Mikah Owen Named Co-Principal Investigator of UCAAN

Mikah Owen, MD, has been named as a principal investigator of the UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN), the organization that implements the ACEs Aware initiative on behalf of the California Department of Health Care Services and the Office of the California Surgeon General, effective immediately.

Dr. Owen has served as UCAAN’s Senior Director of Clinical and Academic Programs and Health Equity since August 2022. He joins Shannon Thyne, MD, from UCLA and Edward Machtinger, MD, from UCSF, as co-principal investigators.

Dr. Owen is a practicing pediatrician who works with system-impacted youth in the Sacramento County juvenile justice system. Prior to joining UCAAN, he was a clinical advisor to the ACEs Aware initiative and an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UC Davis. Owen earned an MD at UCSF and completed his Pediatric Residency at UC Davis and a fellowship in Community and Societal Pediatrics at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville. He also completed the Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale University.