Chinese American Hero: Rolland Lowe
June 9, 2009
Name in English: Rolland C. Lowe
Name in Chinese: Simplified [Traditional]
Name in Pinyin: Use Pinyin for the Chinese name
Gender: Male
Birth Year: 1932
Birth Place: San Francisco, California
Philanthropy: Yes
Profession(s): Physician
Education: BS, University of California at Berkley at age 18; Medical School, University of California at San Francisco at age 22
Awards: Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, University of California at San Francisco; Silver SPUR for Lifetime Achievement Award, San Francisco Planning and Research; Champions of Health Professions Diversity Award, California Wellness Foundation.
Contribution(s): Dr. Rolland Lowe is a community doctor in the truest sense. He has cared for some 20 thousand patients in more than four decades of practicing medicine in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Even though some of his patients could not afford to pay the small amount that was charged, or have no insurance coverage, no one was ever turned away. Besides taking care of his patients, he is always looking for better ways to organize the health care to higher service. For example, he helped form the Chinese Community Health Care Association, which grew to include more than 150 practicing physicians to provide culturally sensitive and affordable, even free care, in the San Francisco Chinatown community.
In keeping with his charitable spirit, Dr. Lowe founded the Lawrence Choy Lowe Memorial Fund in 1987, a charitable and civic foundation in Chinatown Fund which makes gifts to nonprofit organizations for a wide variety of causes in the Chinese community. Among these causes has been ensuring Asian civil rights and the establishment of a capital campaign for the Chinese Historical Society’s museum.
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