Faculty Rank

Associate Professor

Education

University of the West Indies, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kingston, Jamaica, M.B. B.S, 1972

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, B.S., 1990, M.S., 1996 (Computer Science)

Internship

Cornwall County Regional Hospital, St. James, Jamaica West Indies, 1973

Residency

Crawford Long Hospital, Atlanta, GA, 1974

Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 1978

Boards

American Board of Pathology, Anatomic Pathology

American Board of Pathology, Clinical Pathology

Clinical Interests

Renal Pathology, Electron Microscopy

Research Interests

Pathology of Renal Transplants, Multimedia Instruction in Electron Microscopy

Selected Publications

1.  Dobbs LJ, Earls L, Ahsanuddin A, Hewan-Lowe K. Detection of monoclonal immunoglobin heavy chain gene rearrangement in diffuse large B-cell lymphomas using a subset of the BIOMED-2 primers. Laboratory Investigation. 2006;(86):Supplement 1:327A.

2. Zhao ZQ, Velez DA, Wang NP, Hewan-Lowe KO, Nakamura M, Guyton RA, Vinten-Johansen J. Progressively developed myocardial apoptotic cell death during late phase of reperfusion. Apoptosis. 2001;Aug;6(4):279-90.

3. Nzerue CM, Hewan-Lowe K, Harvey P, Mohammed D, Furlong B, Oster R. Prevalence of nondiabetic renal disease among African-American patients with type II diabetes mellitus.  Scand J Urol Nephrol. 2000;Oct;34(5):331-5.

4. Zhao ZQ, Nakamura M, Wang NP, Velez DA, Hewan-Lowe KO, Guyton RA, Vinten-Johansen J. Dynamic progression of contractile and endothelial dysfunction and infarct extension in the late phase of reperfusion. J Surg Res. 2000;Dec;94(2):133-44.

5. Nzerue C, Drayton J, Oster R, Hewan-Lowe K.  Genitourinary tuberculosis in patients with HIV infection: clinical features in an inner-city hospital population.  Am J Med Sci. 2000;Nov;320(5):299-303.

Selected Presentations

1.  Baltayan A, Frederick C, Hewan-Lowe KO, Robiou C. A Case of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma. Poster presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Medical Association; Nov 11-13, 2004; New Orleans, LA.

2.  Wallace T, Hewan-Lowe KO, Gilbert C, Finley JL. Fulminant Course of Wegener's Granulomatosis. Poster presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Medical Association; Nov 11-13, 2004; New Orleans, LA. 

3.  Lim SS, Hewan-Lowe KO, Dobbs LJ. Squamous Epithelium-lined Cystic Lesion with Cytologic Atypia in Benign Inguinal Lymph Node. Poster presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Southern Medical Association; Nov 11-13, 2004; New Orleans, LA.