Neil

R.

Powe

,

MD

Dr. Powe's work 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 who ultimately make up a larger population of patients affected by a disease. Dr. Powe has worked in the areas of prevention and screening, clinical epidemiology, patient outcomes research, technology assessment, and cost-effectiveness analysis. He has worked on many important diseases with substantial morbidity including kidney diseas as well as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, thyroid disease, depression, and eye disease. He has also conducted projects on health disparities, care management, access to care, and quality of care. His 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 is principal investigator of a Center for Disease Control and Prevention sponsored study to establish a national surveillance system for chronic kidney disease in the United States. He also led the CHOICE study, a national study of patient outcomes in chronic kidney disease funded by the agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). He has extensive experience in developing and measuring outcomes in this population using data from prospective studies, the United States Renal Data System (USRDS), Medicare records, and patient surveys. Dr. Powe has also studied resource allocation issues in health and health care disparities.