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Dr. Lowenstein is Professor and Vice Chairman in the Department of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Founder and Director of the UCSF Epilepsy Center, and Director of Physician-Scientist Training Programs for the UCSF School of Medicine. He was previously at Harvard Medical School as the Dean for Medical Education and Carl W. Walter Professor of Neurology. During 2004, Dr. Lowenstein served as the President of the American Epilepsy Society.
His interests include the molecular and cellular changes in neural networks following seizure activity and injury and the contribution of neurogenesis to seizure-induced network reorganization in the adult central nervous system. He has received several national awards for excellence in teaching and numerous academic honors and awards, including the American Epilepsy Society's 2001 Basic Research Award. Most recently, Dr. Lowenstein's research has centered on approaches designed to advance understanding of the complex genetics that are thought to underlie a substantial portion of idiopathic epilepsies. In collaboration with other epilepsy researchers, he is working on the design of a venture entitled "The Epilepsy Phenome/Genome Project," with the intention of collecting detailed phenotypic and genotypic information on more than 5,000 patients in order to identify genetic mutations and post-translational mechanisms contributing to epilepsy. | 