Additional Titles & Roles
- Medical Director, Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic
- Member, School of Medicine Committee on Admissions
Education & Training
- NIMH Postdoctoral Research Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2014
- Residency: Washington University, St. Louis, MO, 2011
- MD: University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, Oklahoma City, OK, 2007
- BA: Philosophy: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2003
- BS: Zoology: University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, 2003
Major Awards
- Washington University Department of Psychiatry Resident Mentoring Award, 2020
- Washington University Department of Psychiatry Excellence In Teaching Award, 2015, 2016, 2018, 2021
- The Eli Robins Award for Excellence in Clinical Psychiatry, in Teaching, and in Research, Washington University Department of Psychiatry, 2011
Areas of Clinical Interest
General Psychiatry, Consultation Psychiatry, Psycho-Oncology
Research Interests
Schizophrenia spectrum disorders, psychosis risk, general medicine-psychiatry interface
Key Publications
- Owoso A, Jansen S, Ndetei DM, Musau A, Mutiso VN, Mudenge C, Ngirababyeyi A, Gasovya A, Mamah D, (2018 Apr). A comparative study of psychotic and affective symptoms in Rwandan and Kenyan students. Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 27(2): 157-168.
Read publication »A comparative study of psychotic and affective symptoms in Rwandan and Kenyan students. - Mamah D, Owoso A, Sheffield JM, Bayer C (2014 Oct). The WERCAP Screen and the WERC Stress Screen: psychometrics of self-rated instruments for assessing bipolar and psychotic disorder risk and perceived stress burden. Compr Psychiatry. 55(7): 1757-71.
Read publication »The WERCAP Screen and the WERC Stress Screen: psychometrics of self-rated instruments for assessing bipolar and psychotic disorder risk and perceived stress burden. - Owoso A, Ndetei DM, Mbwayo AW, Mutiso VN, Khasakhala LI, Mamah D (2014 Feb). Validation of a modified version of the PRIME screen for psychosis-risk symptoms in a non-clinical Kenyan youth sample. Compr Psychiatry. 55(2): 380-7.
Read publication »Validation of a modified version of the PRIME screen for psychosis-risk symptoms in a non-clinical Kenyan youth sample. - Owoso A, Carter CS, Gold JM, Macdonald AW, Ragland JD, Silverstein SM, Strauss ME, Barch DM (2013 Dec). Cognition in schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder: impairments that are more similar than different. Psychol Med. 43(12): 2535-45.
Read publication »Cognition in schizophrenia and schizo-affective disorder: impairments that are more similar than different. - Mamah D, Owoso A, Mbwayo AW, Mutiso VN, Muriungi SK, Khasakhala LI, Barch DM, Ndetei DM (2013 Jun). Classes of psychotic experiences in Kenyan children and adolescents. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 44(3): 452-9.
Read publication »Classes of psychotic experiences in Kenyan children and adolescents. - Thirumangalakudi L, Samany PG, Owoso A, Wiskar B, Grammas P (2006 Sep). Angiogenic proteins are expressed by brain blood vessels in Alzheimer’s disease. J Alzheimers Dis. 10(1): 111-8.
Read publication »Angiogenic proteins are expressed by brain blood vessels in Alzheimer’s disease.