{"id":18091,"date":"2020-08-09T16:17:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T15:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/?p=18091"},"modified":"2024-03-14T10:31:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T14:31:45","slug":"dr-deborah-assayag-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/en\/dr-deborah-assayag-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Deborah Assayag &#8211; Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/dr-deborah-assayag\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18076\" src=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Dr.-Deborah-Assayag.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content\">Pulmonologist<br \/>\nJunior Scientist, RI-MUHC , Montreal General Hospital<br \/>\n<span class=\"riMuhcProgram\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rimuhc.ca\/translational-research-in-respiratory-diseases-program\">Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>Centre for Innovative Medicine<br \/>\nAssistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University<br \/>\nDepartment of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, MUHC<\/p>\n<p class=\"content padding-left10\">My research focuses on interstitial lung diseases (ILD), a group of progressive, devastating lung diseases characterized by inflammation and scarring (fibrosis) of the lung tissue. The burden of disease is heavy: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, the most devastating form of ILD, has a median survival of only three to five years. The incidence and societal burden of ILD are increasing over time. Unfortunately, the right diagnosis is often initially missed or delayed, which will affect long term prognosis. Certain medications have been shown to slow the decline in lung function, but differences in treatment initiation can occur for reasons that remain largely unknown. My research program aims to identify discrepancies and delays in the care of patients with ILD from diagnosis to management, identify the risk factors for those delays, predict disease progression and explore the use of certain medications in understudied populations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"SubTitle\">Selected Publications<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"content bold\">Click on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/sites\/myncbi\/1zwOEDpbeeiwxg\/bibliography\/57077132\/public\/?sort=date&amp;direction=ascending\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pubmed\" src=\"https:\/\/rimuhc.ca\/documents\/10803\/74539\/pubmed-logo.png\/7de81508-2adf-4fbf-a77d-92f03b10385d?t=1536085844000\" alt=\"Pubmed\" \/>\u00a0<\/a>to see my current publications list<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pulmonologist Junior Scientist, RI-MUHC , Montreal General Hospital Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program Centre for Innovative Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, MUHC My research focuses on interstitial lung diseases (ILD), a group of progressive, devastating lung diseases characterized by inflammation and [&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":[59,2,61,62,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-scleroderma-research-group","category-non-classe-en","category-other-research-groups","category-researcher-profiles","category-researcher-profiles-canadian-scleroderma-research-group"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dr. Deborah Assayag - 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-deborah-assayag-biography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dr. Deborah Assayag - Biography - Scl\u00e9rodermie Qu\u00e9bec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pulmonologist Junior Scientist, RI-MUHC , Montreal General Hospital Translational Research in Respiratory Diseases Program Centre for Innovative Medicine Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, MUHC My research focuses on interstitial lung diseases (ILD), a group of progressive, devastating lung diseases characterized by inflammation and [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/en\/dr-deborah-assayag-biography\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Scl\u00e9rodermie Qu\u00e9bec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SclerodermieQuebec\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-08-09T15:17:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-14T14:31:45+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/sclerodermie.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Dr.-Deborah-Assayag.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Carole Comtois\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Carole Comtois\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sclerodermie.ca\\\/en\\\/dr-deborah-assayag-biography\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sclerodermie.ca\\\/en\\\/dr-deborah-assayag-biography\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Carole Comtois\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sclerodermie.ca\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/268ca8047bb4a909f4684ebb078c50a6\"},\"headline\":\"Dr. Deborah Assayag &#8211; 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