Jeffrey J. Geppert is a Senior Research Leader at Battelle Memorial Institute in the Health Business Unit.  He has served for the past nine years as the clinical quality measure (CQM) subject matter expert on the Measures Management System (MMS) contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and before that was the project director on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Support for Quality Indicators contract for ten years.  Jeffrey also serves as the measurement science team leader on the National Consensus Development Contract (NCDC) with CMS.  For the past four years, he has provided technical assistance to the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation grantees on the development of CQM for diagnostic performance.