Dr. Umscheid is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is Co-Director of the Penn Health System's Center for Evidence-based Practice (CEP).  CEP is one of the only academic hospital-based health technology assessment centers in the U.S., and is funded by the Penn Health System Chief Medical Officer to support patient care quality and safety at Penn through evidence-based practice.  To do this, CEP summarizes scientific evidence for decision making at Penn about high impact drugs, devices and processes of care, and fosters evidence-based collaborative enterprises within and outside of Penn.  Dr. Umscheid is also a Co-Director of the NIH CTSA supported Health System Informatics Core, where he uses Penn data to measure the impact of best practices implemented through computerized decision support.  His areas of research interest and expertise include evidence-based medicine, health technology assessment, guideline development, clinical epidemiology, implementation science, computerized decision support, and hospital medicine.  He has updated the guideline methodology of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), the committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on infection control practices and publishes infection control guidelines on their behalf.  As part of this process, he has co-authored upcoming guidelines from the CDC.  He has also published numerous systemic reviews and original studies, and has lectured extensively on evidence-based medicine.  In addition, Dr. Umscheid is active in the education of Penn medical students and residents while attending on the wards and lecturing in the classroom, and Co-Directs the Medical Student Clinical Decision Making Course.  He is an Associate Editor of Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety, the official journal of the International Society for Pharmacoepidemiology, and is a member of the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group, the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), and is Chair-Elect of the Society of General Internal Medicine's Evidence-based Medicine Task Force.  Dr. Umscheid received his undergraduate degree from Cornell, his medical degree from Georgetown, and a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from Penn's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, where he is an Associate Scholar.  His post graduate training includes a Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago, and a Physician-Scientist Fellowship at Penn.  He resides in Philadelphia with his wife and daughter.