Deborah E. Powell, M.D.
Deborah E. Powell, M.D., is Dean of the
Medical School and Assistant Vice President for Clinical Sciences at
the University of Minnesota. Powell is a board-certified surgical pathologist
and medical educator with more than 30 years of experience in academic
medicine. She received her medical degree from Tufts University School
of Medicine and completed her residency training at Georgetown University
Medical Center and the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH).
Powell served as the Vice Chair and Director of Diagnostic Pathology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington before being named the Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at that same institution. In 1997, she was named Executive Dean and Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs at the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She came to Minnesota in fall 2002 to lead the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is active in a number of national organizations including the American Board of Pathology and the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans. She is a former member of the Advisory Council of the National Institutes of Health Office of Research in Women’s Health and past president of the Association of American Medical Colleges Council of Deans, United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, and the American Board of Pathology. In 2000, she was elected to the distinguished National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine, which advises the federal government on national health and science policy.
