Eileen Alanna Owen-Williams PhD, DNP, RN, FNP-BC (Ret), CNM (Ret), AFN-BC (Ret), FAANP
Dr. Owen-Williams is currently practicing as an Advanced Practice Consultant with the Arizona Board of Nursing. Eileen has been an educator and advanced practice clinician for over 39 years and was active in establishing the nurse practitioner role, educational programs, and associated clinical and NP program certifications within the United States, Australia and Canada. Dr.Owen-Williams has practiced in forensics as a sexual assault examiner over the past 29 years, specializing as a forensic clinician, consultant, educator, and expert witness in the areas of child sexual abuse, elder abuse, and medical negligence, and actively pursues the inclusion of forensics into nursing curricula.
Dr. Owen-Williams completed her studies as a Family Nurse Practitioner with a research focus on sexual abuse of children for her Master’s thesis at the University of Washington in 1979-1983. She continued her clinical graduate education in Nurse Midwifery at the University of California at San Diego and Oregon Health Sciences University, to foster integration of perinatal care within her primary care practice. Dr. Owen-Williams received a Doctorate of Nursing Practice at the University of Tennessee in Forensic Nursing in 2006, with a focus on sexual assault and obtained certification as one of the first Advanced Practice Forensic Nurses. She completed PhD studies at the University of Tennessee, with a research focus on elder abuse and intergenerational relationships within First Nations communities in Northern British Columbia.
Dr. Owen-Williams’ recent clinical practice in the remote Aleutian peninsula and islands in Alaska has acted to inform her roles in nursing education, nursing regulation, and medicolegal consulting. Eileen has been an invited speaker internationally at Oxford University in the UK, Canada, and Australia including addressing the Clinical Senate of Western Australia regarding Indigenous health disparities, forensics, advanced nursing education and clinical practice, and rural and remote primary care.Dr. Owen-Williams was the recipient of a Community Based Participatory Fellowship at Seattle University from 2011-2013, as well as a Visiting Scholar Fellowship at Curtin University in Perth, Australia in 2013. Dr. Owen-Williams was recently inducted into the Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners in 2015, and in April, received the 2017 National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties award for Outstanding Faculty Practice within the United States.