Dr David Owen
Holistic Physician, Coach, and Supervisor
Title of presentation:
Reflections on health. Key principles of healing that underlie homeopathic, holistic, integrative and functional medicine
Dr David Owen
MBBS MRCS LRCP FFHom
Dr David Owen is a long-standing Member and Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy. He has served on many of the Faculty's Standing Committees, including the Faculty Council, and led the organisation as President from 1996 to 1998. He also served as the Faculty of Homeopathy's GMC Responsible Officer.
Dr Owen started in Homeopathic and Holistic practice in 1982 and then went on to be a co-founder of the Homeopathic Physicians Teaching Group (HPTG) to promote the training of Doctors and Vets. He was a member of the South West Deanery tutor group, training GP trainers and educators from 2010 to 2024, and is passionate about the importance of career-long supervision to support all health professionals to maintain and develop their practice. In 1997, he won the Joan Dawkins Educational Prize for the development of a Familiarisation Module in CAM.
He was a Principal Clinical Teaching Fellow at the School of Medicine, Southampton University, from 2006 to 2018.
He has authored several books, including "Principles and Practice of Homeopathy", published by Elsevier in 2007, and "Clinical Supervision in the Medical Profession", published by Open University Press in 2012.
He retired from Clinical practice in 2025 and is currently taking time to think, whilst enjoying being a part-time Grandparent, Coach, and Supervisor.
