staff.
Col. Coffee began his journey as a patient advocate and activist following his then eight-week-old son’s liver transplant due to a diagnostic error. He is a founding member of the Patients for Patient Safety U.S. chapter of the World Health Organization and Chief Executive Officer of Head-2-Heart Connections, LLC. A bestselling children's book author for Baby Steven's Gift of Life, he is an international speaker on equity, diversity and patient engagement. He is a patient advocate on numerous patient and family advisory councils for private and government hospital systems nationwide.
As of October 2024, Col. Coffee reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Gelles (she/her) is a clinician-educator with an extensive career in internal medicine and clinical informatics. Currently serving as a primary care internist and physician informaticist at the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, she plays a pivotal role bridging clinical medicine, information technology and healthcare system operations to enhance patient outcomes and clinician well-being. Dr. Gelles is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and regularly teaches and mentors a cohort of internal medicine residents and clinical informatics fellows. Her contributions to the field have been recognized, including being named Internist of the Year by the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians in 2021.
Dr. Gelles has been actively involved in regional and national leadership roles with the American College of Physicians (ACP). She is a member of the ACP Medical Informatics Committee, where she provides guidance on health information technology issues. She has chaired the Ohio Chapter's Health and Public Policy Committee and served as faculty for multiple regional and national ACP educational meetings.
A graduate of Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, Dr. Gelles earned her Doctor of Medicine from CWRU. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Dr. Gelles is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and certified by the American Board of Preventative Medicine in Clinical Informatics.
As of June 2025, Dr. Gelles reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Gelles (she/her) is a clinician-educator with an extensive career in internal medicine and clinical informatics. Currently serving as a primary care internist and physician informaticist at the MetroHealth System in Cleveland, Ohio, she plays a pivotal role bridging clinical medicine, information technology and healthcare system operations to enhance patient outcomes and clinician well-being. Dr. Gelles is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine and regularly teaches and mentors a cohort of internal medicine residents and clinical informatics fellows. Her contributions to the field have been recognized, including being named Internist of the Year by the Ohio Chapter of the American College of Physicians in 2021.
Dr. Gelles has been actively involved in regional and national leadership roles with the American College of Physicians (ACP). She is a member of the ACP Medical Informatics Committee, where she provides guidance on health information technology issues. She has chaired the Ohio Chapter's Health and Public Policy Committee and served as faculty for multiple regional and national ACP educational meetings.
A graduate of Tufts University with a Bachelor of Science in Biology, Dr. Gelles earned her Doctor of Medicine from CWRU. She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Dr. Gelles is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and certified by the American Board of Preventative Medicine in Clinical Informatics.
As of June 2025, Dr. Gelles reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Khan is a practicing general internist and Executive Medical Director at Oak Street Health, a value-based healthcare company focused on the delivery of transformative primary care to vulnerable Medicare and Medicare-Medicaid enrollees across the United States. At Oak Street, Dr. Khan serves as chief medical officer over Oak Street's largest division, leading the clinical and operational performance of a delivery system with more than 30 centers, 100 clinicians and 750 employees over three states. He also serves on the clinical faculty of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Khan is an experienced leader of mission-driven teams through periods of growth, uncertainty and high-stakes challenges. Previously, he served as CareMore Health's Clinical Design Officer, where he directed national clinical product and program design, implementation and iterative innovation for CareMore's work with high need, complex and vulnerable populations across the United States. At Iora Health, Ali served on the national clinical operations leadership team as Director of Physician Engagement and a clinical innovator, where he led the strategic design and implementation of a variety of initiatives in population health, clinical quality improvement, clinical application product development and workforce development.
Dr. Khan is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and practices general internal medicine in both the primary care and inpatient settings, focused on the care of medically complex, highly vulnerable and high-need populations. Beyond the clinic, Dr. Khan maintains an active public leadership portfolio, including recent service on the national boards of Doctors for America, the American College of Physicians, Physicians for Human Rights, the California Health Care Foundation Leadership Program and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Khan completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he served on the clinical faculty. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU's Medical College of Virginia, earning joint medical and Master of Public Policy degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow.
As of June 2025, Dr. Khan reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Khan is currently Senior Vice President/Executive Medical Director at Oak Street Health and Chief Medical Officer for Aetna Medicare at CVS Health. He also serves as an advisory Board member for Voya Health.
