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Neil R.
Powe
M.D.
M.P.H.
M.B.A.

Scientific Advisory Committee
Pinned
Academic
Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor, University of California San Francisco
Professional
Vice-Chair of Medicine, University of California San Francisco
Chief of Medicine, Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Sites of Practice
UCSF

Contact

University of California San Francisco
505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143

E: neil.powe@ucsf.edu

Research Interests

  • Patient-oriented Research
  • Clinical Epidemiology
  • Outcomes and Effectiveness Research

Research and Training

Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
B.A. Biochemical Sciences

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
M.D. Medicine

Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA
M.P.H. Epidemiology

Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Resident, Internal Medicine

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fellow, Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
M.B.A. Health Care Systems

University of California, San Francisco, CA
2018 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training

Awards and Honors

TIME 100 Health
2024 Most Influential People in Health

American Academy of Arts & Sciences
2024 Member

Association of American Medical Colleges
2023 Herbert W. Nickens Award for Promoting Justice in Medical Education and Health Care Equity

Society of General Internal Medicine
2023 Robert J Glaser Award for Exceptional Contributions in Research, Education, Leadership and Mentoring

Royal College of Physicians of London
2022 Fellow

And many more

Overview

Dr. Powe serves as leader of the University of California San Francisco Medicine Service at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, a leading Medicine department in a public hospital with strong basic, clinical, and health services research programs focused on major diseases affecting diverse patients locally, nationally and globally. His interests are in improving discovery, education, clinical practice, and organizational effectiveness in medicine, enhancing scholarship and multidisciplinary collaboration, and developing future talent and leadership in the health professions. He has a particular interest in cultivating young scientists who are addressing major problems in science, health, and healthcare delivery.

His primary intellectual pursuits involve kidney disease patient-oriented research, epidemiology, disparities, and outcomes and effectiveness research. His research unites Medicine and Public Health with the goals of saving and improving the quality of human lives. It involves the knowledge of fundamental discoveries in biology and clinical medicine to advance the health of patients and populations affected by kidney disease.