Kellie Owens

Kellie Owens, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health

Keywords
Medical Ethics, Sociology of Medicine, Health Information Technologies, Genomics
Summary

I am a medical sociologist and empirical bioethicist whose work focuses on the ethical use of health information technologies. I am particularly interested in understanding when and how new technologies worsen or improve health inequities. My most recent projects explore the actionability of genomic data for healthy populations. I am also interested in developing better social and technical infrastructures to support artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) tools in healthcare.
 

My research is supported by an early career award from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has won awards from the American Sociological Association, the American Anthropological Association, and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S). 

Academic office

227 East 30th Street

6th Floor, #624

New York, NY 10016

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Assistant Professor, Department of Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Graduate Education

PhD from Northwestern University

Those designing healthcare algorithms must become actively anti-racist

Owens, Kellie; Walker, Alexis

Nature medicine. 2020 09; 26(9):1327-1328

How Clinicians Conceptualize "Actionability" in Genomic Screening

Owens, Kellie; Sankar, Pamela; Asfaha, Dina M

Journal of personalized medicine. 2023 Feb 04; 13(2):

The passivists: Managing risk through institutionalized ignorance in genomic medicine

Owens, Kellie

Social science & medicine. 2022 02; 294:114715

"The ultimate risk:" How clinicians assess the value and meaning of genetic data in cardiology

Owens, Kellie

Clinical ethics. 2021 Sep 01; 16(3):189-195

Too Much of a Good Thing? American Childbirth, Intentional Ignorance, and the Boundaries of Responsible Knowledge

Owens, Kellie

Science, technology, & human values. 2017; 42(5):848-871

Colorblind Science? Perceptions of the Importance of Racial Diversity in Science Research

Owens, Kellie

Spontaneous generations : a journal for the history & philosophy of science. 2016; 8(1):13-21

Ethical Considerations for Enrolling "Invested Parties" in Large-Scale Clinical Studies: Insights from the RECOVER Initiative

Owens, Kellie; Anderson, Emily E; Esquenazi-Karonika, Shari; Hanson, Keith; Mitchell, Maika; Linton, Janelle; Briscoe, Jasmine; Baucom, Leah Castro; Fisher, Liza; Letts, Rebecca; Nguyen, Kian; Parent, Brendan

Ethics & human research. 2024 Oct; 46(5):2-12

The Biggest Struggle: Navigating Trust and Uncertainty in Genetic Variant Interpretation

Griffen, Zachary; Asfaha, Dina M; Owens, Kellie

Public health genomics. 2024; 27(1):228-232

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