Dr. Khan is a practicing general internist and Executive Medical Director at Oak Street Health, a value-based healthcare company focused on the delivery of transformative primary care to vulnerable Medicare and Medicare-Medicaid enrollees across the United States. At Oak Street, Dr. Khan serves as chief medical officer over Oak Street's largest division, leading the clinical and operational performance of a delivery system with more than 30 centers, 100 clinicians and 750 employees over three states. He also serves on the clinical faculty of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Khan is an experienced leader of mission-driven teams through periods of growth, uncertainty and high-stakes challenges. Previously, he served as CareMore Health's Clinical Design Officer, where he directed national clinical product and program design, implementation and iterative innovation for CareMore's work with high need, complex and vulnerable populations across the United States. At Iora Health, Ali served on the national clinical operations leadership team as Director of Physician Engagement and a clinical innovator, where he led the strategic design and implementation of a variety of initiatives in population health, clinical quality improvement, clinical application product development and workforce development.
Dr. Khan is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine and practices general internal medicine in both the primary care and inpatient settings, focused on the care of medically complex, highly vulnerable and high-need populations. Beyond the clinic, Dr. Khan maintains an active public leadership portfolio, including recent service on the national boards of Doctors for America, the American College of Physicians, Physicians for Human Rights, the California Health Care Foundation Leadership Program and Virginia Commonwealth University.
Dr. Khan completed his residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, where he served on the clinical faculty. He is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and VCU's Medical College of Virginia, earning joint medical and Master of Public Policy degrees as a Harvard Public Service Fellow.
As of June 2025, Dr. Khan reported the following external relationships:
Dr. Khan is currently Senior Vice President/Executive Medical Director at Oak Street Health and Chief Medical Officer for Aetna Medicare at CVS Health. He also serves as an advisory Board member for Voya Health.
Dr. Pizzimenti is the Associate Medical Officer of Acute Care and is the founding Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at North Mississippi Medical Center. Previously, he served in the National Health Service Core in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and founded the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Mississippi in 2009. Dr. Pizzimenti oversaw the accreditation and maturation of an internal medicine residency program that serves one of the nation’s most underserved regions. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
He was the first program director in the country to lead the transition from American Osteopathic Association (ACOI) to ACGME accreditation in the Single Accreditation System in 2015 and was awarded the ACOI national “Teacher of the Year” in 2015. He became a member of the ACGME Internal Medicine Review Committee in 2017.
Dr. Pizzimenti attended medical school at Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed internal medicine residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, in 2005.
As of September 2024, Dr. Pizzimenti reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Pizzimenti is the Associate Medical Officer of Acute Care and is the founding Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency at North Mississippi Medical Center. Previously, he served in the National Health Service Core in Holly Springs, Mississippi, and founded the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Magnolia Regional Health Center in Corinth, Mississippi in 2009. Dr. Pizzimenti oversaw the accreditation and maturation of an internal medicine residency program that serves one of the nation’s most underserved regions. He is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
He was the first program director in the country to lead the transition from American Osteopathic Association (ACOI) to ACGME accreditation in the Single Accreditation System in 2015 and was awarded the ACOI national “Teacher of the Year” in 2015. He became a member of the ACGME Internal Medicine Review Committee in 2017.
Dr. Pizzimenti attended medical school at Nova Southeastern College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed internal medicine residency training at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach, Florida, in 2005.
As of September 2024, Dr. Pizzimenti reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Ramelb practices hospital medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine. She is a devoted clinician-educator and teaches within all phases of the college of medicine curriculum as a course co-director for problem-based learning (PBL), the internal medicine Observed Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) coordinator and a course co-director for the PBL case-writing senior elective. She also serves as a member of the curriculum committee and the OSCE grading leadership team. In addition, for the internal medicine residency, Dr. Ramelb rounds on the traditional teaching teams and tower-based rounding hospitalist teams, serves as a faculty mentor and facilitates a journal club. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Ramelb attended the University of Notre Dame, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 2011. She earned her medical degree at Creighton University School of Medicine in 2015. She completed her internal medicine residency at Loyola University Medical Center in 2018 and worked as a hospitalist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital before returning to Nebraska.
