Peter W. Groeneveld, MD, MS is Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine, a Staff Physician and Chair of the Research and Development Committee at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz (Philadelphia) VA Medical Center, Director of the VA's Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, and the founding Director of Penn’s Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research Center. A general internist and health services researcher with an extensive background in engineering and technology development, Dr. Groeneveld has been a leading investigator in cardiovascular outcomes research for the past fifteen years. His research agenda is focused on the adoption, use, outcomes, economics, and social consequences of new medical technologies. Dr. Groeneveld has been or is currently the Principal Investigator on nine large (R-01 or equivalent) grants that have explored the impact of new technologies on U.S. health care, and he has co-authored over 140 peer-reviewed publications including articles in JAMA, Annals of Internal Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, Health Affairs, and leading journals in clinical cardiology such as Circulation, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, and JAMA Cardiology. Dr. Groeneveld has served on numerous NIH and VA Study Sections, and he is a past Chair of the Oversight Committee for the VA's Health Economics Resource Center. He also served as Senior Guest Editor for Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, the nation's leading peer reviewed journal for cardiovascular outcomes research. He is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and a Fellow of the American Heart Association.