Philip Steven Wells

Philip Steven Wells is a Canadian hematologist and current chair and Chief of Medicine at the University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital. He is considered an expert in thromboembolic disorders and is known for developing the Wells risk score for pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis.

Early life Wells was born and raised in Kincardine, Ontario. An athletic student, he was highly active in his high school athletic team. In 1978, he attained Canadian National Junior Champion status as a high jumper.

Education Wells attended the University College, Toronto for his undergraduate degree in 1978. While there, he competed on the varsity track and field team and placed second in the Canadian Senior Track and Field Championships/1982 Commonwealth Games Trials meeting the Olympic standard of 2.18 metres that year.

Wells attended the University of Ottawa for medical school, graduating with his M.D. magna cum laude in 1984. In 1994, he moved back to the University of Ottawa becoming an assistant professor. In 1996, he was appointed Program Director for the Hematology Training program then he assumed the role of Chief and Chair of Hematology in 1998 and a Full Professor of Medicine with a cross appointment to Epidemiology and Community Medicine in 2003. In 2007, he was made the Deputy Head of Research in the Department of Medicine and in 2009, he was made the chair and Chief of Medicine at the University of Ottawa. From 2012 to 2015, he was the President of the Canadian Association for Professors of Medicine.

Family Wells is married and has two children, one studying medicine and the other studying to become a chiropractor.

Awards University of Ottawa Lifetime Achievement Award - 2014 The Ottawa Hospital J. David Grimes Career Achievement Award - 2012 Canada Research Chair Award in Thromboembolic Diseases - July 2001 - June 2011 Ottawa Health Research Institute, Dr Michel Chretien Researcher of the Year in 2009.