As of April 2025, Dr. Ramelb reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Ramelb practices hospital medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine. She is a devoted clinician-educator and teaches within all phases of the college of medicine curriculum as a course co-director for problem-based learning (PBL), the internal medicine Observed Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) coordinator and a course co-director for the PBL case-writing senior elective. She also serves as a member of the curriculum committee and the OSCE grading leadership team. In addition, for the internal medicine residency, Dr. Ramelb rounds on the traditional teaching teams and tower-based rounding hospitalist teams, serves as a faculty mentor and facilitates a journal club. She is ABIM Board Certified in Internal Medicine.
Dr. Ramelb attended the University of Notre Dame, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in 2011. She earned her medical degree at Creighton University School of Medicine in 2015. She completed her internal medicine residency at Loyola University Medical Center in 2018 and worked as a hospitalist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital before returning to Nebraska.
As of April 2025, Dr. Ramelb reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Stocking is a paramedic/nurse-scientist and a healthcare quality improvement expert. She has a more than 20 years of demonstrated experience improving patient and provider safety through enhanced project management and increased organizational leadership capacity.
She is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, where her clinical program of research focuses on postoperative respiratory failure. She is also the Co-Vice Chair for Quality and Safety for the Department of Internal Medicine.
In addition to lecturing and consulting nationally and internationally, she is recognized by colleagues as an expert in leadership, project management, performance improvement, high reliability, just culture, high-performance teamwork, interprofessional education and risk mitigation/medical legal consulting.
Dr. Stocking has earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science and Health Care Leadership, a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Nursing.
As of September 2024, Dr. Stocking reported the following external relationships:
Service as a fiduciary officer for the following organization, without compensation:
- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Appeals Committee, Member.
Dr. Stocking is a paramedic/nurse-scientist and a healthcare quality improvement expert. She has a more than 20 years of demonstrated experience improving patient and provider safety through enhanced project management and increased organizational leadership capacity.
She is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, where her clinical program of research focuses on postoperative respiratory failure. She is also the Co-Vice Chair for Quality and Safety for the Department of Internal Medicine.
In addition to lecturing and consulting nationally and internationally, she is recognized by colleagues as an expert in leadership, project management, performance improvement, high reliability, just culture, high-performance teamwork, interprofessional education and risk mitigation/medical legal consulting.
Dr. Stocking has earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Nursing Science and Health Care Leadership, a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Nursing.
As of September 2024, Dr. Stocking reported the following external relationships:
Service as a fiduciary officer for the following organization, without compensation:
- The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Appeals Committee, Member.
Dr. Walsh is the founding physician and Medical Director of the Virginia Hospital Center Physician Group-Primary Care Arlington. In addition, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, serving as an instructor for medical students during their outpatient medicine clerkship. He served as the Team Internist for the Washington Capitals professional hockey team from 2006 to 2014.
Dr. Walsh previously served as a member of the ABIM Supplemental Test Writing Committee. Within Virginia Hospital Center’s Physician Group, Dr. Walsh serves as the Chair of the Electronic Health Records Committee and is an active member of the Quality Committee. He has served on the Resource Utilization, Credentials and By-Laws Committees for the hospital. Dr. Walsh is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and an active member of the Virginia and Arlington County Medical Societies, the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and the American Medical Association.
A graduate of Georgetown University with a major in biology, Dr. Walsh continued his studies at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Walsh completed his internal medicine training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
As of September 2024, Dr. Walsh reported no ongoing external relationships.
Dr. Walsh is the founding physician and Medical Director of the Virginia Hospital Center Physician Group-Primary Care Arlington. In addition, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine, serving as an instructor for medical students during their outpatient medicine clerkship. He served as the Team Internist for the Washington Capitals professional hockey team from 2006 to 2014.
Dr. Walsh previously served as a member of the ABIM Supplemental Test Writing Committee. Within Virginia Hospital Center’s Physician Group, Dr. Walsh serves as the Chair of the Electronic Health Records Committee and is an active member of the Quality Committee. He has served on the Resource Utilization, Credentials and By-Laws Committees for the hospital. Dr. Walsh is a fellow of the American College of Physicians and an active member of the Virginia and Arlington County Medical Societies, the Alpha Omega Alpha Medical Honor Society and the American Medical Association.
A graduate of Georgetown University with a major in biology, Dr. Walsh continued his studies at the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr. Walsh completed his internal medicine training at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.
As of September 2024, Dr. Walsh reported no ongoing external relationships.