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Craig A Umscheid, MD, MSCEAssistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Attending Physician, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Co-Director, Community Outreach using Health System Informatics (COHSI) Core
Director, Center for Evidence-based Practice, Penn Medicine
Senior Fellow, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
Senior Scholar, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Medical Director, Clinical Decision Support, Penn Medicine
Member, Institute for Translational Medicine and Therapeutics (ITMAT)
Department: Medicine
Contact information
3535 Market Street
Mezzanine, Suite 50 Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-349-8098
Fax: 215-349-5829
Graduate Group Affiliations
Publications
Education:
BA (Biology and Society) Cornell University, 1996. MD (Medicine) Georgetown University, 2001. MSCE (Clinical Epidemiology) University of Pennsylvania, 2006. Certified (AMIA Biomedical Informatics 10x10 Program) Oregon Health and Sciences University, 2010.
Post-Graduate Training
Resident in Internal Medicine, University of Chicago Hospitals, 2001-2004. Physician-Scientist Fellow, Division of General Internal Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2004-2006.
Certifications
Permanent linkAmerican Board of Internal Medicine, 2004. Description of Research ExpertiseCraig A. Umscheid, MD, MSCE is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Director of the Penn Medicine Center for Evidence-based Practice, a hospital-based comparative effectiveness center funded by Penn to summarize, disseminate and implement scientific evidence for high impact decision making. He is a Senior Fellow in the Leonard David Institute of Health Economics, and Co-Director of the National Institutes of Health Clinical and Translational Science Award supported Health System Informatics Core, where he uses Penn data to measure the impact of best practices implemented at Penn through computerized clinical decision support (CDS). He also directs the medical student Clinical Decision Making course (MOD 312), co-directs the graduate student Systematic Reviews and Meta-analyses course (Epi 582), is Medical Director of CDS, and Chair of the Department of Medicine Quality Committee at Penn. Outside of Penn, Dr. Umscheid collaborates with organizations including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to assist with guideline development. He also serves as a Deputy Editor of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, is a member of the international Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) Working Group, is a past-member of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC), and is Past-Chair 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, a Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology from Penn's Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, where he is a Senior Scholar, and a Certificate in Biomedical Informatics from the American Medical Informatics Association 10x10 Program at Oregon Health and Sciences University. His post graduate training includes a Residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago, and a Physician-Scientist Fellowship at Penn.Description of Clinical ExpertiseDr Umscheid is board certified in internal medicine and practices hospital medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.Selected PublicationsGould CV, Umscheid CA, Agarwal RK, Kuntz G, Pegues DA, and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC): Guideline for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 31(4): 319-326, April 2010.MacCannell T, Umscheid CA, Agarwal RK, Lee I, Kuntz G, Stevenson, KB, and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee : Guideline for the prevention and control of norovirus gastroenteritis outbreaks in healthcare settings Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 32(10): 939-969, October 2011. Umscheid CA, Agarwal RK, Brennan PJ, and the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee: Updating the guideline development methodology of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee. American Journal of Infection Control 38(4): 264-73, May 2010. Umscheid CA, Williams K, Brennan PJ.: Hospital-based comparative effectiveness centers: translating research into practice to improve the quality, safety and value of patient care. Journal of General Internal Medicine 25(12): 1352-1355. December 2010. Mitchell MD, Williams K, Brennan PJ, Umscheid CA.: Integrating local data into hospital-based healthcare technology assessment: two case studies. International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 26(3): 294-300, 2010. Umscheid CA.: Should guidelines incorporate evidence on patient preferences? Journal of General Internal Medicine 24: 988-90, 2009 Notes: Editorial Lee I, Agarwal RK, Lee BY, Fishman NO, Umscheid CA: A systematic review and cost analysis of pre-operative chlorhexidine skin antiseptic versus iodine for preventing surgical site infections. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 31(12): 1219-29, Dec 2010. Mitchell MD*, Mikkelsen ME*, Umscheid CA, Lee I, Fuchs BD, Halpern SD.: A systematic review to inform institutional decisions about the use of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Critical Care Medicine 38(6): 1398-1404, June 2010 Notes: *First authors. Mitchell MD, Anderson B, Williams K, Umscheid CA. : Systematic review of heparin flushing and other interventions to maintain patency of central venous access devices. Journal of Advanced Nursing 65(10): 2007-2021, October 2009. Umscheid CA, Mitchell MD, Doshi JA, Agarwal R, Williams K, Brennan PJ.: Estimating the proportion of reasonably preventable healthcare associated infections and related mortality and costs. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. 32(2): 101-114. 2011.
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