Dr. William Lowe
Full Name
Dr. William Lowe
Title
Medical Director, Employee Health and Work Force Safety
Organization
Northwell Health
Speaker Bio
Dr. William Lowe is a 1993 graduate of New York Medical College. Following a clinical internship at Westchester County Medical Center, Doctor Lowe began a tour of duty in the United States Army. He served as the Division-Support-Command Surgeon and Medical Director of the Connor Troop Clinic at the Army's distinguished 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, New York. In the fall of 1994 through the winter of 1995, Doctor Lowe deployed to Haiti as a Brigade Surgeon in support of Operation-Up-Hold-Democracy. He received an Honorable Discharge with several notable citations including: the National Defense Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal. Following military service, Dr. Lowe completed an Emergency Medicine residency at SUNY Buffalo, where he served as Chief Resident from 1999-2000. In 2005, Dr. Lowe completed a second residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He remains board certified and active in both specialties. Dr. Lowe served as an attending Emergency Physician at Montefiore Medical Center from 2000-2008. From 2005-2011, he specialized in Energy-Sector Occupational Medicine at both the Consolidated Edison Company of New York and Saudi Aramco, in Saudi Arabia. Currently, he is the Medical Director for Employee Health Services at Northwell Health and he is a fellow of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and an Assistant Professor at The Hofstra School of Medicine. Dr. Lowe's areas of interest are occupational drug testing, fitness for duty determination and infectious disease prevention and treatment in health care and research settings.