Dr. Brett Owens is board-certified in Orthopaedic Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. His clinical practice includes the treatment of sports injuries in both adult and pediatric patients, with a focus on shoulder and knee conditions. Dr. Owens is currently a Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Brown University Alpert Medical School and is also the Associate Editor of the American Journal of Sports Medicine since 2012.
He is a retired Army Colonel and served for more than a decade as a surgeon in the Army including 8 years at West Point caring for their Div. 1 athletics. Dr. Owens was the team physician for the USA Men’s Lacrosse Team for 5 years, including during the World Games in 2014. He has lent his medical expertise as a consultant to the US Lacrosse team and is currently a consultant to the National Football League. Dr. Owens is also the team physician for Brown University and the Providence Bruins and cares for athletes from numerous high schools.
His proliferative research career consists of more than 300 articles and 4 textbooks in Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. His research has garnered the O’Donoghue Research Award, Aircast Award, and NCAA Research Awards from the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine and the AAOS Kappa Delta Award.
- MD, Georgetown University School of Medicine
- Resident, University of Massachusetts, Orthopaedic Surgery
- Fellow, West Point, Orthopaedic Sports Medicine