PhD Candidate
University of Toronto, 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 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 an MSt in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, studying resource allocation ethics for access to cardiac surgery worldwide. He completed his MD at KU Leuven and his MPH/MBA at Johns Hopkins University 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 Harvard Medical School, working on National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anesthesia Plans in Pakistan and West Africa, and scaling cardiac surgical care in low- and middle-income countries.
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 was recognized as a World Health Federation Emerging Leader and received the Outstanding Service Award by the African Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons.
Dominique is Co-Founder and past Chair of InciSioN - International Student Surgical Network, Advisor for the Global Surgery Foundation, Advisor for the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Surgery, Medical Advisory Council Member for the Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, and co-Founder of the Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery. Dominique has been featured in the New York Times, the BMJ, JAMA, Al Jazeera, Devex, and more, publishing over 25 op-eds and over 250 scientific publications, and giving over 70 lectures at national and international conferences.