Consultant Thoracic Physician

Deborah Yates is a Respiratory Physician in the Department of Thoracic Medicine at the St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and a Conjoint Associate Professor at the University of NSW. She has a longstanding clinical and research interest in obstructive lung disease, including asthma, COPD and lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM), and also in occupational lung disorders. She has published widely in the field of asthma and occupational lung disease including asbestos-related disorders and occupational asthma.

Deborah’s current research interests also include the development of non-invasive methods for assessing lung disease, including the use of exhaled nitric oxide as a clinical tool for assessing asthma.