Mona-Rita Yacoub

Post-doctoral Fellow
Director: JL Malo, MD
Research Centre, Sacre-Coeur Hospital 
Telephone : (514) 338-2222 # 3383
E-mail: mona-rita.yacoub@umontreal.ca

1. MSc, Biomedical Sciences, 2004 - present, Université de Montréal
2. Fellow, Allergology and Clinical Immunology, 2002 - present, Pavia (Italy)
3. MD, Doctor in Medicine, 2002, Milan (Italy)

• Asthma in the Workplace Centre Graduate Fellowship (CIHR), Sacré-Coeur Hospital, 2004

• Physician in the Allergy and Immunology Department of the “Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri”, Scientific Institute for Research and Care, since 2002.

To develop my theorical knowlwdge and my practical experience about occupational asthma in a multidisciplinary research group. The dayly contact with a competent and enthousiastic team is stimulant and educative for reaching these objectives. To develop the management of a research project. To create solid collaboration contact for the future, to strengthen the already existing relationship between Italy and Canada

M-R Yacoub, L Perfetti, E Galdi, P Pignatti, G Moscato; Descrizione di un caso clinico di una paziente con angioedema ereditario diagnosticato in età avanzata; Giorn It Allergol Immunol Clin 2004;14:90-92. L perfetti, E Galdi, M-R Yacoub, I Giorni,A Andreoli, G Moscato; Psychological factors in chronic urticaria / angioedema. EACCI, Annual congress 2004, accepted. E Galdi, G Calcagno, M Poppa, M Ferrari, M-R Yacoub, G Moscato; Skin prick tests in methylprednisolone allergy, Allergy, submitted (2004) P Pignatti, G Moscato, A Balestrino, M-R Yacoub, M Delmastr, G Brunetti, S Nava, B Balbi . A new biological sample: tracheal aspirates from tracheostomized patients. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress 2004, accepted. P Pignatti, G Moscato, M-R Yacoub, M Fiori, B Balbi, A Balestrino, G Cervio, S Nava; The expression of the chemokine receptors CXCR3 and CCR4 on T cells reflects the TH2 switch in the lung of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IFP) patients. European Respiratory Society Annual Congress 2004, accepted. G Moscato, P Pignatti, M-R Yacoub, L Perfetti; Occupational asthma and occupational rhinitis in hairdressers. AJRCCM, submitted (2004)