American Health Information Community: Members
Douglas E. Henley, M.D.
Executive Vice President
American Academy of Family Physicians
Douglas E. Henley, M.D. serves as executive vice president (EVP) for the American
Academy of Family Physicians. The AAFP is the medical specialty organization
representing more than 93,700 family physicians, family practice residents and medical
students nationwide.
As EVP, Henley serves the Academy as chief executive officer. He also provides
representation for the AAFP to other organizations, including medical, public and private
sectors, and he serves on the Board of Directors of the AAFP Foundation, the charitable
arm of the Academy. He was recently chosen to be one of the inaugural commissioners of
the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, created as an
impartial panel to certify electronic health records and other health care information
technology products.
Henley has been an AAFP physician member and volunteer since 1973. He was on the
AAFP Board of Directors from 1991-1997, serving as chair from 1993-1994 and 1996-
1997, and as president from 1995-1996.
Prior to assuming the position of EVP, Henley was in private practice for 20 years in his
hometown of Hope Mills, N.C. He is the first practicing family physician to be named
EVP and the first AAFP past-president and board chair to serve in that position.
Henley has served on numerous AAFP committees and commissions, including the
Commission on Legislation and Governmental Affairs, Commission on Health Care
Services, Commission on Public Health and Scientific Activities, Committee on
Scientific Program, and the Committee on Resident and Student Affairs.
Henley is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel
Hill, and the university's family practice residency program. He is board certified by the
American Board of Family Practice and is an AAFP Fellow, an earned degree awarded to
family physicians for distinguished service and continuing medical education.
Henley's many appointments include serving on the editorial boards of Family Practice
News and Journal of Family Practice; the American Medical Association Current
Procedural Terminology Editorial Panel; the U.S. Congress Office of Technology
Assessment Advisory Panel on Technology, Insurance and the Health Care System; and
the North Carolina Cervical Cancer Task Force. He is currently on the board of directors
of the Annals of Family Medicine.
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