Integrated Community Program

Research Administrative Assistant: Tilley Creary
Fax: 416-480-6048
Email: tilley.creary@sunnybrook.ca

Education:

• BSc Hon, 2004, Nutrition Sciences, University of Toronto (UofT), Canada
• MD, 2008, UofT, Canada
• PhD, Clinical Epidemiology, Institute of Health Policy Management and Evaluation, UofT, Canada
• Surgical Scientist Program, 2011-2018, Cardiovascular Surgery, UofT, Canada
• CCFP-EM, 2022, Emergency Medicine, UofT, Canada

Appointments and Affiliations:

• Staff Emergency Physician, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
• Scientist, Evaluative Clinical Sciences, Integrated Community Research Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute
• Assistant Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine - Division of Emergency Medicine, Temerty School of Medicine, UofT
• Member, Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians (CAEP)
• Top New investigator, CAEP, 2024
• Member, Canadian Cardiovascular Society

Research Foci:

• Cardiovascular emergencies
• Identifying and addressing health inequities
• Methodology: Clinical Trials, Administrative Database Research, Cross-Collaboration

Research Summary:

Dr. Deb's research focuses on the quality of care provided to patients with cardiovascular emergencies both while arriving to the emergency department (prehospital medicine) and in the emergency department. He is particularly interested in ischemic heart disease, valvular disease, life-threatening arrhythmias, and congestive heart failure. Further, he is interested in understanding, identifying, and addressing healthcare system inequities so that everyone can get the same level of high quality care, irrespective of their sociodemographic background.

Selected Publications:

See current publication list at PubMed. 

1. Saswata Deb, Harindra C. Wijesundera, Dennis T. Ko, Hideki Tsubota, Samantha Hill and Stephen E. Fremes. Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery versus Percutaneous Coronary Interventions in Coronary Revascularization. A Systematic Review. 2013;310(19):2086-95. Impact factor 157.3.
2. Saswata Deb, Jerome Leis, Stephanie Mason. Five Things to Know About: Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections Necrotizing soft-tissue infections caused by invasive group A Streptococcus. Accepted by CMAJ. August 2024.
3. Saswata Deb, Ian Drennan, Linda Turner, Sheldon Cheskes. Association of coronary angiography with ST-elevation and no ST-elevation in patients with refractory ventricular fibrillation - A substudy of the DOuble SEquential External Defibrillation for Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (DOSE-VF randomized control trial). Resuscitation. 2024 May;198:110163. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2024.110163. Epub 2024 Mar 4. PMID: 38447909.
4. Saswata Deb, Maneesh Sud, Natalie Coburn, Angela Jerath, Mehras Motamed, Baiju Shah, Javal Sheth, Dennis Ko. Race and Ethnicity Research in Cardiovascular Disease in Canada: Challenges and Opportunities. Can J Cardiol. 2024 Jun;40(6):1172-1175. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2024.02.001. Epub 2024 Feb 9. PMID: 38342293.
5. Saswata Deb, Maneesh Sud, Harindra Wijeysundera. If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It: Data Collection and Standards in the Evaluation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease. Can J Cardiol. 2023 Jul;39(7):933-935. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2023.05.003. Epub 2023 May 11. PMID: 37178760.
6. Saswata Deb, Maneesh Sud, Harindra Wijeysundera. If You Can't Measure It, You Can't Improve It: Data Collection and Standards in the Evaluation of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease. Can J Cardiol. 2023 Jul;39(7):933-935. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2023.05.003. Epub 2023 May 11. PMID: 37178760.
7. Saswata Deb, Eric A. Cohen, Steve K. Singh, Andreas Laupacis, Dai Une and Stephen E. Fremes for the RAPS Investigators. Radial Artery and Saphenous Vein Patency more than 5 Years After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: Results from the Randomized Multicentre Radial Artery Patency Study. Journal of American College of Cardiology. 2012;60(1):28-35. Impact factor 24.094.
8. Saswata Deb, Peter C. Austin, Jack V. Tu, Dennis T. Ko, C. David Mazer, Alex Kiss and Stephen E. Fremes. A Review of Propensity Score Methods and their use in Cardiovascular Research. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 2016;32(2):259-65.
9. Deb S, Leis JA, Mason SA. Necrotizing soft-tissue infections caused by invasive group A Streptococcus. CMAJ. 2024 Nov 11;196(38):E1291. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.240267. PMID: 39532473; PMCID: PMC11573382.
10. Zhang CYK, Dou A, Pandya BU, Srinivasan S, Campbell C, Tang J, Shi W, Deb S, Sud M, McNaughton CD, Ko DT. Noninvasive Cardiac Testing and Cardiovascular Outcomes for Low-Risk Chest Pain in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. CJC Open. 2024 Jul 2;6(10):1178-1188. doi: 10.1016/j.cjco.2024.06.009. PMID: 39525340; PMCID: PMC11544267.