David C. Kibbe, M.D., M.B.A.

Director, Center for Health Information Technology

American Academy of Family Physicians

406 Copperline Drive
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27516

2021 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC, 20036

11400 Tomahawk Creek Parkway
Leawood, Kansas 66211

Phones: 919-960-5290, 888-794-7481,
800-274-2237 913-205-7968 (cell)

Emails: dkibbe@aafp.org kibbedavid@mac.com

Dr. Kibbe is the Director of the Center for Health Information Technology for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), the membership organization that represents over 95,000 U.S. family doctors. In this position, he is responsible for formulating AAFP strategic direction and policy affecting a broad range of information and communications technology initiatives, including HIPAA, electronic health records, computer security, practice management systems, and quality measurement. The Center is the locus of the AAFP’s technical expertise, advocacy, research and member services activities associated with health information technology, and a leading national resource on information and communications technology that supports the family medicine practice of the future.

Dr. Kibbe is known internationally in the field of health information technology and has solid accomplishments in the business of e-health. He began his career as a small-town family physician, and has practiced medicine in private and academic settings for more than 15 years. Dr. Kibbe has taught at the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and founded two health information companies located in North Carolina, He continues to serve as medical director and board chairman of Canopy Systems, an innovative and award-winning software firm that provides Web-based case management software to many of the country’s largest academic health centers and the U.S. Navy hospital system.

Dr. Kibbe has authored numerous peer-reviewed articles and several book chapters on e-health, computer security, and HIPAA, and is co-author if the The AMA's Field Guide to HIPAA Implementation, an American Medical Association publication. He is a frequent speaker on HIPAA privacy and security compliance for clinical audiences around the country.

Dr. Kibbe received his BA from Harvard University, MD from Case-Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and his MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.