Kelly OwensAug 27, 20213 minThe Aim of Art and Life: Ask the Big QuestionsIn this age we are in where we are bombarded by information constantly, I worry that we are losing the overarching story of our own...
Kelly OwensAug 8, 20215 minWayfinding with Doug BoydThis painting in our living room is by my favorite artist, Doug Boyd. Sometimes on the weekends while we were living in Hawaii, we would...
Kelly OwensMay 12, 20211 minThe Patient PerspectiveI had the pleasure of presenting at the MRSI Workshop for Clinical Translation of Implantable Devices on August 27, 2020. This workshop...
Kelly OwensMay 6, 20215 minWhen Good Intentions Become Red TapeAs I watched President Biden’s recent address to Congress, I heard a familiar theme weaved throughout: the spirit of our American...
Kelly OwensFeb 21, 20216 minA sneak peek into my memoir, The Road to VagusExcerpt from the subchapter Wrecking Ball, hospitalization of 2015: During that first ten days in the hospital, I was in terrible...
Kelly OwensFeb 8, 20212 minThe Predicament of Bioelectronic MedicineIn 1908, an amateur American geologist named Frank Bursley Taylor noticed that the coastlines of Africa and South America were similar,...
Kelly OwensNov 13, 20202 minBrainstem neurons are regulators of inflammationLed by the remarkable scientist and lovely human, Dr. Sangeeta Chavan, she and her team discovered a small cluster of neurons within the...
Kelly OwensNov 13, 20204 minThe Neural TourniquetOver the last twenty years, researchers at the Feinstein Institute have been investigating how to harness the power of the vagus nerve to...
Kelly OwensNov 13, 20201 minDecoding the 'Wandering Nerve'This article explains how Dr. Theo Zanos decoded the signals sent by TNF and IL-1 (both inflammatory cytokines) in the vagus nerve. The...
Kelly OwensNov 13, 20202 minThe Evolution of Bioelectronic MedicineSetPoint Medical released a new paper that goes into detail about the evolution of bioelectronic medicine. There has been a long history...
Kelly OwensOct 27, 20201 minUnstoppableRecently, I had the pleasure of being interviewed for Authority Magazine’s ‘Unstoppable’ series. We talked about my experiences with...
Kelly OwensOct 5, 20206 minRevolutionary Research and the Autonomy of PatientsWhat does it say about the health of our nation when every other commercial on TV is for an immune-suppressing biologic? Each commercial...
Kelly OwensOct 2, 20203 minThe research of today is the healthcare of tomorrow and we are only as far away from it as we chooseOne of the hurdles we face in translating bioelectronic medicine from bench to bedside is a philosophical shift in how providers think...
Kelly OwensDec 16, 201915 minA Lingering Legacy, and Continued HopeHello all, below you will find a series of blog posts regarding a recent experience I had due to the discovery of a legacy issue of...
Kelly OwensAug 22, 20193 minThe Woman I Have Become Because of My Crohn’s Disease*written in 2015, pre-VNS There is a picture painted in my mind of what my life should be — a parallel universe — and there’s no room in...
Kelly OwensAug 22, 20195 minWhat 'Interstellar' Taught Me About Living With Crohn's Disease*written in 2015, pre-VNS We are given a finite amount of time to breathe on this planet. In an infinite universe that stretches across...
Kelly OwensAug 15, 20195 min"The Placebo Effect"I sat down at table ten, an eight-foot round at the back of the room with a sign on it titled ‘Human-Centered Experience.’ It was a...
Kelly OwensJul 23, 201910 minNew Beginnings*written January 21, 2019 Happy Monday, everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve published anything on the website; life has been in...
Kelly OwensJul 17, 20194 minWelcome. Well, hello there, everyone! Welcome to vagusnervegirl.com! I’m Kelly Owens. I struggled with Crohn’s disease for 15 years before I found...