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Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH, MBA (he/him/his)

University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH, CPH, MBA is a PhD Candidate in Health Systems Research and Vanier Scholar at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto. In his PhD, Dominique is focusing on health technology assessment and access to cardiac surgery in Canada, and was awarded the Dr. Jack V. Tu Memorial Award for Excellence for his early doctoral work. Dominique is further pursuing a MSt in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, studying resource allocation ethics for access to cardiac surgery worldwide. He completed his MD at the KU Leuven and his MPH/MBA dual degree at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School as a Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation, and was inducted into the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health in recognition of his global and public health work throughout the pandemic. Dominique completed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, working on National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) in Pakistan and West Africa.

Dominique has introduced the concept of global cardiac surgery to literature and established the Global Cardiac Surgery Initiative to advocate for the nearly six billion people worldwide without access to cardiac surgical care, being named as a World Health Federation Emerging Leader. He currently serves as an Advisor for the Global Surgery Foundation and Medical Advisory Board Member for the Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts. Dominique has written widely on inequity and gender disparities within global health and surgery, and has been featured in the New York Times, the BMJ, JAMA, Al Jazeera, Devex, MedPage Today, and leading surgery journals, publishing over 20 op-eds and over 200 scientific publications.

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