Christopher T. Owens
PharmD, MPH
Associate Vice President for Health Sciences
Professor
PPRA
Office: 136 • Gravely Hall • Pocatello Campus
Interprofessional Education • Medical Ethics
Dr. Christopher T. Owens, PharmD, MPH, serves as Associate Vice President for Health Sciences at Idaho State University and is a Professor in the Department of Pharmacy Practice and Administrative Sciences at the L.S. Skaggs College of Pharmacy. He works on the Pocatello campus. He earned his PharmD from ISU in 2002 and his MPH in 2013. He also earned a Certificate in Biomedical Ethics in 2017. He completed a residency in Ambulatory Care at the Southeast Idaho VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic in 2003 and worked as a prn community pharmacist for over 15 years and a clinical pharmacist at Health West in Pocatello.
For over 20 years, he has taught and published on professionalism, ethics, evidence-based integrative health, and population health topics. He has lectured on clinical topics as well as health care ethics at Idaho State University since 2003 and has been part of the interprofessional curriculum task force with the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine since 2020. Dr. Owens has served as president of the Healthcare Ethics Special Interest Group (SIG) for the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) and is passionate about advancing interprofessional education, working collaboratively to promote evidence-based patient care and population health, and preparing an appropriately-trained healthcare workforce for rural settings and underserved populations.