Yue Chen

Biography

Dr. Chen is a Professor in the School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa. He currently holds a Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Investigator Award (2000-05). Dr. Chen received his medical degree and doctorate in epidemiology from the Shanghai Medical University. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Saskatchewan. He worked at the University of Saskatchewan for six years as an Assistant /Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine (Centre for Agricultural Medicine) and Community Health & Epidemiology. He received a National Health Research Scholar Award from National Health Research and Development Program (NHRDP), Health Canada (1994-97, 1998-2000).  Dr. Chen's interests are in the areas of chronic disease epidemiology (cardio-respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes). He is mostly interested in the environmental, genetic and social determinants of chronic lung diseases including asthma and COPD and of lung dysfunction. He is a member of research grant review committee of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Selected recent publications: Chen Y, Dales R, Tang M, Krewski D. Obesity may increase the incidence of asthma in women but not in men: Longitudinal observations from the Canadian National Population Health Surveys. Am J Epidemiol 2002;155: 191-7. Chen Y, Schnell AH, Rennie DC, Elston RC, Lockinger LA, Dosman JA. Segregation Analyses of Asthma and Respiratory Allergy. Am J Med Genet 2001;104:23-30. Chen Y, Tang M, Krewski D, Dales R. Association between income adequacy and asthma prevalence in Canadians. JAMA 2001;286:919-20. Chen Y, Breithaupt K, Muhajarine N. Occurrence of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease among Canadians and sex-related risk factors. J Clin Epidemiol 2000;53:755-61. Chen Y, Thompson W, Semenciw R, Mao Y. Epidemiology of Contralateral Breast Cancer. Cancer Epidemiol Biomark Prev 1999;8:855-61. Chen Y. Genetic epidemiology of pulmonary function. Thorax 1999;54:818-24. Chen Y, Dosman JA, Rennie DC, Lockinger LA. Major genetic mechanism of airway-parenchymal dysanapsis of the lung. Genet Epidemiol 1999;16:95-110. Chen Y, Rennie DC, Lockinger LA, Dosman JA. Effect of environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on cough in children with history of tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy. Eur Respir J 1998;11:1319-23.  

Research Interest

 Dr. Chen's interests are in the areas of chronic disease epidemiology (cardio-respiratory disease, cancer, diabetes). He is mostly interested in the environmental, genetic and social determinants of chronic lung diseases including asthma and COPD and of lung dysfunction.