University of Pennsylvania
3535 Market Street
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Philadelphia
PAUSA
19104
Biographical Sketch: 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. He is a co-author of multiple CDC guidelines, has published numerous systemic reviews and original studies, and has lectured extensively on evidence-based medicine. Dr. Umscheid is also 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, 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.