Neil R. Powe is an American professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and the chief of medicine at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
[5] He earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Princeton University, a medical degree at Harvard Medical School and a master’s in public health at Harvard School of Public Health.
[5] In 1986 Powe joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Bloomberg School of Public Health,[6] where he became the James F. Fries University distinguished professor.
[7] In 2020, he co-authored a paper on the implications of removing race adjustment in kidney function calculations.
[8] In 2022, he received a Heros and Heart award from the San Francisco General Foundation for his work on health equity.