About Dr. Stephen Lownie

NEUROSURGEON & NEUROINTERVENTIONALIST

Dr. Lownie is an accomplished neurosurgeon and neurointerventionalist with interests in vascular and skull base diseases. Since 2020 he has served as Professor in the Division of Neurosurgery at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He was recently Professor in the Departments of Clinical Neurological Sciences, Medical Imaging and Otolaryngology / Head and Neck Surgery at Western University in London, Ontario from 2011 to 2020, having previously served as Chief of the Division of Neurosurgery from 2000 to 2005, as Co-Chair / Co-Chief of the Department of Clinical Neurological Sciences from 2000 to 2010. He also served as President of the Canadian Neurosurgical Society during 2016 to 2018.

Dr. Lownie is the first Canadian and one of the first worldwide trained in both neurosurgery and interventional neuroradiology. He obtained his MD at Dalhousie University, followed by postgraduate education in neurosurgery at Western, and diagnostic and interventional neuroradiology fellowships at Western and at UCLA. He was attending neurosurgeon and neurointerventionalist at London Health Sciences Centre from 1992 to 2020. He has mentored neurosurgeons, radiologists, and neurologists from Canada, the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and the Middle East.

Father of four, husband to PCL, devoted friend, swimmer, fisherman and waterfall hunter. He is currently writing a book about the greatest brain aneurysm surgeon of the 20th century, Dr. Charles George Drake. This is the story of the most challenging brain aneurysms, and the surgeon who pioneered their cure.