Meet Professor Deborah Yates
Staff Specialist – Respiratory Medicine
MA, MB BChir, MSc, MD, AFOM(UK), Dip Occ Med (LSHTM), F Thor Soc, FRCP, FRACP
She completed an MSc in Occupational & Environmental Medicine and also the AFOM (UK) & Diploma in Occupational Medicine from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, while working for the London Pneumoconiosis Panel.
She also holds an MD from Cambridge University on the topic of asthma, including exhaled breath testing and fractional exhaled nitric oxide, based on research performed at the National Heart & Lung Institute in London. Since permanently moving to Australia, she has continued her research and clinical interest in rare lung disorders, occupational and obstructive lung diseases. She is a Senior Staff Specialist at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Conjoint Associate Professor at UNSW and Co-Chair of the Coal Mine Dust Lung Disease (CMDLD) Collaborative Group and is active in the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) and Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP). She is associated with the Black Lung Center of Excellent at Chicago, Illinois and involved in the training program for examining medical practitioners in Queensland.
Professor Yates publishes regularly in the fields of respiratory medicine and occupational lung disease and continues an active clinical practice.
