Jerome Lowenstein (January 25, 1933December 8, 2025) was a medical doctor specializing in nephrology, the specialty related to kidneys, in New York, New York. He received his M.D. from New York University in 1957. He continued to work at New York University as a professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology, as Firm Chief in the NYU School of Medicine, as a clinician in several clinical practices in New York, as a researcher, and also as an author. He was also the Senior Nonfiction Editor for the Bellevue Literary Review. He developed a program at NYU for Humanistic Aspects of Medical Education which he directed.
Lowenstein was born in the Bronx, New York City, on January 25, 1933. He did pre-med studies at New York University, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1953, and graduated from the N.Y.U. College of Medicine in 1957. After an internship at Montefiore Hospital in the Bronx, studies in gerontology at the National Institutes of Health in Baltimore, and a residency at Bellevue Hospital, he returned to N.Y.U. in 1963. He co-founded the Bellevue Literary Review in 2000 and was its nonfiction editor for 20 years. From 2007 he was founding publisher of the Bellevue Literary Press, a publishing house dedicated to literary fiction and nonfiction at the intersection of the arts and sciences. Lowenstein died on December 8, 2025, at his home in Manhattan, at the age of 92.
During his medical and research career he conducted many clinical trials and extensive research in several topics in medicine. He also published a novel. As of 2019, his faculty web page listed 92 publications by him. A selection follows:
As of 2019 Amazon listed three books by him: