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George Wells

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ProfessorSchool of Epidemiology and Public HealthUniversity of Ottawa

George Wells

Professor

School of Epidemiology and Public Health

Faculty of Medicine

University of Ottawa

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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36 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 4 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 21 research grants (21 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 6 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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152

Publications

2,326

Citations

h-index

189

Collaborators

Grants

Publications by year

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Research

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Network Meta-Analysis Systematic Review Safety Heart Failure Cardiac Allograft Vasculopathy Clinical Trial Heart Transplantation Antiplatelet Therapy

Latest papers

Active surveillance for the safety and effectiveness of health products for COVID-19: a scoping review.
Frontiers in pharmacology · 2026 · senior author
The Risk of Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness (RoB-VE) project: introduction to a methodological initiative to improve risk-of-bias assessment and reporting in vaccine effectiveness research.
Journal of clinical epidemiology · 2026
Paper 1: a semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence in a network meta-analysis: part 1 – Direct comparisons
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology · 2026

All 152 publications

Latest funding

Comparative Effectiveness of Cytisine to Combination Nicotine Replacement Therapy and Varenicline for Smoking Cessation: A Randomized Controlled Trial (CanQuit RCT)
CIHR · 2026 · Co-investigator
$952,426
Exercise Training in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation: A Randomized Controlled Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,000
Early Initiation of Antiplatelet Therapy in Heart Transplantation - AERIAL International Trial
CIHR · 2025 · Principal investigator
$2,516,852

All 96 grants and awards

From the 150 most recent of 152 publications.

Active surveillance for the safety and effectiveness of health products for COVID-19: a scoping review.

Yousef S, Bai Z, Kelly SE, Skidmore B, Wells G

Frontiers in pharmacology2026Senior author

DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2026.1752571 PMID: 42004605

The Risk of Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness (RoB-VE) project: introduction to a methodological initiative to improve risk-of-bias assessment and reporting in vaccine effectiveness research.

Laurie C, Alonso Coello P, Florez ID, Lê M, Moher D, Sadarangani M, Sundaram ME, Wells G, Wilkinson K, Dwan K, Halperin SA, Nicholls SG, Reeves BC, Sharma Waddington H, Shea B, Brouwers M, Sulis G

Journal of clinical epidemiology2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.112088 PMID: 41297718

Paper 1: a semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence in a network meta-analysis: part 1 – Direct comparisons

Kamso MM, Whittle SL, Pardo JP, Buchbinder R, Wells G, Deardon R, Sajobi T, Tomlinson G, Elliott J, Thomas J

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology20262 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.112109

Paper 2: a semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence for in a network meta-analysis: part 2 – indirect and mixed comparisons

Kamso MM, Whittle SL, Pardo JP, Buchbinder R, Wells G, Deardon R, Sajobi T, Tomlinson G, Elliott J, Thomas J

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology20261 citations

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.112110

Magnesium in acute pediatric asthma in the emergency department (MAGICIAN)—A multicentre randomized controlled clinical trial protocol

Schuh S, O’Shea S, Freedman SB, Eltorki M, Gravel J, Ducharme FM, Alqurashi W, Zemek R, Wells G, Elliott J

PLoS ONE2026

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0349553

Cost-effectiveness of population screening for aortic stenosis.

Motazedian P, Prosperi-Porta G, Hibbert B, Jalal H, Labinaz M, Burwash IG, Abdel-Razek O, Di Santo P, Simard T, Wells G, Coyle D

European heart journal. Quality of care & clinical outcomes2025

DOI: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcae043 PMID: 38777625

The Unique Needs and Challenges of Young Females After Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.

Lalande K, Bouchard K, Coutinho T, Mulvagh S, Pacheco C, Liu S, Saw J, So D, Reed JL, Chiarelli A, Robert H, Lappa N, Wells G, Tulloch H

Journal of cardiopulmonary rehabilitation and prevention2025

DOI: 10.1097/hcr.0000000000000929 PMID: 40167519

The Effect of Patient Decision Aid Attributes on Patient Outcomes: A Network Meta-Analysis of a Systematic Review.

Stacey D, Carley M, Gunderson J, Hsieh SC, Kelly SE, Lewis KB, Smith M, Volk RJ, Wells G

Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1177/0272989x251318640 PMID: 39968925

Updating the PRISMA reporting guideline for network meta-analysis: a scoping review.

Veroniki AA, Tricco AC, Rangira D, McKenzie JE, Li T, Straus SE, Smith M, Catalá-López F, Wolfe D, Nincic V, Konstantinidis M, Franco J, Tovey D, Thirugnanasampanthar SS, Dourka J, Warren R, Wells G, Stevens A, Hutton B

Journal of clinical epidemiology2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111985 PMID: 40976519

Inferior vena cava thrombosis associated with endovascular cooling catheters: impact on clinical outcomes.

Laverdure M, So D, Chong AY, Dick A, Froeschl M, Glover C, Labinaz M, Wells G, Bernick J, May ML

Resuscitation2025

DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110784 PMID: 40846087

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George Wells

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Active surveillance for the safety and effectiveness of health products for COVID-19: a scoping review.

The Risk of Bias in Vaccine Effectiveness (RoB-VE) project: introduction to a methodological initiative to improve risk-of-bias assessment and reporting in vaccine effectiveness research.

Paper 1: a semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence in a network meta-analysis: part 1 – Direct comparisons

Paper 2: a semi-automated approach facilitated the assessment of the certainty of evidence for in a network meta-analysis: part 2 – indirect and mixed comparisons

Magnesium in acute pediatric asthma in the emergency department (MAGICIAN)—A multicentre randomized controlled clinical trial protocol

Cost-effectiveness of population screening for aortic stenosis.

The Unique Needs and Challenges of Young Females After Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection.

The Effect of Patient Decision Aid Attributes on Patient Outcomes: A Network Meta-Analysis of a Systematic Review.

Updating the PRISMA reporting guideline for network meta-analysis: a scoping review.

Inferior vena cava thrombosis associated with endovascular cooling catheters: impact on clinical outcomes.

Frequent collaborators

Peter Tugwell

Jeff Healey

Doug Coyle

Ratika Parkash

Vidal Essebag

Julian Little

Michel Le May

Pablo Nery

Beverley Shea

Vivian Welch

Marino Labinaz

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Derek So

Tammy Clifford

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