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Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA is the Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor, Vice-Chair of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and Chief of Medical Services at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Powe's research unites medicine and public health with the goals of saving and improving quality of human lives. It involves the knowledge of fundamental discoveries in biology and clinical medicine to advance the health of patients who ultimately make up a larger population of patients affected by a disease. Dr. Powe studies chronic kidney disease as well as many important diseases with substantial morbidity in areas of prevention and screening, clinical epidemiology, patient outcomes research, technology assessment, and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in kidney disease using data from prospective studies, the United States Renal Data System, Medicare records, and patient surveys.

Dr. Powe is principal investigator of a Center for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored study to establish a national surveillance system for chronic kidney disease in the United States. He also leads the Choices for Healthy Outcomes in Caring for ESRD (CHOICE) study, a national study of patient outcomes in the treatment of chronic kidney disease funded by the agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. This was one of the first large prospective studies of incident dialysis patients. In his most recent NIH grant supporting the CHOICE cohort he is examining the role of small organic solutes retained after hemodialysis and their effect on patient outcomes. This project seeks to identify substances that lead to toxicity and poor outcomes in end stage renal disease. Dr. Powe also conducts projects on health disparities, care management, access to care, quality of care and resource allocation.

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