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Dr. Kaufman joined DrFirst as the Chief Medical Officer in late 1999. After developing a strong interest in medical informatics while on the faculty at Bowman Gray School of Medicine (Wake Forest University) in the late 1980s, he continued working within this area even after entering private practice in 1989. Dr. Kaufman founded PiNK software in 1996 to produce electronic medical records software. He has lectured nationally on computers in medicine, electronic medical records, the Internet and medical practice, and high-tech medicine. He is a board certified gastroenterologist and continues to practice medicine approximately 15 hours per week for a gastroenterology practice in Bethesda, Maryland. Dr. Kaufman participates in multiple national organizations promoting standards in healthcare, including the Physicians EHR Consortium (Secretary/Executive Board), HIMSS (eRx Workgroup), NCPDP (SIG Standards Workgroup), and the AMA (Delegate from the American Gastroenterological Association). He received a B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.D. from George Washington School of Medicine. | 