Dr. Umscheid is a practicing general internist and clinical epidemiologist whose career has been dedicated to improving the quality, safety and value of patient care by developing, implementing and evaluating systems and methods to integrate research evidence into clinical practice across provider organizations. This work has been supported by AHRQ, PCORI, CDC and NIH, and has been described in over 100 peer-reviewed publications and cited over 5000 times. He co-led an AHRQ Evidence-based Practice Center for over five years, and is a former member of AHRQ’s Patient Centered Clinical Decision Support Learning Network Steering Committee, a former Chair of the PCORI Advisory Panel on Healthcare Delivery and Disparities Research, a past-member of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), and a former Deputy Editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine.