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Dr. O’dell Moreno Owens is a native Cincinnatian. Following graduation from Woodward High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Antioch College. Dr. Owens spent his third year of college at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, as a foreign exchange student.
Dr. Owens attended Yale University Medical School where he earned his M.D. degree. He was awarded the Irving Friedman Award as the Outstanding Chief Resident in the department of OB/GYN at Yale Medical School.
He served as a clinical instructor in the department of OB/GYN at Harvard Medical School, and was a Fellow in reproductive Endocrinology and infertility for two years.
He returned to his native Cincinnati in 1982 to establish the first division of reproductive endocrinology in the department of OB/GYN at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. During his four years that he served in the medical school, he established an in-vitro fertilization program and achieved Cincinnati's first successful conception and delivery. In November 1988, Dr. Owens announced Cincinnati's first pregnancy from a frozen embryo.
In 2004, Dr. Owens was elected as Hamilton County's Coroner and he currently holds the position of President and Chairman of the Board for Project GRAD (Graduation Really Achieves Dreams), a collaborative of the Cincinnati Public School system. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer to RISE Learning Solutions, Inc. a national non-profit organization that uses technology to bring world-class training to adults who care for pre-school aged children. Dr. Owens is actively involved in the Cincinnati community working with the disadvantaged youth to motivate them to reach their full potential.
