BUSM’s Lowe to Receive Metcalf Award
Robert C. Lowe, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine and Education Director for the Section of Gastroenterology at Boston Medical Center, will be presented with a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching at Commencement exercises on May 20.
“This is one of the University’s highest teaching awards, and we are honored that Dr. Lowe will be recognized as one of the most outstanding faculty at Boston University,” said BU Medical Campus Provost and BUSM Dean Karen Antman, MD.
Students, faculty and alumni nominate candidates for the awards, which were established in 1973 by a gift from the late BU Board of Trustees Chairman Emeritus Arthur G.B. Metcalf. The Metcalf Award winners each receive a prize of $5,000.
“My approach to teaching is best described as using active learning principles and real-life cases to help students integrate the basic principles of medical science with the practical knowledge that underlies clinical medicine,” says Lowe. “In addition to teaching professional behavior, I try to instill a sense of the history and value of the medical profession as a whole. I take very seriously the trust and power that society gives us as physicians, and I explicitly remind students of their responsibility to individual patients and society as a whole.”
A native of New York City who now lives in Westford, Mass., Lowe joined the BU faculty in 2001 after a three-year appointment at Harvard Medical School. He earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School, with postdoctoral training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Boston Medical Center. He recently was selected by Boston magazine as one of “Boston’s Top Doctors.”