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

Neil R. Powe, M.D. , M.P.H., M.B.A. is University Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, a multidisciplinary research and training center at the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions focused on clinical and population-based research. He also is Professor of Epidemiology and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he directs the Clinical Epidemiology Program which has trained a cadre of physicians in clinical research.

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. Dr. Powe leads the Kidney Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team (Choices for Healthy Outcomes in Caring for ESRD or CHOICE) and the ESRD Quality (EQUAL) Study funded by the AHRQ and the NIH. 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 was a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Committee on Measuring, Managing and Improving Quality of Care in the ESRD Treatment Setting, the IOM Committee for Designing a National Health Care Disparities Report, the National Research Council Committee on National Statistics Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnicity Data and the IOM Pay-for-Performance Committee. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on the role of patient outcomes research in improving the quality of care in the U.S. Medicare ESRD program and on how value sciences and clinical evidence can be used in assessing new biomedical innovation. Dr. Powe is a member of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections, the National Advisory Committee for Healthcare Research and Quality, the NIH Scientific Advisory Committee for the United States Renal Data System, the Board of Scientific Councilors of the NIH Clinical Center and the Board of Scientific Advisors of the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

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. 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.