Dr. Bowhay is third generation Californian, raised on the Monterey Peninsula.  Educated at Stanford, earning a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology and pre-med in 1972, with a period at Stanford in Austria.

During his years at Stanford and for several years after, Dr. Bowhay worked for Stanford and Cal State San Jose on oceanographic vessels traveling north to Canada, and south to the Galapagos Islands. Later on he was an instructor of oceanography at the Moss Landing Marine Labs.

In 1974, Dr. Bowhay took a job with Del Monte Seafood International in the Sultanate of Oman where he started as a master fisherman, eventually becoming project manager for the Sultan.
Accustomed to living abroad, he enrolled in medical school in Guadalajara. Externships through Guadalajara allowed him to study in hospitals in Salinas, Long Beach and San Francisco.

After graduating from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, Dr. Bowhay spent a year of internship in Houston, Texas learning surgical technique. He returned to Mexico for a year of social service, teaching medical students.

Further training led Dr. Bowhay to Battle Creek, Michigan and Pueblo, Colorado for family medicine residency specializing in small town practice. He stayed on with the Pueblo program as a faculty member before moving to Hawaii.

On the Big Island, Dr. Bowhay was a staff physician for Hamakua Sugar Company, simultaneously running his own practice. During his time there, he had extensive emergency room and surgical practice, where his skills for facial repairs began, and were a great benefit to his patients.

After intensive studies in facial aesthetic practice and procedures, Dr. Bowhay began offering these services in his well-established family practice office in Jackson, California, where he has practiced for almost twenty years.

Expertly combining his background in surgical procedures, and complimenting these skills with newly acquired facial medicine techniques, his areas of specialty include: facial aesthetics, skin laser and sclerotherapy

Dr. Bowhay’s academic career includes faculty appointments to three universities and three medical schools. He is a life-member of both the Stanford and the Universidad de Guadalajara Alumni Associations. He also participates in the visiting professor program in Guadalajara. Dr. Bowhay is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice, and is Board Certified in Family Medicine.