Dr. Eggers is the Program Director for Kidney and Urology Epidemiology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He oversees the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), the Urologic Diseases in America (UDA) project, the Boston Area Community Health (BACH) Study, the Frequent Hemodialysis Network (FHN) Clinical Trial, the NIDDK data repository, and the RAND Interstitial Cystitis Epidemiology (RICE) survey. In addition, he oversees a variety of epidemiological grants in the area of kidney and urologic diseases.

Prior to joining NIDDK, Dr. Eggers was Director of the Division of Beneficiary Research in the Office of Strategic Planning at the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA). He worked on research and evaluation studies at HCFA since 1978. He has conducted studies and evaluations of Medicare enrollment in HMOs, the Prospective Payment System, Physician Payment Reform, and the hospice benefit. His major area of expertise is the End Stage Renal Disease Program. His research on ESRD includes epidemiological studies of mortality and morbidity among ESRD beneficiaries, transplantation studies and cost studies of dialysis and transplantation. He has over 70 publications concerning various issues relating to the Medicare program, and ESRD in particular.