Peter (“Pete”) W. Groeneveld, MD, MS is Professor of Medicine, with tenure, at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine and a primary care physician at Philadelphia’s Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center. He is the Director of the VA’s Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion (CHERP), a VA Health Services Research & Development Center of Innovation, and he is the Founding Director of Penn’s Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality, and Evaluative Research (CAVOQER) Center. He is Chair of the VA’s Research and Development Committee, and he is Co-Director of Penn’s Master of Science in Health Policy Research (MSHP) program. Dr. Groeneveld’s research is focused on the quality, outcomes, costs, and equity of high-technology cardiovascular care, and his methodological expertise is in the analysis of a wide variety of health care data, including administrative claims, clinical registries, electronic medical records, and surveys. His research has been funded by the VA, NIH, AHRQ, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and he has co-authored over 150 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Groeneveld is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, a Fellow of the American College of Physicians, and an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI).

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Peter Groeneveld, MD, MS
- Director, Cardiovascular Outcomes, Quality and Evaluative Research Center
- Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine
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