Frederick Lowy

Hans Frederick Lowy, OC ( born January 1, 1933, Großpetersdorf, Austria ) is a Canadian psychiatrist and President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University.

Life and career

Lowy was born in 1933 in the Austrian Großpetersdorf. At the age of 13, he moved to Montreal. After graduating from Baron Byng High School Lowy studied medicine at McGill University and graduated in 1959 from the study. As a student, he was editor of the student newspaper McGill Daily. In the late 1960s he was a psychiatric consultant at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Neurological Institute, a predecessor of the McGill University Health Centre.

Lowy moved to Toronto in 1974 and became director of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, a psychiatric hospital, and as successor by Robin CA Hunter Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. He worked from 1980 to 1987 as Dean of the Medical Faculty. He was the founder and first director of the Center for Bioethics (now University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics ). In 1995, he returned to Montreal to become the fourth Rector and Vice- Chancellor of Concordia University (2004 the title to " President and Vice-Chancellor " was changed ). He held this position until August 1, 2005.

Lowy was the first chairman of the Canadian Tri - Council ( Medical Research Council, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council ), Working Group on Ethics of Research Involving Human Subjects (1994-1995 ) and Deputy Chairman of the Hospital Restructuring Committee Metro Toronto District Health Council ( 1994-1995). He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and a life member of the Canadian Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists. He is also a member of the Canadian Medical Association and the International Psychoanalytical Association. Lowy was as a physician at the Cincinnati General Hospital, the Ottawa Civic Hospital and the Toronto General Hospital operates. He has also worked as a consultant for numerous research institutes and hospitals.

Lowy has given numerous lectures and published writings. His most recent publications examine ethical questions that modern doctors and health scientists. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Board of Trade and the Raide cents ( Montreal), Vice - President of the Conference of Rectors and principals of Quebec, and was a member of the board of the National Ballet of Canada. He was a trustee at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, St. Michael 's Hospital and Toronto Hospital, and the Ontario Cancer Institute. On behalf of the Government of Ontario, he led from 1988 to 1990 a study of the pharmaceutical industry and has written numerous articles for scientific publications, including the publication of the Canadian Journal of Psychiatry.

Lowy sits on the Board of Dundee Corporation, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Jewish General Hospital, Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Sauvé Scholars Foundation.

Lowy from 1995 to 2005, President and Vice - Chancellor of Concordia University.

He served as interim director of the Sauvé Scholars Foundation (2007-2008) and was elected in May 2008 in the Board of the Sauvé Scholars Foundation. He is Senior Advisor to the President of the Trudeau Foundation.

On 21 January 2011, he returned to the controversial departure of Judith Woodsworth interim basis back in the position of President of Concordia University.

In 2000 he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Toronto (1998), McGill University ( 2001) and Concordia University ( 2008). Lowy is married to Mary Kay Lowy ( Dr. MK O'Neil ). He has four children, David, Eric, Adam, and Sarah, and eight grandchildren.

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  • Psychiatrist
  • Physician ( 20th century )
  • Health professionals ( 21st century)
  • University President
  • Person ( McGill University)
  • University teachers ( University of Toronto )
  • University teachers ( Concordia University)
  • Officer of the Order of Canada
  • Honorary doctorate from McGill University
  • Honorary doctorate from the University of Toronto
  • Honorary doctor of a university in Canada
  • Canadian
  • Born in 1933
  • Man
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