Frederick Lowy

Frederick Hans Lowy OC, MD, LLD


President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University
In office August 15, 1995 – July 31, 2005
Preceded by	Charles Bertrand (interim)
Succeeded by	Claude Lajeunesse
President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University (interim)
In office February 2, 2011 – July 31, 2012
Preceded by	Judith Woodsworth
Succeeded by	Alan Shepard
Personal details
Born	1933 (age 83) Großpetersdorf, Austria
Alma mater	McGill University
Occupation	Psychiatrist, medical researcher

Frederick Hans Lowy, OC (born 1933) is a Canadian medical educator and former President and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University.

Born in Großpetersdorf, Austria in 1933, Lowy moved to Montreal at age 13. After graduating from Baron Byng High School, Lowy studied medicine at McGill University, graduating in 1959. While at McGill University, he assisted Donald Ewan Cameron on Human subject research as part of Cameron's Project MKULTRA research for "KUBARK" manuals. As an undergraduate, he was managing editor of the McGill Daily student newspaper. He was a psychiatric consultant at the Royal Victoria Hospital and Neurological Institute in the late 1960s.

Lowy moved to Toronto in 1974 to become Psychiatrist-in-Chief and Director of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry and professor at, and chair of, the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry, succeeding Robin C.A. Hunter. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Medicine from 1980 to 1987. He was the founder and first Director of the University's Centre for Bioethics (now University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics). In 1995 he returned to Montreal to become the 4th Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Concordia University. (In 2004 the English title of the position was changed to "President and Vice-Chancellor".) He held this post until August 1, 2005.