Jerry Owens

ACVR Diplomate, Author, Veterinary Leader

Jerry Owens was born and raised in Santa Barbara, California and received his DVM from UC Davis in 1971. After spending 5 years in postgraduate study at the Animal Medical Center in New York and the University of Pennsylvania, he became a diplomate in the American College of Veterinary Radiology (ACVR) in 1976.

Dr. Owens practiced veterinary medicine in the San Francisco Bay Area for 39 years, offering specialty referral services in imaging and medicine and providing consultations to over 1,200 veterinary hospitals and more than 20,000 veterinarians. He was involved with three textbooks, authoring two editions of “Radiographic Interpretation for the Small Animal Clinician” and co-editing the “Manual Of Small Animal Cardiology” with Larry P. Tilley. He's published many scientific articles and has presented lectures, seminars, and radiology workshops in the United States and abroad.

He has also been involved with both clinical research projects and organized research funded by pharmaceutical and medical device companies. He is past president of the ACVR and the American Veterinary Medical History Society (AVMHS). Currently, he is the historian for the ACVR, on the board of directors of the AVMHS and the Society of Veterinary Medical Ethics (SVME), and on the Medical Advisory Board of SignalPET.