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October 5, 2001,
12:00 p.m. Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA is 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,
an interdisciplinary 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 School of Hygiene and Public Health, where
he directs the Clinical Epidemiology Program and the Johns Hopkins Evidence-Based
Practice Center.
Dr. Powe's research has also involved clinical epidemiology, health services
research and patient outcomes research in renal and cardiovascular disease.
His research has used prospective methods of randomized controlled trials
and cohort studies, cost-effectiveness analysis, meta-analysis, retrospective
analyses of administrative databases and survey research. Dr. Powe has
published more than 140 articles on these topics. Dr. Powe is principal investigator of the CHOICE study, an End-Stage
Renal Disease Patient Outcomes Research Team funded by the Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality and the ESRD Quality (EQUAL) Study. He
has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in chronic
kidney disease patients using data from prospective studies, the United
States Renal Data System (USRDS), Medicare records and patient surveys.
Dr. Powe has also studied the relation between volume, technology and
outcomes of patients with myocardial infarction, thrombolytic therapy
in the elderly, racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use in
patients with chronic kidney disease, the impact of prepublication dissemination
of clinical trial results on health care utilization and the relation
between burden of disease and NIH funding. Dr. Powe was a member of the
Institute of Medicine Committee on Measuring, Managing and Improving Quality
of Care in the ESRD Treatment Setting. 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 clinical evidence
can be used in coverage decisions for new medical technology. Dr. Powe has trained in internal medicine and epidemiology. He received
his MD degree from Harvard Medical School, his MPH degree from the Harvard
School of Public Health, and his MBA in health care from the Wharton Graduate
School of the University of Pennsylvania. He completed his internship
and residency in internal medicine at the Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania. He was also a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar and fellow
in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Powe is a member of the American Society of Clinical Investigation
and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is the recipient
of several national awards including the best article of year (2000) by
the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy and one of
the leading African-American physicians in the U.S. (2001) by Black Enterprise
magazine. |
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