Lawson Gentry Lowrey

Background

Lowrey, Lawson Gentry was born on December 23, 1890 in Centralia, Missouri, United States. Son of Ernest (Doctor of Medicine and Eupha Orme (Sappington) L.

Education

Student Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kansas

Career

Doctor of Medicine cum laude, Harvard University, 1915. Physician and chief medical. Officer, Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1917-1920.

Assistant director

Director demonstration child guidance clinic (in Dallas, Minneapolis. Director Institute for Child Guidance, New York, 1927-1933. Director Mental Hygiene Research Unit, Vocational Adjustment Bureau, 1937-1939.

Director Brooklyn

Assistant in anatomy U. Missouri Assistant and asso; assistant clinical Editor: Monograph Series of American Orthopsychiatric Association.

Editor of America Journal Orthopsychiatry, 1930-1948.

Achievements

• Lawson Gentry Lowrey has been listed as a noteworthy psychiatrist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member White House Conference on Child Health and Protection, 1930. Member program committee International Congress on Mental Hygiene, 1930. Member China Aid Council, since 1943.

Member Association of Anatomists, Association Pathologists and Bacteriologists, New York State Medical Association, American Medical Association, American Psychiatric Association (chairman program committee 1928-1931), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston Society Neurology and Psychiatry, North.E. Psychiatric Society, New York Neurological Society, New York Academy of Medicine, New York Academy Sciences, Academy Political and Social Science, American Orthopsychiatric Association (president 1928-1930, editor, 1930-1948, New York City Committee for Mental Hygiene (chairman 1930-1935), American Psychopathol. assosiation, New York Psychiatric Society, Westchester County Mental Hygiene Association (president 1946), Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha, Pi Kappa Alpha, Phi Beta Pi (supreme officer, since 1918, moderator, since 1931).

Mason (32°).

Connections

Father:

Ernest Lowrey