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Overview

Thomas J. Owens is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their work predominantly spans the field of Medicine, with a focus on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Genetics, and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism.

Their research topics include:

  • Maternal and fetal healthcare
  • Pregnancy and preeclampsia studies
  • Ectopic Pregnancy Diagnosis and Management
  • Maternal and Perinatal Health Interventions
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Ethics in Clinical Research
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease

Owens has contributed to various publications, with a strong presence in several journals over the years. Frequent publication venues include:

  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • American Journal of Perinatology
  • BMJ Public Health
  • American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM

Notable recent papers include:

  • Machine Learning for the Prediction of Surgical Morbidity in Placenta Accreta Spectrum (2024) in American Journal of Perinatology
  • Examining associations between social vulnerability and maternal morbidity among a multicentre cohort of pregnancies complicated by placenta accreta spectrum disorder in New York City (2024) in BMJ Public Health
  • Investigation of health inequities in maternal and neonatal outcomes of patients with placenta accreta spectrum: a multicenter study (2024) in American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology MFM
  • Policy and perceptions of pregnancy during training among residents of various subspecialties (2024) in Postgraduate Medical Journal
  • Community Collaboration in Public Health Genetic Literacy: Methods for Co-Designing Educational Resources for Equitable Genomics Research and Practice (2024) in Public Health Genomics

Owens has also contributed to academic books, including:

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Coleridge (2022), published by Cambridge University Press

Frequent collaborators in Owens' research include:

  • Lois Brustman
  • Georgios Doulaveris
  • Meghana Limaye
  • Henri M. Rosenberg
  • Rebecca H. Jessel

Best Publications

  • The TauP Toolkit: Flexible Seismic Travel-Time and Raypath Utilities

    H. Philip Crotwell;Thomas J. Owens

  • Implications of crustal property variations for models of Tibetan plateau evolution

    Thomas J. Owens;George Zandt;George Zandt

  • Seismic evidence for an ancient rift beneath the Cumberland Plateau, Tennessee: A detailed analysis of broadband teleseismic P waveforms

    Thomas J. Owens;George Zandt;Steven R. Taylor

  • Active foundering of a continental arc root beneath the southern Sierra Nevada in California

    George Zandt;Hersh Gilbert;Thomas J. Owens;Mihai Ducea

  • Shear wave anisotropy beneath the Tibetan Plateau

    Daniel E. McNamara;Thomas J. Owens;Paul G. Silver;Frances T. Wu

  • Upper mantle velocity structure beneath the Tibetan Plateau from Pn travel time tomography

    D. E. McNamara;D. E. McNamara;D. E. McNamara;W. R. Walter;T. J. Owens;C. J. Ammon

  • Observations of regional phase propagation across the Tibetan Plateau

    Daniel E. McNamara;Thomas J. Owens;William R. Walter

  • Upper mantle seismic velocity structure beneath Tanzania, east Africa: Implications for the stability of cratonic lithosphere

    Jeroen Ritsema;Jeroen Ritsema;Andrew A. Nyblade;Thomas J. Owens;Charles A. Langston

  • Azimuthal shear wave velocity anisotropy in the Basin and Range Province using moho Ps converted phases

    Daniel E. McNamara;Thomas J. Owens

  • Seismic evidence for a deep upper mantle thermal anomaly beneath east Africa

    Andrew A. Nyblade;Thomas J. Owens;Harold Gurrola;Jeroen Ritsema

  • Crustal structure at Regional Seismic Test Network stations determined from inversion of broadband teleseismic P waveforms

    Thomas J. Owens;Steven R. Taylor;George Zandt

  • Crustal structure of the East African Plateau from receiver functions and Rayleigh wave phase velocities

    Andrew A. Nyblade;Charles A. Langston;Thomas J. Owens

  • Slab geometry of the Cascadia Subduction Zone beneath Washington from earthquake hypocenters and teleseismic converted waves

    R. S. Crosson;T. J. Owens

  • The Use of Velocity Spectrum For Stacking Receiver Functions and Imaging Upper Mantle Discontinuities

    H. Gurrola;J. B. Minster;T. Owens

  • Propagation characteristics of Lg across the Tibetan Plateau

    D. E. McNamara;T. J. Owens;W. R. Walter

  • Shallow structure effects on broadband teleseismic P waveforms

    Thomas J. Owens;Robert S. Crosson

  • Automated Receiver Function Processing

    H. Philip Crotwell;Thomas J. Owens

  • Mantle transition zone structure beneath Tanzania, east Africa

    Thomas J. Owens;Andrew A. Nyblade;Harold Gurrola;Charles A. Langston

  • Deep crustal structure of the Indian shield from joint inversion of P wave receiver functions and Rayleigh wave group velocities: Implications for Precambrian crustal evolution

    J. Julià;J. Julià;S. Jagadeesh;S. S. Rai;T. J. Owens

  • Seismic experiment reveals rifting of craton in Tanzania

    Andrew A. Nyblade;Charles A. Langston;Christopher Birt

  • Moment tensor estimation using regional seismograms from a Tibetan Plateau portable network deployment

    George E. Randall;Charles J. Ammon;Thomas J. Owens

Frequent Co-Authors

George Zandt
George Zandt University of Arizona
Craig H. Jones
Craig H. Jones University of Colorado Boulder
Andrew A. Nyblade
Andrew A. Nyblade Pennsylvania State University
Charles A. Langston
Charles A. Langston University of Memphis
Daniel E. McNamara
Daniel E. McNamara United States Geological Survey
Francis T. Wu
Francis T. Wu Binghamton University
George Helffrich
George Helffrich Tokyo Institute of Technology
Charles J. Ammon
Charles J. Ammon Pennsylvania State University
Jeroen Ritsema
Jeroen Ritsema University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Jordi Julià
Jordi Julià Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

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