{"id":11679,"date":"2019-06-29T16:20:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/?p=11679"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:31:50","slug":"dr-brett-thombs-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/en\/dr-brett-thombs-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Brett Thombs &#8211; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/dr-brett-thombs-biographie\/thombs\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11660\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11660 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Thombs-200x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Thombs-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Thombs.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Brett Thombs, Director of SPIN<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Thombs and his team focus on developing strategies to improve quality of life and reduce disability among people living with scleroderma. He is the Founder and Director of the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN), a patient-researcher collaboration that maintains an ongoing cohort of &gt; 2,000 patients from over 40 sites in 7 countries and conducts trials of patient-centered tools to support coping with scleroderma. Among his over 250 peer-reviewed publications, Dr. Thombs has authored &gt; 80 on patient experiences and outcomes in scleroderma. He has been PI on over $3.5 million in funding for patient-oriented research in scleroderma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The SPIN team consists of professionals with a wide variety of backgrounds, patient advocates, trainees, and support staff. For more information about these individuals, please click the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/spinsclero.com\/en\/teams-committees\">https:\/\/spinsclero.com\/en\/teams-committees<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Dr. Brett Thombs, Director of SPIN &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dr. Thombs and his team focus on developing strategies to improve quality of life and reduce disability among people living with scleroderma. He is the Founder and Director of the Scleroderma Patient-centered Intervention Network (SPIN), a patient-researcher collaboration that maintains an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-researcher-profiles-the-scleroderma-patient-centered-intervention-network-spin","category-the-scleroderma-patient-centered-intervention-network-spin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Brett Thombs - Biography - Scl\u00e9rodermie Qu\u00e9bec<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/en\/dr-brett-thombs-biography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Brett Thombs - Biography - Scl\u00e9rodermie Qu\u00e9bec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; Dr. Brett Thombs, Director of SPIN &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dr. Thombs and his team focus on developing strategies to improve quality of life and reduce disability among people living with scleroderma. 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