Appointment of Dr. Phil Wells as the Chair of the Department of Medicine
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Phil Wells as the Chair of the Department of Medicine. Congratulations Dr. Wells, welcome to the team!
Philip S. Wells, MD, FRCPC
Canada Research Chair in Thromboembolic Disease
Professor, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine
University of Ottawa
Chief / Chair Department of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital
Director of Clinical Research, The Ottawa Hospital
Associate Director, Clinical Research, Ottawa Health Research Institute
Deputy Head of Research, Dept of Medicine, The Ottawa Hospital
| Graduate degrees: | MD – Magna cum laude (University of Ottawa, 1984) |
Dr. Wells is Professor and Chief of the Division of Hematology at the University of Ottawa. He is a Canada Research Chair and a senior scientist in the Ottawa Health Research Institute. He leads a clinical and research Thrombosis Unit. This unit is supported by over four million dollars in peer-reviewed funding and performs both laboratory and clinical trials research in the area of venous thromboembolism. Dr. Wells’ particular interests have been in the area of improving diagnosis in patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism and novel ways of treating patients. Economic issues associated with diagnostic and treatment issues have also been an interest as well as meta-analytic techniques for determining efficiencies of treatments that have not been subjected to large-scale clinical trials. More recently, he has been looking at risks associated with thrombotic disorders and an inherited predisposition towards thrombosis (thrombophilia). He has established new paradigms in diagnosis and treatment and new paradigms in the approach to evaluating the risks of thrombosis in the post-operative period.