Dr. Deborah Assayag
Academic title(s):
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Member, Division of Experimental Medicine
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Current research:
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 with a heavy burden of morbidity and mortality. 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.
Projects:
- Project on racial and gender-based disparities in ILD care, from diagnosis to treatment and death, for which I have access to two large prospective cohorts of 5000 patients. The data is ready to be used.
- How autoimmunity influences interstitial lung disease on histopathology: looking at immune cells in the lungs in patients with autoimmune related ILD who have had surgical lung biopsies.
- Qualitative research on identifying patient and physician’s attitudes towards gender-based differences in care of ILD.
Selected publications:
Research areas:
Epidemiology
Respiratory diseases
Rheumatology