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Dr. Neil R. Powe Presented the 18th Bowman Society Lecture
Neil R. Powe , MD, MPH, MBA
Moving Forward to Conquer Health Disparities: Let’s Get Serious
Thursday, September 18, 2008
5:30–6:30 p.m.
Duchossis Center for Advanced Medicine (DCAM)
5758 S. Maryland Ave., 4th Floor Atrium
September 26, 2008—Neil R. Powe, MD, MPH, MBA, Distinguished University Service Professor of Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine presented the 18th Bowman Society Lecture on September 18th. Dr. Powe is the first African-American to be promoted to full professor in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins in its over 100 year history. He is also 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. Dr. Powe 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 and has trained hundreds of fellow clinical researchers and medical students in the past two decades. His work on the population level has reached millions of patients.
Dr. Powe is an expert in chronic kidney disease. His work has examined health disparities and quality of care for cardiovascular and kidney disease 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 has studied racial differences in cardiovascular procedure use and kidney transplantation as well as the relation between volume, technology and outcomes of patients with myocardial infarction and thrombolytic therapy in the elderly. Dr. Powe has also led the Choices for Healthy Outcomes in Caring for ESRD (CHOICE) study funded by AHRQ and the ESRD Quality (EQUAL) Study by the NIH. He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in chronic disease and methods of assessing resource allocation in health and health care. Dr. Powe is author of more than 295 articles.
Dr. Powe trained in internal medicine, epidemiology and health services research, receiving his MD degree from Harvard Medical School, MPH degree from Harvard School of Public Health, and MBA 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 and fellow in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and has served on a number of its committees including the Committee on Paying for Performance and Conflicts of Medicine in Medical Research, Education and Clinical Practice. He has testified before the U.S. Congress on the role of patient outcomes research in improving the quality of care and on value science as a means to assess medical practice. Dr. Powe is the recipient of several national honors including the Garabed Eknoyan Award from the National Kidney Foundation (2004), the John M. Eisenberg National Award for Career Achievement in Research from the Society of General Internal Medicine (2005) and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Association for Clinical Research Training (2007).
The Bowman Society lectures highlight medical research issues and topics that are important to the health care of minority communities. Sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Bowman Society Lecture Series commenced in 2005 through the generous support of Dr. James E. Bowman, Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, and the Biological Sciences Division’s first tenured African-American Professor.
For more information on past lecturers, please visit the Bowman Society page.
