Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

Professor & Vice Chair
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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 and clinical practice in medicine, making academic organizations function better, 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 health care delivery.

His primary intellectual pursuits involve kidney disease patient-oriented research, epidemiology and outcomes and effectiveness research. His 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 and populations affected by kidney disease.

Dr. Powe earned his medical degree at Harvard Medical School and his master’s in public health at Harvard School of Public Health. He completed residency, was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and completed his master’s in business administration at the University of Pennsylvania.

Publications

New Creatinine- and Cystatin C-Based Equations to Estimate GFR without Race.

The New England journal of medicine

Inker LA, Eneanya ND, Coresh J, Tighiouart H, Wang D, Sang Y, Crews DC, Doria A, Estrella MM, Froissart M, Grams ME, Greene T, Grubb A, Gudnason V, Gutiérrez OM, Kalil R, Karger AB, Mauer M, Navis G, Nelson RG, Poggio ED, Rodby R, Rossing P, Rule AD, Selvin E, Seegmiller JC, Shlipak MG, Torres VE, Yang W, Ballew SH, Couture SJ, Powe NR, Levey AS, Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration

Solid-organ transplantation in older adults: current status and future research.

American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons

Abecassis M, Bridges ND, Clancy CJ, Dew MA, Eldadah B, Englesbe MJ, Flessner MF, Frank JC, Friedewald J, Gill J, Gries C, Halter JB, Hartmann EL, Hazzard WR, Horne FM, Hosenpud J, Jacobson P, Kasiske BL, Lake J, Loomba R, Malani PN, Moore TM, Murray A, Nguyen MH, Powe NR, Reese PP, Reynolds H, Samaniego MD, Schmader KE, Segev DL, Shah AS, Singer LG, Sosa JA, Stewart ZA, Tan JC, Williams WW, Zaas DW, High KP

Association of eGFR-Related Loci Identified by GWAS with Incident CKD and ESRD.

PLoS genetics

Böger CA, Gorski M, Li M, Hoffmann MM, Huang C, Yang Q, Teumer A, Krane V, O'Seaghdha CM, Kutalik Z, Wichmann HE, Haak T, Boes E, Coassin S, Coresh J, Kollerits B, Haun M, Paulweber B, Köttgen A, Li G, Shlipak MG, Powe N, Hwang SJ, Dehghan A, Rivadeneira F, Uitterlinden A, Hofman A, Beckmann JS, Krämer BK, Witteman J, Bochud M, Siscovick D, Rettig R, Kronenberg F, Wanner C, Thadhani RI, Heid IM, Fox CS, Kao WH

World Kidney Day 2011.

Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN

Hostetter TH, Kochis DJ, Shaffer RN, Chertow G, Harmon WE, Klotman PE, Powe NR, Sedor JR, Smedberg PC, Watnick S, Winkelmayer WC

MYH9 is associated with nondiabetic end-stage renal disease in African Americans.

Nature genetics

Kao WH, Klag MJ, Meoni LA, Reich D, Berthier-Schaad Y, Li M, Coresh J, Patterson N, Tandon A, Powe NR, Fink NE, Sadler JH, Weir MR, Abboud HE, Adler SG, Divers J, Iyengar SK, Freedman BI, Kimmel PL, Knowler WC, Kohn OF, Kramp K, Leehey DJ, Nicholas SB, Pahl MV, Schelling JR, Sedor JR, Thornley-Brown D, Winkler CA, Smith MW, Parekh RS

Value of the periodic health evaluation.

Evidence report/technology assessment

Boulware LE, Barnes GJ, Wilson RF, Phillips K, Maynor K, Hwang C, Marinopoulos S, Merenstein D, Richardson-McKenzie P, Bass EB, Powe NR, Daumit GL