- Daniel H. Lowenstein (physician)
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Daniel H. Lowenstein, M.D. Nationality United States Fields Neurology Institutions University of California, San Francisco Alma mater Harvard Medical School (M.D.) Notable awards Numerous teaching awards; American Epilepsy Society Basic Research Award (2001) Daniel H. Lowenstein, M.D., is Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, and Director of Physician-Scientist and Education Training Programs for the UCSF School of Medicine. He has served as Dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School, and has been president of the American Epilepsy Society (2003-4).[1] He has won numerous awards for his teaching.
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Education and academic career
Lowenstein graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Colorado (1973), obtained an M.S. degree in Man-Environment Relations from Pennsylvania State University (1978), and received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1983.[2] At the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), he completed an internship in Pediatrics (1983–84), a residency in Neurology (1984–87), a two-year fellowship in Stanley Prusiner's Laboratory, and then became a faculty member at UCSF in the Department of Neurology, where was the Robert B. and Ellinor Aird Professor of Neurology from 1998-2000. While at UCSF, he established the UCSF Epilepsy Research Laboratory, which he currently directs.[3]
From 2000 to 2003, Lowenstein served as Dean for Medical Education at Harvard Medical School (HMS). While there, he oversaw a re-organization of curricular governance, the creation of a new educational technology program, the establishment of the HMS Academy, a novel structure for the support of the school’s educational mission. In 2003, he returned to his current position at UCSF.
Lowenstein recently completed a 4-year term as a member of the Advisory Council of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, which helps to define scientific policy at the national level.[2]
Awards
Lowenstein has received numerous awards, for his medical school teaching, both at UCSF and nationally. His national awards include:
- The American Medical Student Association (AMSA) National Golden Apple for Teaching Excellence Award (1997), which is given to one medical school teacher in the country each year.[2]
- The American Neurological Association (ANA) named him the first recipient of the ANA Distinguished Teacher Award (1997).[2]
- The Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award from the American Association of Medical Colleges (1998).[2][4]
At UCSF, he has received several teaching awards from the 1st and 2nd year classes for which they nominate their faculty each year. These include multiple awards for "A Major Contribution to Teaching," "Outstanding Lecture," "Outstanding Lecture Series," and "An Outstanding Role Model." He also received the 1992 UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award, the 1993 and 1998 UCSF Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching, the UCSF Class of 1995 John V. Carbone Award for Excellence in Teaching, and Faculty Teaching Awards in 1994 and 1996. Lowenstein has given the Keynote Address for graduating students at Commencement Ceremonies at UCSF in 1994, 1996, 1997 and 2000. In 1996, the UCSF students awarded him the American Medical Student Association (AMSA) Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching.[2]
Lowenstein has also advocated for cultural diversity issues at UCSF, for which he received the 1998 Black Student Health Association’s Faculty Award, the 1998 UCSF Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award, and the 2006 Holly Smith Award for Exceptional Service to the UCSF School of Medicine.[2]
For his research work, Lowenstein received the American Epilepsy Society’s 2001 Basic Research Award, given each year to one basic science investigator whose research "contributes importantly to understanding and conquering epilepsy."[2]
Research
Lowenstein's clinical and research interests include the management and treatment of patients with status epilepticus (unusually prolonged seizures) and understanding the genetic factors thought to underlie many epilepsies (idiopathic epilepsies).
He has been the Principal Investigator of a prospective, multi-centered, NIH-sponsored clinical trial that examined helped define the optimal therapy for status epilepticus patients in pre-hospital settings. He is the director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, and a leader of a national effort—The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project—designed to make new discoveries in this area. He is also the director of the Physician-Scientist Education and Training Programs for the UCSF School of Medicine.
His efforts in epilepsy research have been recognized by the American Epilepsy Society’s 2001 Basic Research Award, an honor given each year to the foremost basic science investigator whose research contributes importantly to understanding and conquering epilepsy.
Publications
Lowenstein has published over 80 scholarly professional journal articles[5] that include
- Daniel H. Lowenstein, Stephen M. Massa, Michael C. Rowbotham, Stephen D. Collins, Howard E. McKinney & Roger P. Simon (1987). "Acute neurologic and psychiatric complications associated with cocaine abuse". American Journal of Medicine 83 (5): 841–846. doi:10.1016/0002-9343(87)90640-1. PMID 3674091.
- Daniel H. Lowenstein, Pak H. Chan & Michael F. Miles (1991). "The stress protein response in cultured neurons: Characterization and evidence for a protective role in excitotoxicity". Neuron (Cell Press) 7 (6): 1053–1060. doi:10.1016/0896-6273(91)90349-5. PMID 1764242.
- Daniel H. Lowenstein & Brian K. Alldredge (1998). "Status epilepticus". The New England Journal of Medicine 338 (14): 970. doi:10.1056/NEJM199804023381407. PMID 9521986. http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/extract/338/14/970.
- Barney J. Stern, Daniel H. Lowenstein & Lori A. Schuh (2008). "Neurology education research". Neurology 70 (11): 876–883. doi:10.1212/01.wnl.0000304745.93585.88. PMID 18332346.
References
- ^ NINDS conference speakers (2007) (Accessed 29 May 2010)
- ^ a b c d e f g h UCSF School of Medicine, Daniel H. Lowenstein faculty page (accessed 29 May 2010).
- ^ UCSF Epilepsy Center (Department of Neurology) (accessed 29 May 2010)
- ^ Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards: Previous Award Recipients (Accessed 29 May 2010).
- ^ 88 items were found in a search on the ISI Web of Science database, refined by: Subject Areas=( NEUROSCIENCES & NEUROLOGY OR BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OR PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY OR GENETICS & HEREDITY OR CELL BIOLOGY ) AND Authors=( LOWENSTEIN, DH ) (search conducted 29 May 2010)
External links
- UCSF faculty biography
- Audio interview at Epilepsy.com (2004, June 24). Audio Interview with Dr. Dan Lowenstein, President of the American Epilepsy Society Innovations in the Field of Epilepsy.
Categories:- Neurologists
- Living people
- University of California, San Francisco faculty
- University of Colorado alumni
- Pennsylvania State University alumni
- Harvard Medical School alumni
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