A COMPELLING STORY: Dr Daidre Rowe - Career neurosurgeon... Assisted by the Jamaica Adult Suffrage Scholarship.... Dr Rowe, whose philosophy is “All I have is all I need”, also encourages young people to reach for their goals.

BY KIMBERLEY HIBBERT  Monday, November 20, 2017

DR Daidre Rowe, 33, is a strong-headed individual who commits herself wholeheartedly to the task at hand.

Dr.Daidre Rowe
Photo: (Michael Gordon) 

Born in Craighead, Manchester, but raised in Christiana in the same parish, Dr Rowe told All Woman that in addition to the cooler temperatures in Manchester, she enjoyed the natural, untouched and rustic scenery there.

While admitting that she never had a specific dream growing up, she recounts an experience that helped to chart the course of her life.

“I was coming home from school one day and witnessed a student from Holmwood Technical getting hit by a motor vehicle. I felt so helpless. He was just lying there and there was nothing I could do. That's when I decided I wanted to go into medicine,” she said.

And so, after leaving Manchester High, coming to Kingston and doing sixth form at Campion College, Rowe enrolled in the Faculty of Medical Sciences at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, to realise that dream.

Assisted by the Jamaica Adult Suffrage Scholarship, Rowe was able to complete her studies at the UWI before concluding her senior house officer duties at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI). Having decided to specialise in neurosurgery, she graduated this year as a neurosurgeon from the UWI class of 2017. more