Dr. Gillian Heineken is the American Board of Dermatology’s 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar.

Gillian Heinecke, MD, an assistant clinical professor at SSM Health/Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Mo. is the American Board of Dermatology’s 2023-2024 Visiting Scholar.

The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) selected thirteen outstanding individuals to participate in its 2023-2024 Visiting Scholars Program. Established in 2014, the one-year, part-time program supports early-career physicians and researchers in scholarship and leadership development focusing on initial and continuing board certification. Each Visiting Scholar receives a $15,000 award.

"We are pleased to support a record number of ABMS Visiting Scholars this year," says Greg Ogrinc, MD, MS, ABMS Senior Vice President, Certification Standards and Programs, in a news release. "This new cohort of scholars will advance research and scholarship in high-priority areas for the certification community, including physician well-being, quality improvement, and diversity, equity and innovations in assessment."

ABMS Visiting Scholars are selected based on the quality of their proposed research project, the relevance of their research to the ABMS mission and the certification community, and demonstration of making significant progress on the project during the scholar year. Program participants remain at their home institutions, collaborate with self-selected mentors, and participate in monthly virtual sessions with research project-in-progress updates to peers, mentors, and subject matter experts.