Owen graduated from medicine at Newcastle University in 2004 and moved to Melbourne in 2006. He completed the Victorian Orthopaedic training in 2016, being accepted as a Fellow into the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the Australian Orthopaedic Association. After working as a Visiting Orthopaedic Surgeon at Box Hill and Sandringham Hospitals he completed further specialist training in 2017 and 2018. Owen was a fellow with the Sydney Shoulder Research Institute, under the guidance of Mr Ben Cass, Mr Allan Young and Mr Jeff Hughes. He then completed a further Upper Limb fellowship at Wrightington Hospital in the United Kingdom, working with Mr Mike Walton, Prof Len Funk, Prof Adam Watts and Mr Steve Bale.
Having returned to Melbourne, Owen currently operates publicly at Sandringham District Hospital, Box Hill Hospital and Frankston Hospital.
He currently consults out of Linacre Private Hospital and locally to Peninsula Private hospital in Langwarrin.
Owen has a keen interest in conditions affecting the shoulder and elbow as well general orthopaedic trauma.