PhD Student
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Dr. Dominique Vervoort 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 and supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. He completed his MD at the KU Leuven and his MPH/MBA dual degree at the Johns Hopkins University 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 with Ministries of Health on National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plans in Pakistan and West Africa, and studying access to cardiac surgical care around the world.
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. In recognition of this, Dominique was named an Emerging Leader by the World Heart Federation. 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 and Past Chair of InciSioN - International Student Surgical Network, 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 written widely on global and public health disparities, and has been featured in the New York Times, the BMJ, JAMA, Al Jazeera, Devex, and MedPage Today.
Thursday, October 27, 2022
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM EDT
Friday, October 28, 2022
3:15 PM – 4:15 PM EDT
Saturday, October 29, 2022
9:45 AM – 10:45 AM EDT
Saturday, October 29, 2022
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM EDT