Dominique Vervoort

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ABOUT DOMINIQUE VERVOORT

Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH, CPH, MBA is a PhD Candidate in Health Services Research at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, focusing on Health Technology Assessment in cardiac surgery. In this capacity, he has been awarded the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship and the Dr. Jack V. Tu Memorial Award for Excellence. He is further pursuing an MSt in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford to dive deeper into resource allocation ethics in healthcare decisionmaking. He previously 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. 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 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. Dominique is Co-Founder and Past Chair of InciSioN - International Student Surgical Network, the world\'s largest global surgery trainee organization worldwide with over members in over 100 countries. He serves as an Advisor for the Global Surgery Foundation, Advisor for the Johns Hopkins Global Surgery Initiative, Board Member for the Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, and co-Founder of the Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery. Dominique has published over 200 peer-reviewed publications in leading medical and surgical journals, 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, and MedPage Today.