Divisions & Faculty

Background

MD Degree: The Medical College of Virginia

Internship in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital
Medical Center, The University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Residency in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center
The University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Chief Resident of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Medical Center
The University of Cincinnati, Ohio

Fellow and Clinical Instructor in Neonatology and Pediatrics
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Board Certifications

• National Board of Medical Examiners
• American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatrics
• American Board of Pediatrics, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  

Professional Services

National Board of  Medical Examiners  (NBME)       
1997-  Step 2 R-set Task Force
2004-present     USMLE Step 2 Test Material Development Committee for Pediatrics

Review Board
1987 - Grants to the North Carolina Board of Science and Technology
(Virginia State Governor's Office)

Reviewer 

1989 - present - Journal of Pediatrics
1992 - present - Academic Medicine
1995 - Educational Guidelines for Residency Training in General Pediatrics
2001 - HRSA Administrative Academic Grants
2003 – present – Journal of Pernatology

Judge, 1989, Northeast Regional Science Fair Greenville, North Carolina

Clinical Interests

• Newborn pulmonary pathophysiology

Honors and Awards

Professional Affiliations

• American Academy of Pediatrics
• Ambulatory Pediatric Society (APS)
• American Academy of Pediatrics/Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  
• American Academy of Pediatrics - Virginia Chapter
  American Medical Association
  
• Southern Society for Pediatric Research (SSPR)
  
• Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP)
  
• Pediatric Program Directors Association (APPD)
  
• Medical Society of Virginia
  
• Tidewater Pediatric Society
  
• AAMC:  Group on Institutional Advancement, Group on Undergraduate Education, Group on Graduate Medical Education, Group on Continuing Medical Education, Group on Research in Medical Education
  

Grants

Burroughs Wellcome Company
Arthur Kopelman (PI), C.W. Gowen, Stephen Engelke, John Wimmer, Alex Robertson.  "The study of
EXOSURF in neonates with Respiratory Distress Syndrome", 1989-1990 ($50,000)

Burroughs Wellcome Company
C.W. Gowen (PI).  "Study of the effect of EXOSURF on ion transport across the respiratory
epithelium", 1989-1990. ($5,000)

East Carolina University School of Medicine
C.W. Gowen (PI).  "Nasal PD and Ouabain studies in neonates with RDS", ECU (Starter) Grant,
1989-1990 ($5,000)

Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.  Grant to bring in special visiting professor to CHKD, 1991. 
($4,000)

Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.  Grant to bring in special visiting professor to CHKD, 1995. 
($4,000)

Children=s Hospital of The King=s Daughters
Lawrence Pasquinelli (PI), C.W. Gowen, Stephen Buescher, Eric Werner
AMedical Information Access Through Use of a Networked Computer System@
Informatics Grant, CHKD, 1996.  ($6,815)

Eastern Virginia Medical School - Institutional Grant., The Role of Sodium Transport in RDS in Premature Infants.  1997.  ($7,000)

Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.  Grant to bring in special visiting professor to CHKD, 1999. 
($4,000)

Ronald McDonald Children's Charities.  Grant to bring in special visiting professor to CHKD, 2002.  ($4,000)

Selected Publications

Mehrabani D, Gowen CW, Cruze M, Kopelman A: Pneumothorax with systemic hypotension and
intraventricular hemorrhage in premature neonates. Archives of Disease in Childhood 1991; 66:48-51.

Gowen, CW, Gowen MA:  Colonic PDs in infants and children with cystic fibrosis.
Journal of Pediatrics, 1991; 118(3):412-415.

Gowen CW: Care of the High-Risk Neonate. Conn's Current Therapy, Edited byRobert E. Rakel, M.D., W.B. Saunders, 1995

Karlowicz G and Gowen CW:  Bronchopleural fistula and pneumothorax - compliactions of transpyloric feeding tube insertion. Journal of Perinatology 15(5):
432-433, 1995.

Barker PM, Gowen CW, Lawson EE, Knowles MR: Decreased sodium ion absorption across nasal epithelium of very premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome. J. Pediatr 1997; 130:373-377.

Kossoff EH, Hubbard TW, Gowen CW.  Early Clinical Experience Enhances Third-year Pediatrics Clerkship Performance.  Acad. Med. 1999; 74:1238-1241.

Major D, Fletcher T, Gowen CW.  Pediatricians= Motives for Volunteering: A Functional Approach. (Submitted to the Journal of Applied Social Psychology).

Gowen CW.  Nelson’s Essentials of Pediatrics (54th Edition), Section of Fetal & Neonatal Medicine,   (pages 271-335), 2005