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William Owen Jr., MD, Internal Medicine, San Francisco, CA

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Internal Medicine • San Francisco, CA

HIV/AIDS Medicine

Private Practice, William F. Owen, Jr., M.D.

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  • Office

    77 Van Ness Ave
    Ste 101
    San Francisco, CA 94102
    Phone+1 415-867-4252
    Fax+1 888-960-2124

Summary

  • William F. Owen Jr, MD, was in private practice in internal medicine and HIV Medicine in San Francisco’s Mission and Castro Districts from October 1979 through December 2014. He was a physician at Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation from January 2015 through January 2017. He also served as an active staff member at CPMC and its component hospitals from 1979 through January 2017. He retired as of February 2017.

    Dr. Owen received both his undergraduate and medical degree from Temple University. His postgraduate training included a residency at Baystate Medical Center/Tufts University in Springfield, Massachusetts. He also completed a fellowship in emergency medicine at University of California, San Francisco. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is credentialed as an HIV specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.

    Dr. Owen wrote one of the first review articles about health care issues of gay men that was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine in 1980 and has been an author of numerous other articles in the areas of gay health care and HIV Medicine. He was a founder, in 1977, of Bay Area Physicians for Human Rights (BAPHR), one of the first organizations of gay doctors in the U.S. His honors include the American Society of Internal Medicine Special Recognition Award and the naming of The Owen Clinic at the University of California, San Diego in recognition of his work with gay patients. In January 2019, he was presented with a lifetime Community Service Award by the Global HIV/AIDS program at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.

    • ZSFGH Community Service Award to Bill Owen MD (full) - 16 January 2019

    Bill Owen MD receives ZSFGH Global HIV Community Service Tribute - Full Award Ceremony - 1/16/2019

Education & Training

  • UCSF Health
    UCSF Health1976 - 1978
  • UMass Chan - Baystate
    UMass Chan - BaystateResidency, Internal Medicine, 1973 - 1976
  • Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University
    Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple UniversityClass of 1973
  • Temple University
    Temple UniversityBA, Cum laude, 1969

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 1976 - 2025
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
  • American Academy of HIV MedicineDiplomate

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • HIV Community Service Award Zuckerberg San Francisco General Global AIDS, 2019
  • CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification athenaClinicals EHR, athenahealth, Inc, 2013
  • Top-rated primary care physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area Bay Area Consumer Checkbook, 2006
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Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

  • Sexually transmitted diseases and traumatic problems in homosexual men.  
    Owen WF Jr., Ann Intern Med 92(6):805-8
  • The clinical approach to the homosexual patient.  
    Owen WF Jr., Ann Intern Med 93(1):90-2
  • Medical aspects of homosexuality.  
    McGhee RD, Owen WF Jr., N Engl J Med 303(1):50-1
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Practical Care of the Ambulatory Patient. 
    Chapter: Medical evaluation of the gay male patient 
    Page 351 - 381Owen WF Jr.Editors: Stults BM, Dere WH.W.B. Saunders, Philadelphia
  • AIDS/HIV Experimental Treatment Directory. 
    Chapter: The changing nature of medicine in the era of HIV 
    Owen WF Jr.Editors: Abrams D, Gottlieb M, Grieco M.New York: American Foundation for AIDS Research
  • Textbook of Homosexuality and Mental Health. 
    Chapter: Gay and bisexual men and medical care 
    Page 673 - 686Owen WF Jr.Editors: Cabaj RP, Stein TS.American Psychiatric Press, Inc, Washington, D.C
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Abstracts/Posters

  • Measurement of body weight and body cell mass in patients receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART).
    Berger D, Bucher G, Cimoch P, Nemechek P, Owen W, Steinhart C, Sullivan-Bolyai JZ, 37th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Efficacy and Durability of Delavirdine in Pharmacokinetic Enhancement of Protease Inhibitors for AIDS Patients with Extensive Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) Experience.
    Owen WF Jr, Stein C, XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa
  • Multi-center analysis of delavirdine as a pharmacokinetic enhancer in HIV infected adults with extensive prior HIV treatment.
    Schutz MR, Owen WF, the 38th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, New Orleans, LA
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Other Languages

  • Portuguese

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