Neil R. Powe

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Neil R. Powe
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Neil R. Powe is an American professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the chief of medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Previously he was professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research has mainly related to kidney disease, cardiovascular disease and health disparities. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Biography

Neil R. Powe attended Central High School and is an alumnus in the school's Hall of Fame. [5] He earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Princeton University, a medical degree at Harvard Medical School and a master’s in public health at Harvard School of Public Health. [5] He completed residency in internal medicine, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and completed a master’s in business administration at the University of Pennsylvania. [5]

In 1986 Powe joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health, [6] where he became the James F. Fries University distinguished professor. [2]

In 2009, he joined the University of California San Francisco. He leads the University of California San Francisco Medicine Service at the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. [7] In 2020, he co-authored a paper on the implications of removing race adjustment in kidney function calculations. [8] In 2022, he received a Heros and Heart award from the San Francisco General Foundation for his work on health equity. [9] In 2024, he was named by Time100Health as one of the most influential people in health. [10]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

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