David C. Kendrick, MD, MPH, FACP chairs the Department of Medical Informatics at the University of Oklahoma’s School of Community Medicine, and serves the OU Health Sciences Center as the Assistant Provost for Strategic Planning. The Department of Medical Informatics provides clinical information systems support to OU Physicians as well as analytics services for clinical operations and research. In addition, the Department operates a Health Access Network for the Oklahoma Healthcare Authority, providing care management services, quality improvement support, and technology for Oklahoma physicians serving more than 200,000 patients across Oklahoma. He also holds the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Medical Informatics. As a medical student at OU, Dr. Kendrick founded MedUnison an Oklahoma-based company that provides enterprise electronic health records, closed-loop referral, and telemedicine support and subsequently served as medical director at Archimedes, a California-based company utilizing advanced mathematics and modeling methods to simulate human disease, treatment, and costs to enable better decisions on care, costs, and policy.

In 2009, Dr. Kendrick partnered with dozens of healthcare organizations to create MyHealth Access Network, Oklahoma’s non-profit health information exchange, which ensures that every Oklahoman’s complete health record is securely available where and when they need it for care and health decision-making. MyHealth serves more than 4 million patients and is focused on improving health in Oklahoma and beyond by implementing a community-wide infrastructure for healthcare IT and secure records exchange. MyHealth was one of ONC's Beacon Communities and continues to serve as the Convener and Data Aggregator for Oklahoma's innovative healthcare transformation models, including the Comprehensive Primary Care initiative, CPC+, and Primary Care First, which have brought hundreds of millions of dollars in new investment to primary care in Oklahoma, as well as the Bridging Organization for the Accountable Health Community program which has offered social needs screening to more than 2.4M patients in Oklahoma and addressed hundreds of thousands of social needs before and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Kendrick has lead MyHealth’s response efforts, gathering and organizing the relevant COVID-testing, hospitalization, and immunization data to provide regular briefings to the Oklahoma State Department of Health, the Governors Response Team, Tribal Health Systems, the press, and the general public.

Dr. Kendrick is the immediate past chair of the Board of Directors for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), which developed the first comprehensive quality measurement programs with HEDIS, as well as certification programs for Patient Centered Medical Homes and Specialty Care. Dr. Kendrick is also a member of the board of the Patient Centered Data Home program and previously served on both the boards of the Strategic HIE Collaborative and the Networks for Regional Health Improvement before their recent merger to become the Civitas Networks for Health. Dr. Kendrick served as the Senior Counsel for Interoperability to National Health IT Coordinator, Dr. Karen DeSalvo, and continues to serve as a consultant to the Office of the National Coordinator as well as CMS and other State and Federal Agencies.

David lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife, Christie, who is also a physician, and their four children.