Steven Waldren

Steven E. Waldren, MD, serves as director of the American Academy of Family Physicians' Center for Health IT. Waldren joined the AAFP in May 2004. The Center for Health IT assists family physicians and other primary care doctors at various stages of EHR adoption. In addition to directing the AAFP's Center for Health IT, he serves as co-chair of the Physicians' EHR Coalition, a group of representatives from more than 20 professional medical associations that address issues related to health care IT and physician practices. He also is a member of the National Quality Forum's HIT Measure Steering Committee.

Waldren serves in a volunteer role as vice chair of the American Society for Testing Materials, co-founded Open Health Data, and is a member and past co-chair of the Ambulatory Functionality Working Group of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology. Additionally, Waldren serves as board chair of the Center for Improving Medication Management, co-chair of the Ambulatory Care Quality Alliance's Data Aggregation and HIT Subcommittee; member of the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) working group on PDF/H; member of the American National Standards Institute-Health Care Information Technology Standards Panel; member of the Certification Commission on Health IT Ambulatory Working Group; Co-founder of www.ccrstandard.com; and, member of Healthcare IT News Editorial Advisory Board.

Waldren is a board-certified family physician. He completed his master's in health care informatics in May 2004 from the University of Missouri, Columbia, while completing a National Library of Medicine Postdoctoral Medical Informatics Research Fellowship. He completed his family medicine residency at Wesley Family Medicine (University of Kansas School of Medicine), Wichita, Kansas and earned his medical degree from the University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City.