Dr. Franklin K. Bufford Jr, MD

Dr. Keith Bufford was born in Opelika, Alabama and grew up on a farm 10 miles south of Auburn. He earned his BS degree from Auburn University and his Medical Degree from the University Of Alabama School Of Medicine, UAB. He completed his Family Medicine Residency in Tuscaloosa Alabama. He is currently the Medical Director of the Rural Medicine Program at Auburn University / University of Alabama School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Family Medicine and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians.

Auburn Acute Care was founded by Keith Bufford MD on August 2008 having already served as a practitioner for years in our local community. Dr. Bufford saw a need for a high quality family medical practice to serve their community with a vision of growing along with an ever increasing Auburn Opelika population. This vision came to fruition, and, as a result of this, Michael Fagan, PA-C joined them in January 2016 and then James Gauthier, MD, MPH joined in January 2017.

Both these valuable providers are helping manage the ongoing growth of their clinic so they can better serve the Auburn-Opelika Area Auburn Acute Care changed its name to Auburn Family Medicine in February 2017 to better reflect our scope of care. They are now in the process of building a brand new clinic just down the road from their present location on Dean Road in Auburn!