 The faculty and staff of the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research are proud to salute Dr. Neil R. Powe. Dr. Powe served as the Welch Center Director from 1997 to 2009. During his tenure, Dr. Powe has developed an international reputation for research in prevention and screening, clinical epidemiology, patient outcomes research, health disparities, and technology assessment, primarily in kidney and cardiovascular disease, but also in diabetes, thyroid disease, depression, and eye disease. He exemplifies excellence in clinical research, and he has served as an outstanding teacher and mentor for scores of mentees in clinical research, ranging from undergraduate students to full professors, who have moved on to pursue successful careers in clinical research around the country.
In addition to leading the Welch Center, Dr. Powe has served as Deputy Director for Research, Education and Career Development in the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research, Director of the Clinical Research Scholars Program and the Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Program, as well as Co-Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Outside of Johns Hopkins, he has served as a National Advisory Committee member for both the Robert Wood Johnson Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program and the Robert Wood Johnson Physician Faculty Scholars Program, acting as a mentor for program participants as they progress through their research fellowships. Dr. Powe’s altruistic devotion to mentorship has placed him among the very best mentors and educators in the nation. Dr. Powe’s leadership as a clinical researcher is exemplified by his appointment to several prestigious national committees and organizations, including the Institute of Medicine, the National Advisory Committee for the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality, the Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Human Research Protections, 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. He has testified before the US Congress on the role of patient outcomes research in improving the quality of care in the US Medicare ESRD program and on how value sciences and clinical evidence can be used in assessing new biomedical innovation. He is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Garabed Eknoyan Award from the National Kidney Foundation, 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. At Johns Hopkins, he was recognized as a University Distinguished Service Professor, and the inaugural James F. Fries Professor. Dr. Powe’s passion for excellence in patient-oriented research, his warm, approachable manner, his dedicated collegiality, and his joy in helping trainees learn and succeed, have made him an inspiration to a generation of Hopkins scholars. Under his stewardship, the Welch Center has more than doubled its size and funding and established a worldwide reputation, not only for research productivity, but for a unique academic culture of teamwork and mutual support. We wish him the very best in his new endeavors as Chief of Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital, vice-Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California San Francisco, and the Constance Wofsy Distinguished Professor of Medicine.
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