Dr. Jenny Owens is the Assistant Dean in the Graduate School and Faculty Executive Director of the Graduate Research Innovation District, �the Grid.� Jenny is a passionate social entrepreneur with a decade of experience in higher education, seven of those years at UMB in a graduate health science and human services environment. Jenny�s research interests include social innovation, academic entrepreneurship, and patient-centered healthcare design. Dr. Owens has a doctorate in Information and Interaction Design which emphasizes human-centered design and design thinking. Her master�s program focused heavily on business systems, marketing, finance, and organizational behavior. These graduate degrees, along with her undergraduate foundation in principles of health, anatomy, and physiology, give her a unique background in health science, business, and design-thinking.
BA University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2007 MS East Stroudsburg University; ScD University of Baltimore 2015.