Dr. Frederick H. Lowy, O.C.
Director
Sauvé Scholars Foundation
Photo by Christian Fleury
An experienced educator and academic administrator, Dr. Lowy was President and vice-chancellor of Concordia University 1995 – 2005. He served as Interim Executive Director of the Sauvé Scholars Program (2007-2008) following the tragic death of the Founding Executive Director, James Wright. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Sauvé Scholars Foundation in May 2008. He is Senior Advisor to the President of the Trudeau Foundation.
Born in 1933 in Grosspetersdorf, Austria, Fred Lowy moved to Montreal at age 13 and attended the legendary Baron Byng High School (the alma mater of novelist Mordecai Richler, Supreme Court Justice Morris Fish and geneticist Leonard Pinsky, to name a few). Following medical school at McGill University and a period as a family doctor on Montreal's West Island, Dr. Lowy started his career in psychiatry in Cincinnati, Ohio and returned to McGill and the Allan Memorial Institute in 1965. He later became Chief of Psychiatry at the Ottawa Civic Hospital, then became a professor in the University of Toronto's Department of Psychiatry from 1974 to 1995, where he served as department chair. He was Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and founded the Centre for Bioethics at the University of Toronto before returning to Montreal in 1995.
Frederick H. Lowy was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2000.
