Craig A. Umscheid, M.D., M.S., is a hospitalist and clinical epidemiologist who serves as the Director of the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (CQuIPS) at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  He practices clinically at Georgetown University Hospital, where he is an Adjunct Professor.  Prior to joining AHRQ, Dr. Umscheid was an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago, where he served as the Chief Quality and Innovation Officer. He began his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he became an Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Quality and Safety for the Department of Medicine, and was a co-founder and Director of Penn Medicine’s Center for Evidence-based Practice.  His career has been dedicated to disseminating and implementing research evidence into clinical practice to support patient care quality and safety. This work has been supported by AHRQ, PCORI, CDC and NIH, and has been described in over 125 peer-reviewed publications and cited over 10,000 times.