Rate My Professor Jack Owens

Owens earned his MD from Emory University School of Medicine in 1992, completed pediatrics residency and neonatology fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (1992-1995 and 1995-1998), and obtained an MPH in Perinatal Epidemiology from UAB in 1998. He is dually board-certified in General Pediatrics and Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics Perinatal Subsection, and Certified Physician Executive. Earlier in his career, he held leadership roles in Mississippi NICUs, serving as President of the Mississippi Society of Newborn Medicine (2002-2008) and coordinating Vermont Oxford Network quality collaboratives that reduced nosocomial infections from 22% to 5% and admission hypothermia from 33% to 5%. Owens has authored publications on neonatal quality improvement and perinatal epidemiology, including “Multi-Hospital Community NICU Quality Improvement Improves Survival of ELBW Infants” (Journal of the Mississippi State Medical Association, August 2015), “Assessing Need and Distribution of Neonatal Intensive Care Beds in Mississippi” (June 2008), and several peer-reviewed articles on COVID-19 outcomes such as “Characteristics and Clinical Outcomes of Adult Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19 - Georgia, March 2020” (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep, 2020). His interests include healthcare delivery microsystems to reduce care variation and predictive analytics for infant care. He advises the Tennessee Initiative for Perinatal Quality Care.