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Lawrie William Powell AC (born 1934) is an Australian medical researcher, specialising in gastroenterology and hepatology. Powell graduated from Brisbane State High School in 1952. He commenced work at the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital as a senior medical student in 1958 prior to commencing a period as a hepatologist at the hospital. After working at the hospital for sixty years, Powell retired in 2018. Powell made substantial contributions into the research of liver disease, particularly cirrhosis and hemochromatosis, which includes authoring over 400 publications.