Deborah E Powell

Deborah E. Powell, M.D., Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School and Assistant Vice President for Clinical Sciences. Director since 2006. Dr. Powell is Dean of the Medical School, Assistant Vice President for Clinical Sciences, and a McKnight Presidential Leadership Chair at the University of Minnesota. Dr. 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. Dr. Powell served as the Vice Chair and Director of Diagnostic Pathology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington before being named Chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the 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 the fall of 2002 to lead the University of Minnesota Medical School. She is past president of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology, and the American Board of Pathology as well as past Chair of the Council of Deans of the Association of American Medical Colleges. She is a board member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Fairview Health System, the University of Minnesota Medical Center -- Fairview, the Minnesota Medical Foundation, the University of Minnesota Physicians and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, of which she is also a member of the finance committee. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.