Saswata Deb

MD, PhD
Emergency physician, Clinician-scientist
sas.deb@utoronto.ca
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Phone: 416-480-6100 ext. 7834

Research Assistant:

Tilley Creary
Phone: 16-480-6048
Email: tilley.creary@sunnybrook.ca

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.

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

Publications

Affiliated Labs & Programs

Selected Publications

  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.