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, 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. Clinically, as an aspiring cardiac surgeon, his interests lie in aortic and congenital heart surgery outcomes and disparities in accessing cardiac care. Dominique was recognized as a Cardiovascular Clinical Trialists (CVCT)/National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Future Trialist Fellow ('22-'23) and a World Health Federation Emerging Leader ('22-'23). In 2023, Dominique received the Outstanding Service Award by the African Association of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons for his work in the space of global cardiac surgery.

​Dominique is Co-Founder, past Chair, and past Trustee of InciSioN - International Student Surgical Network, the world's largest global surgery trainee organization worldwide with over 8,000 members in over 100 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 currently serves as an Advisor for the Global Surgery Foundation, Advisor for the Johns Hopkins Global Surgery Initiative, 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 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 25 op-eds and over 250 scientific publications, and giving over 70 lectures at national and international conferences.

In his free time, Dominique enjoys weightlifting, yoga, bouldering, and (trail) running, and competes in obstacle course racing. To date, Dominique has completed four marathons and four ultramarathons, finished third (bronze) in the Spartan Race AG Canada National Series in 2023, and competed in the 2024 Spartan Morzine Ultra World Championship.