Moderator

Panel Discussion: Vision for the Future

Saturday Nov. 17, 11h00-12h30

Born in Austria, Dr. Frederick H. Lowy moved to Canada at the age of 12 and graduated ‎from McGill University in 1959 with an MD, CM. After postgraduate training in internal ‎medicine and psychiatry in Montreal and Cincinnati he returned to McGill and the Royal ‎Victoria Hospital as a psychiatric consultant. Subsequent psychiatric posts included ‎department head at the Ottawa Civic Hospital and Toronto’s Clarke Institute of ‎Psychiatry of which he was director, at the same time Professor and Chairman of the ‎University of Toronto Department of Psychiatry. He went on to become Dean of ‎Medicine and founder of the Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto.‎

Dr. Lowy is a highly respected academic leader. When he returned to Montreal in 1995 ‎to take up the position of President of Concordia University, "the university was still ‎reeling from the 1992 fatal shootings of four engineering professors and, in the aftermath, ‎a damaged reputation and low morale. The start of severe cuts in government funding ‎added to the university’s challenges. Ten years later, he left Concordia thriving with five ‎new buildings, hundreds of new professors, updated programs and solid enrolment. ‎His leadership set the university on a confident course towards new levels of ‎achievement." ‎(Concordia University Magazine, June 2005).

He was awarded Honorary Doctor of Law degrees by both the University of Toronto and ‎McGill University.‎‎ Frederick H. Lowy was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000.