Anthony Lowe

Dr Anthony Lowe
Dr Anthony Lowe
Born (1962-03-16) 16 March 1962
Mtarfa, Malta
Residence Sydney
Citizenship British, Australian
Fields Prostate cancer, cancer control
Institutions Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, Griffith Health Institute
Alma mater University of Cambridge (BA, MA, MMath), University of Southampton (PhD)
Doctoral advisor Tony Hey
Known for Expertise in prostate cancer and PSA testing
Spouse Sarah Lowe

Associate Professor Anthony Peter Lowe (born 16 March 1962) is a British-Australian mathematical physicist and actuary. He is Chief Executive Officer at Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia[1] and a frequent media commentator on prostate cancer and prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

His current research interests are community attitudes towards prostate cancer and cancer survivorship, particularly the psychosocial and economic aspects of survivorship.

Life and career

Dr Lowe was born in Malta and educated at The Perse School Cambridge. He studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1983 and completing his Master of Mathematics (Part III of the Mathematical Tripos) in 1984. He was elected a Scholar of Robinson College, Cambridge in July 1983.

In 1984 Dr Lowe moved to the University of Southampton where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in theoretical physics.[13]

After completing his PhD Dr Lowe joined consulting actuaries R Watson & Sons (now part of Willis Towers Watson) and trained as an actuary. He was made a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1990 and was appointed a Partner of R Watson & Sons in 1991.

In 1994 Dr Lowe moved to Sydney, Australia. Shortly after moving to Sydney he joined AMP Limited’s superannuation consulting business as Investment Consulting Practice Leader. Whilst at AMP Dr Lowe led an AusAID funded project advising the Kingdom of Tonga on reform of their Civil Service Pension Scheme. He was subsequently appointed Program Director of a business change program in partnership with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) to reengineer AMP's corporate superannuation administration platform (people, processes and technology).

In 1998 Dr Lowe joined Mercer where he held a variety of senior executive roles. He was appointed a Worldwide Partner in 1998 and Executive Director of Mercer's Australian business in 2001. From 2002 to 2004 Dr Lowe was seconded to Mercer’s US business as US Benefits Administration Practice Leader based in Princeton, New Jersey. Dr Lowe’s ultimate role at Mercer was Asia-Pacific Business Group Leader, Mercer Wealth Solutions with responsibility for Mercer's benefits administration businesses in Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, including the Mercer Super Trust and Mercer Portfolio Service.[14]

In 1999 Dr Lowe was made a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. He has been a member of the Leadership & Career Development and Public Policy Council Committees of Actuaries Institute (Institute of Actuaries of Australia) since 2011 and 2014 respectively.

In 2007 Dr Lowe decided to move to the non-profit sector and was appointed Chief Operating Officer at the National Breast Cancer Foundation.[15] Whilst at the National Breast Cancer Foundation he led the design and implementation of the integrated website and customer relationship management systems for the Pink Ribbon Breakfast campaign[16] and Register4,[17][18] Australia's first online community for volunteer breast cancer research participants.

In March 2011 Dr Lowe was appointed Chief Executive Officer at Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia.[19] In this role he has pursued an agenda of ensuring its activities and programs are based on the latest available scientific and medical evidence. Under his leadership, and in partnership with Cancer Council Australia, Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia has developed clinical practice guidelines on PSA testing and early management of test-detected prostate cancer[20] with the aim of building consensus around PSA testing and bringing order to Australia’s de facto unorganised prostate cancer screening program.[21] The guideline recommendations were approved by the Chief Executive Officer of the National Health and Medical Research Council on 2 November 2015 and were published on 20 January 2016.[22][23][24] Dr Lowe has championed prostate cancer survivorship research in partnership with Griffith University, particularly the development of ProsCare,[25] a psychological care model for men with prostate cancer and research into the financial implications of treatment for prostate cancer.[26] He has also championed the development of resources and peer support groups to meet the particular needs of gay and bisexual men[27][28] and men from culturally and linguistically diverse[29] and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander[30] communities with prostate cancer.

Dr Lowe is the nephew of biologist and ichthyologist Rosemary Lowe-McConnell.

