Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H.

Neil R. Powe, M.D., M.P.H., M.B.A. is Chief of Medical Services at San Francisco General Hospital and the Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor and Vice-Chair of Medicine, University of California San Francisco.   His research has involved clinical epidemiology, health services research and patient outcomes research using prospective methods of randomized controlled trials and cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analysis, meta-analysis, retrospective analyses of administrative databases and survey research.  He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in chronic kidney disease. Dr. Powe is author of more than 300 articles including studies of early referral of chronic kidney disease patients, patient-physician contact in dialysis care, cost-effectiveness of screening for proteinuria, racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use among CKD patients, effect of treatment modalities on survival, outcomes of dialysis care by type of ownership, access to transplantation and organ donation.

Dr. Powe trained in internal medicine, epidemiology and health services research, receiving his M.D. degree from Harvard Medical School, M.P.H. degree from Harvard School of Public Health, and M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar. Dr. Powe is a member of the Institute of Medicine, American Society of Clinical Investigation, the Association of American Physicians, the American Society of Epidemiology and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is chair of the National Advisory Committee of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.  Among his honors are the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association for Clinical Research Training.

Prior to his position at UCSF, Dr. Powe was the inaugural James F. Fries Professor of Medicine and University Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine where he directed the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research.