Shi Wu Wen, MB, PhD

Telephone: 613-737-8899 ext. 73912
Fax: (613) 737-8402 Email: swwen@ohri.ca

Senior Scientist & Associate Director, Education and Training, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute
Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine

Dr. Shi Wu Wen is a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Epidemiology Program at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and in the Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, and member of the Faculty of Graduate Studies at the University of Ottawa, and Visiting Professor of Anhui Medical University and Central-South University in China.

Coming from Health Canada in 2001, Dr. Wen has worked with Dr. Mark Walker, to create an internationally recognized program of research in perinatal epidemiology. The focus of this program is fetal origins of adult disease, perinatal environmental epidemiology, and global perinatal health. Most recently they were awarded a $6.5 million grant to study the effects of folic acid supplementation in decreasing the risk of pre-eclampsia. In the past six years, Dr. Wen has served for the Ottawa Hospital Research Ethics Board and various department committees.

Dr. Wen has been teaching research methodology and epidemiologic principles at the undergraduate, post-graduate and fellowship levels. He has been invited to give lectures in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Thomas Jefferson University, National University of Taiwan, McGill University, and several key medical schools in China.

He has published over 170articles in a variety of top tier medical journals.

Most Recent Publications (provided by The Ottawa Hospital Library Database)

Zhou L; He G; Zhang J; Xie R; Walker M; Wen SW, (2011 Mar 2), Risk factors of obesity in preschool children in an urban area in China, Eur J Pediatr, -> view abstract

Yang J; Xie RH; Krewski D; Wang YJ; Walker M; Wen SW, (2011 Feb 21), Exposure to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole but not other FDA category C and D anti-infectives is associated with increased risks of preterm birth and low birth weight, Int J Infect Dis, -> view abstract

Smith GN; Guo Y; Wen SW; Walker MC, (2010 Sep 2), Secondary analysis of the use of transdermal nitroglycerin for preterm labor, Am J Obstet Gynecol , Vol.203, Issue 6, 565 -> view abstract

Liu N; Wen SW; Katherine W; Bottomley J; Yang Q; Walker MC, (2010 Nov), Neighbourhood family income and adverse birth outcomes among singleton deliveries, J Obstet Gynaecol Can, Vol.32, Issue 11, 1042-1048 -> view abstract

Wen SW; Leader A; White RR; Leveille MC; Wilkie V; Zhou J; Walker MC, (2010 Mar 4), A comprehensive assessment of outcomes in pregnancies conceived by in vitro fertilization/intracytoplasmic sperm injection, Eur J Obstet Gynecol Reprod Biol, Vol.150, Issue 2, 160-165 -> view abstract

Hong Z; Wu J; Tisdell C; O'Leary C; Gomes J; Wen SW; Njoo H, (2010 Jan), Cost-benefit analysis of preventing nosocomial bloodstream infections among hemodialysis patients in Canada in 2004, Value Health, Vol.13, Issue 1, 42-45 -> view abstract

Guo Y; Xie R; Wen SW; Walker MC; Smith GN, (2010 Dec), Maternal transdermal nitroglycerin use and early childhood development, J Obstet Gynaecol Can, Vol.32, Issue 12, 1147-1152 -> view abstract

Xie RH; Liao S; Xie H; Guo Y; Walker M; Wen SW, (2010 Aug 24), Infant sex, family support and postpartum depression in a Chinese cohort, J Epidemiol Community Health, -> view abstract

Xie RH; Yang J; Liao S; Xie H; Walker M; Wen SW, (2010 Aug), Prenatal family support, postnatal family support and postpartum depression, Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol , Vol.50, Issue 4, 340-345 -> view abstract

Liu N; Wen SW; Manual DG; Katherine W; Bottomley J; Walker MC, (2010), Social disparity and the use of intrapartum epidural analgesia in a publicly funded health care system, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vol.202, Issue 3, 273 -> view abstract

Note: This is not a complete list of publications. More publications may be available in The Ottawa Hospital Library database and Pubmed (search by last name and initials).