Publications

Fellowships

Awards

References

  1. ↑ Annual Report 2011–2012. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2012
  2. ↑ Jill Margo. Blue is the New Pink. Australian Financial Review 4 August 2011 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
  3. ↑ Julia Rowbotham. Men urged to persist with disputed prostate test. Sydney Morning Herald 8 October 2011.
  4. ↑ Interview with Dr John D'Arcy. Prostate Cancer – surgery is not always the answer. 5 August 2012
  5. ↑ Anthony Lowe. Getting to the Bottom of the Great PSA Controversy. The Punch 26 November 2012.
  6. ↑ Ron Hughes. Talking about prostate cancer. Gay News Network 18 April 2013 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-13. Retrieved 2014-03-13.
  7. ↑ Interview with Tony Eastley and Tom Nightingale. More prostate cancers, but survival rates increasing. AM 14 November 2013
  8. ↑ Jill Margo. The Prostate Cancer Conundrum. Australian Financial Review 15 November 2013
  9. ↑ Men die earlier but women's health gets four times more funding. news.com.au 4 January 2014
  10. ↑ Public Seminar on Prostate Cancer - A/Prof Anthony Lowe and A/Prof Ganesh Raj. Freemasons Centre for Men's Health, The University of Adelaide 17 February 2014
  11. ↑ Jill Margo. Prostate choice clearer. Australian Financial Review 5 March 2014
  12. ↑ Jane Cadzow. Cancer Wars. Sydney Morning Herald 8 March 2014
  13. ↑ Lowe, A. Lattice Gauge-Higgs Theories (PhD Thesis). University of Southampton 1987
  14. ↑ Barrie Dunstan. Super trust goes shopping. Australian Financial Review 8 February 2005
  15. ↑ Candice Sng. Rebel with a Cause. Actuaries Magazine. Actuaries Institute August 2012
  16. ↑ Beverley Head. Pink Ribbon connections all tied up. Sydney Morning Herald 9 September 2008
  17. ↑ Chloe Herrick. Breast Cancer Foundation deploys CRM for Register4 initiative. Computerworld 3 November 2010
  18. ↑ register4.org.au
  19. ↑ Media Release PCFA appoints new CEO - Dr Anthony Lowe. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 28 March 2011
  20. ↑ PSA Testing and Early Management of Test-Detected Prostate Cancer: Clinical Practice Guidelines
  21. ↑ Annual Report 2012–2013. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2013
  22. ↑ Jill Margo. Doctors call for end to digital prostate check. Australian Financial Review 4 December 2014
  23. ↑ Jill Margo. Relief as prostate-testing consensus reached. Australian Financial Review 20 January 2016
  24. ↑ Jill Margo. Prostate testing breakthrough after 20 yrs of confusion. Australian Financial Review 20 January 2016
  25. ↑ Chambers, S., Dunn, J., Lazenby, M., Clutton, S., Newton, U., Cormie, P., Lowe, A., Sandoe, D., Gardiner, R. ProsCare: A Psychological Care Model for Men with Prostate Cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2013. ISBN 9780-9923508-3-3
  26. ↑ Gordon LG, Reinking S, Mervin C. The Financial Impact of Prostate Cancer in Australia. Final Report August 2013. Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith Health Institute, Griffith University. Meadowbrook Queensland.
  27. ↑ Jill Margo. Putting prostate problems in non-heterosexual men on the agenda. Australian Financial Review 3 July 2013
  28. ↑ New resources for gay and bisexual men to fill gap in prostate cancer support. Star Online 13 August 2014
  29. ↑ Jill Margo. Ethnic communities vague on prostate risks. Australian Financial Review 10 September 2014
  30. ↑ Culturally-Specific Prostate Cancer Resource Launched. Coast Community News 15 December 2015
  31. ↑ Lowe, A. A Mean Field Study of the Z(2) Spin-Gauge System. Zeitschrift für Physik C, Particles and Fields, Volume 32, Number 1, 101-104 1986
  32. ↑ Lowe, A. Mean Field Analysis of the Lattice Abelian Higgs Model. Zeitschrift für Physik C, Particles and Fields, Volume 34, Number 2, 243-248 1986
  33. ↑ Lowe, A., Bennett, M., Badenoch, S. Research, Awareness, Support: Ten Years of Progress in Prostate Cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2012. ISBN 978-0-646-58388-4
  34. ↑ Lowe, A., Dyson, S. New Therapies for Advanced Cancers: Can Our Society Afford Them? Is it Ethical to Deny Patients Access to Them? Actuaries Institute 2013
  35. ↑ Anthony Lowe. New Therapies for Advanced Cancers. Actuaries Magazine. Actuaries Institute June 2013
  36. ↑ Lowe, A., Wong, W., Lowe, S. Prostate Cancer: The Next Generation. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2013 ISBN 978-0-646-90677-5
  37. ↑ Wong, W., Lowe, A., Dowsett, G., Duncan, D., O'Keeffe, D. Mitchell, M. Prostate Cancer Information Needs of Australian Gay and Bisexual Men. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2013. ISBN 978-0-9923335-8-4
  38. ↑ Suzanne K. Chambers, Anthony Lowe, Melissa K. Hyde, Leah Zajdlewicz, Robert A. Gardiner, David Sandoe and Jeff Dunn. Defining Young in the Context of Prostate Cancer. American Journal of Men's Health, DOI: 10.1177/1557988314529991 2014
  39. ↑ Wong, W., Lowe, S., Lowe, A. Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities and Prostate Cancer. Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia 2014 ISBN 978-0-9923508-9-5
  40. ↑ Armstrong, B., Lowe, A. Clinical Practice Guidelines for PSA Testing and Early Management of Test-Detected Prostate Cancer. Cancer Forum, Nov 2014, Volume 38, Number 3, 218-220
  41. ↑ Gordon, L.G., Walker, S.M., Mervin, M.C., Lowe, A., Smith, D. P., Gardiner, R. A., Chambers, S. K. Financial Toxicity: A Potential Side Effect of Prostate Cancer Treatment Among Australian Men. European Journal of Cancer Care 2015
  42. ↑ Suzanne K Chambers, Paul A Scuffham, Peter D Baade, Anthony P Lowe, Jeff Dunn, Daniel A Galvão, Louisa Gordon, David P Smith, David F Sandoe, Addie C Wootten, Nigel A Spry, Robert A Gardiner, Ian D Davis, Robert U Newton. Advancing Prostate Cancer Survivorship Research in Australia. CancerForum, Nov 2015, Volume 39, Number 3, 204-209
  43. ↑ Suzanne K Chambers, Melissa K Hyde, John L Oliffe, Leah Zajdlewicz, Anthony Lowe, Addie C Wootten, Jeff Dunn. Measuring Masculinity in the Context of Chronic Disease. Psychology of Men & Masculinity, Nov 2015.
  44. ↑ Melissa K Hyde, Leah Zajdlewicz, Addie C Wootten, Christian J Nelson, Anthony Lowe, Jeff Dunn, Suzanne K Chambers. Medical Help-Seeking for Sexual Concerns in Prostate Cancer Survivors. Sexual Medicine, Jan 2016.
  45. ↑ Actuaries Magazine. Actuaries Institute November 2013

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