Kim Buettner is the Executive Director and has been with the Association for nine years. She recommends and particpates in board formulation of the Association's mission, goals, objectives and related policies. Ms. Buettner is responsible for the effective management of the AAKP National Office.  

Ms. Buettner originally joined AAKP in 1994 and for five years served as the Communications Director. During the dot-com boom of 1999, she explored opportunities with KidsGrowth.com, a Web site partnership with Pediatric Health Alliance, LLC, the largest pediatric medical group on the West Coast of Florida. For six years, Ms. Buettner was responsible for managing and developing five company Web sites in addition to numerous patient and parent education programs. In 2005, she rejoined AAKP as the Program Director, in 2007 was promoted to Assistant Director and 2009 became the Executive Director.

Ms. Buettner represents AAKP and speaks on numerous patient education topics to regional and national medical and patient groups. She is considered an authority on patient education via Internet mediums and has been published in Advances in Chronic Kidney Disease and PubMed.

Ms. Buettner also volunteers for the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, the only Florida-based cancer center with the NCI designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center, and is co-chair of its Patient Family Advisory Council.

Ms. Buettner graduated the University of South Florida with a double B.A. degree in Journalism and Public Relations.