Biography
Professor Shi Wu Wen is currently a senior scientist of Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, and a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He is also a visiting professor at Central South University in China. Dr. Wen received his PhD in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from McGill University in 1993. Before joining the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/University of Ottawa in 2001, he was an Associate Researcher at the University of Toronto and a Senior Epidemiologist at Health Canada. Dr. Wen's research focuses on the impact of preconception and prenatal exposures (interventions) on maternal and infant outcomes, both short- and long-term. In order to maximize research efficiency, in addition to large-scale clinical trials and prospective cohort studies, his research also makes extensive use of existing large population health databases in Canada, the United States, China, and internationally. Dr. Wen has published more than 390 peer-reviewed papers, including New England Journal of Medicine, Nature-Medicine, Journal of American Medical Association and other top journals, as well as American Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Epidemiology, Pediatrics, American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Obstetrics and Gynecology and other first-class journals have published more than 100 papers, with more than 60 first authors and more than 130 corresponding authors.
