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Christopher H. Lowrey, MD

Title(s)
Professor of Medicine

Additional Titles/Positions/Affiliations
Chief, Division of Hematology
Vice Chair, Department of Medicine

Department(s)
Medicine

Education
Boston University School of Medicine, MD 1985
University of Pennsylvania, MA 1981
Bowdoin College, BA 1979

Programs
Dartmouth Cancer Center
Pharmacology and Toxicology Graduate Program
Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine
Other

Websites
https://graduate.dartmouth.edu/pemm/people/christopher-h-lowrey

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Contact Information

Christopher H. Lowrey, MD
Section of Hematology/Oncology
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon NH 03756

Office: 623 Rubin
Phone: 603-650-5747
Fax: 603-650-2334
Email: christopher.h.lowrey@dartmouth.edu

Assistant: Connie Goodrich
Asst. Phone: 603-650-2967
Asst. Email: Constance.M.Goodrich@hitchcock.org


Courses Taught

Medical Pharmacology (Cancer Chemotherapy) - DMS 2
Scientific Basis of Medicine (Hematology) - DMS 2
Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine

Biography

Dr. Lowrey received his BA in Biochemistry from Bowdoin College in 1979 and his MA, also in Biochemistry, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1982. He received his MD from Boston University School of Medicine in 1985 and subsequently performed his residency in internal medicine at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston and at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, MD. He then served as a Medical Staff Fellow and Senior Staff Fellow in the Clinical Hematology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of N.I.H. where he completed his fellowship in Hematology in 1992. In 1993 he joined the faculty of Dartmouth Medical School where he holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Medicine and Pharmacology.


Selected Publications

 

Caregivers' Out-of-Pocket Expenses and Time Commitment Following Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation at a Rural Cancer Center.
Meehan KR, Meehan JM, Hill JM, Caldon KL, Root LD, Labrie B, Brighton S, Hayes CA, Lowrey CH
Biol Blood Marrow Transplant. 2020 Sep;26(9):e227-e231. doi: 10.1016/j.bbmt.2020.06.015. Epub 2020 Jun 24.
PMID: 32592856

Severe acquired platelet dysfunction because of primary myelofibrosis with full functional and morphological recovery after allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation.
Linnik YA, Salvatore LT, Lowrey CH, Ornstein DL
Blood Coagul Fibrinolysis. 2019 Dec;30(8):419-422. doi: 10.1097/MBC.0000000000000850.
PMID: 31483321

Hypoxia-Induced VISTA Promotes the Suppressive Function of Myeloid-Derived Suppressor Cells in the Tumor Microenvironment.
Deng J, Li J, Sarde A, Lines JL, Lee YC, Qian DC, Pechenick DA, Manivanh R, Le Mercier I, Lowrey CH, Varn FS, Cheng C, Leib DA, Noelle RJ, Mabaera R
Cancer Immunol Res. 2019 Jul;7(7):1079-1090. doi: 10.1158/2326-6066.CIR-18-0507. Epub 2019 May 14.
PMID: 31088847

Down the repressors! Up the fetal hemoglobin!
Lowrey CH
Blood. 2016 Mar 17;127(11):1384-5. doi: 10.1182/blood-2016-01-689018.
PMID: 26989189

Hospital readmission following transplantation: identifying risk factors and designing preventive measures.
McKenna DR, Sullivan MR, Hill JM, Lowrey CH, Brown JR, Hickman J, Meehan KR
J Community Support Oncol. 2015 Sep;13(9):316-22. doi: 10.12788/jcso.0168.
PMID: 26859751

Induction of fetal hemoglobin through enhanced translation efficiency of γ-globin mRNA.
Hahn CK, Lowrey CH
Blood. 2014 Oct 23;124(17):2730-4. doi: 10.1182/blood-2014-03-564302. Epub 2014 Aug 28.
PMID: 25170120

Multiple physical stresses induce γ-globin gene expression and fetal hemoglobin production in erythroid cells.
Schaeffer EK, West RJ, Conine SJ, Lowrey CH
Blood Cells Mol Dis. 2014 Apr;52(4):214-24. doi: 10.1016/j.bcmd.2013.10.007. Epub 2013 Dec 5.
PMID: 24314748

Laboratory tests for paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria.
Preis M, Lowrey CH
Am J Hematol. 2014 Mar;89(3):339-41. doi: 10.1002/ajh.23612.
PMID: 24127129

Vinblastine rapidly induces NOXA and acutely sensitizes primary chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells to ABT-737.
Bates DJ, Danilov AV, Lowrey CH, Eastman A
Mol Cancer Ther. 2013 Aug;12(8):1504-14. doi: 10.1158/1535-7163.MCT-12-1197. Epub 2013 May 30.
PMID: 23723123

Eukaryotic initiation factor 2α phosphorylation mediates fetal hemoglobin induction through a post-transcriptional mechanism.
Hahn CK, Lowrey CH
Blood. 2013 Jul 25;122(4):477-85. doi: 10.1182/blood-2013-03-491043. Epub 2013 May 20.
PMID: 23690448

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