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155 College St 4th Floor
Toronto, Ontario M5T 3M6, Canada
Baltimore, MD 21231Phone+1 416-989-7874
Summary
- Dominique Vervoort, MD, MPH, CPH, MBA is a PhD in Health Services Research student at the Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation at the University of Toronto, focusing on Health Technology Assessment in cardiac surgery. 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. Previously, Dominique completed the Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellowship at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. His past research focus and expertise lies within National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plans (NSOAPs) in Pakistan and West-Africa, and scaling cardiac surgery services in low- and middle-income countries.
Dominique has introduced the concept of global cardiac surgery to literature and established the organisation Global Cardiac Surgery to advocate for the nearly six billion people worldwide without access to cardiac surgical care. Clinically, as an aspiring cardiac surgeon, his interests lie in aortic and congenital heart surgery outcomes and disparities in accessing cardiac care.
Dominique is Co-Founder, Past Chair, and current Trustee of InciSioN - International Student Surgical Network, the world's largest global surgery trainee organization worldwide with over 5,000 members in over 80 countries. He has given lectures and facilitated workshops on youth engagement in global surgery at conferences around the world and represented the trainee voice in global surgery at high-level forums, such as the World Health Assembly, United Nations General Assembly, and Universal Health Coverage Forum. 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, Permanent Council Member for the G4 Alliance, and co-Founder of the Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery.
Education & Training
- University of TorontoPhD, Health Services Research, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2021 - 2025
- Harvard Medical SchoolCertificate, Effective Writing for Health Care, 2021 - 2022
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Johns Hopkins Carey Business SchoolMPH/MBA, Health Policy and Management; Health Care Management, 2019 - 2021
- Catholic University of LeuvenClass of 2018
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship Canadian Institutes of Health Research, 2022
- Dr. Jack V. Tu Memorial Award for Excellence Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation (University of Toronto), 2022
- Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health Induction Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, 2021
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Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 85 citationsCritical care capacity during the COVID-19 pandemic: Global availability of intensive care beds.Xiya Ma, Dominique Vervoort
Journal of Critical Care. 2020-08-01 - 112 citationsGlobal cardiac surgery: Access to cardiac surgical care around the worldDominique Vervoort, Bart Meuris, Bart Meyns, Peter Verbrugghe
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2020-03-01 - 14 citationsGlobal cardiac surgery: a wake-up call.Dominique Vervoort
European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. 2019-05-01
Authored Content
- How a Heart Procedure Can Save Millions of Dollars and Lives Each YearApril 2021
Press Mentions
- How a Heart Procedure Can Save Millions of Dollars and Lives Each YearApril 27th, 2021
- Op-Ed: Meet the Law Office Leeching off the PandemicMarch 15th, 2021
- 1 Brazilian Journal of Cardiovascular SurgeryNovember 19th, 2020
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Other Languages
- Dutch, Japanese, French, Swahili, German, Spanish
External Links
- Global Cardiac Surgeryhttp://www.globalcardiacsurgery.com
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