Dr. Doris Yuen, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Member, Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, UWO
Biography:
Dr. Doris Yuen received her medical degree from the University of British Columbia in 1988 and her doctoral degree in nutritional biochemistry from the University of Guelph in 1987. She completed her pediatric residency training at The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids), Toronto and received specialist certification in Pediatrics, FRCPC in 1992 and FAAP in 1995. She was the Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine subspecialty co-chief resident at The Hospital for Sick Children (Sick Kids), Toronto from 1991-1993 and a Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine research fellow at Ottawa’s Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario from 1993-1994. She was an associate member of the Division of Neonatology, Ottawa’s Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ottawa Hospital, General Campus from 1994-2001. She was Chair of the Canadian Pediatric Society Nutrition Committee from 1998-2002. Dr. Yuen joined the Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine at St. Joseph's Health Care, London in 2002 and has been the Postgraduate Education Director for Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine since 2004. As of 2008, Dr. Yuen is also the Associate Program Director for the University of Western Ontario Pediatric Residency Training Program.
Research Activities
The focus of Dr. Yuen’s research is in the field of neonatal gastroenterology and nutrition. Based on the findings of Dr. Yuen’s animal studies on vitamin A and gut wound healing, she has completed a pilot clinical trial in preterm infants, in collaboration with David Knoppert (Clinical Pharmacology). The follow-up study will aim to determine the vitamin A requirements of very low birth weight preterm infants. Dr. Yuen’s clinical nutrition research is focused on the development, implementation and evaluation of evidence-based nutrition practice guidelines for preterm infants. The objective of her current project is to develop and evaluate the evidence-based post NICU discharge nutrition resources for community health care providers.
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Post Discharge Infant Nutrition Clinic London, Ontario |
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Wee Footprints, Touch Many Hearts |
