William Owens MD

William Owens, MD, is a Critical Care Medicine specialist at Prisma Health Richland, a tertiary referral center in Columbia, SC, and a Clinical Professor of Medicine with the University of South Carolina Floyd School of Medicine. He has also served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has served as the Director of the Medical Intensive Care Unit and as Division Chief during his career.

Dr. Owens is a 1996 graduate of The Citadel and received his medical degree in 2000 from the University of South Carolina Floyd School of Medicine. He trained in Emergency Medicine at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Baton Rouge, LA. This was followed by fellowship training in Critical Care Medicine at the University of South Florida in Tampa, FL. He is board-certified in Emergency Medicine, Critical Care Medicine, and Neurocritical Care Medicine. In addition to speaking at regional and national conferences and publishing articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature, Dr. Owens is also the primary author of textbooks related to mechanical ventilation and critical care medicine. He has published three editions of The Ventilator Book, two editions of The Advanced Ventilator Book, and created The Ventilator App. His latest project is an interactive learning curriculum for mechanical ventilation designed for medical students, residents, Advanced Practice Providers, and anyone else who cares for the critically ill. The Ventilator Workbook promises to be a step forward in medical education and is now available online.

Throughout his career, Dr. Owens has been an active clinician and educator. He enjoys training physicians, nurses, and respiratory therapists in the care of the most seriously ill and injured patients and is a firm subscriber to a holistic approach toward critical care medicine. He believes in the rational application of physiology and in always questioning our assumptions.

Dr. Owens lives in Columbia, SC, with his wife, Lorien. They have three children (William, Zach, and Amelia) who are busy carving their own paths in the world. He also lives with a St. Bernard and a beehive with about 60,000 bees. He enjoys mountain biking, whitewater paddling, woodworking, and going on family adventures.