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Pamela Owens, PhD
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Pamela Owens, Ph.D. Research Assistant Professor of Medicine Office Location: Washington University School of Medicine Dr. Owens joined the faculty of the Division of Infectious Diseases in 2009. She obtained a B.A. from Washington University and an M.S. in Occupational Therapy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After practicing clinically for six years, Dr. Owens earned a Ph.D. in Epidemiology and Health Policy from Yale University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. Prior to arriving at Washington University, Dr. Owens worked as a research scientist at the US Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) for eight years. At AHRQ, she had the lead responsibility for outpatient data in the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) – a collection of longitudinal hospital care (inpatient and outpatient) data in the United States, with all-payer, encounter-level information. In addition, she served as a project officer on grants related to patient safety, emergency department care, and organization of the health care system. Research Interests My research interests are in disparities in access, costs, and quality (including safety) of health care, health policy, and health services research with a particular emphasis on vulnerable populations, emergency department (ED) care, ambulatory surgery care, pediatric hospitalizations and ED care, and mental health and substance abuse care. My work has largely focused on using administrative data to examine patterns in health service delivery and translating the information for use by public policy stakeholders. Recent studies include disparities in the quality and safety of hospital care for children, injury-related ED visits for children, trends in mental health and substance abuse hospitalizations, revisits and readmissions for injurious falls among the elderly, variation in ED care by payer, and a comparison of administrative databases to examine care in the ED.
Division of Infectious Diseases
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