CHP/PCOR
Stanford University
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019

owens@stanford.edu
(650) 723-0933 (voice)
(650) 723-1919 (fax)

Research Interests
technology assessment; decision theory; methods for development of clinical guidelines; cost-effectiveness of preventive and treatment interventions for HIV, and of treatment strategies for cardiovascular disease and cancer; evaluation of public health interventions

Douglas Owens is a general internist; a senior investigator at the VA Palo Alto Health Care System; a professor of medicine (general internal medicine) and, by courtesy, of health research and policy at the Stanford School of Medicine; and a core faculty member at CHP/PCOR. He directs the Stanford-UCSF Evidence-based Practice Center; the Program on Clinical Decision Making and Guideline Development at PCOR; the Palo Alto VA's Ambulatory Care Fellowship Program; the VA's Postdoctoral Informatics Program; and serves as associate director of the Fellowship Program in Health Research and Policy at Stanford.

Owens' research focuses on technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, evidence synthesis, and methods for clinical decision making. He is studying the cost-effectiveness of preventive and therapeutic interventions for HIV/AIDS in several countries; diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for cardiovascular disease; approaches to quality improvement; strategies to respond to bioterrorism attacks; and he has developed methods for producing clinical practice guidelines tailored to specific patient populations. He chairs the Clinical Efficacy Assessment Subcommittee (CEAS) for the American College of Physicians. CEAS develops clinical guidelines that are used widely and are published regularly in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

Owens received a BS and an MS from Stanford University, and an MD from the University of California-San Francisco. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellowship in health research and policy at Stanford.