Doruk Ozgediz MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatrics) and of Pediatrics

Departments & Organizations

Pediatrics: Pediatric Surgery

Surgery: Pediatric Surgery

Research Interests

Global health; Global surgery; Health disparities; Access to care; Burden of surgical disease; Partnerships and collaboration; Uganda; Capacity-building; Pediatric surgery

Education

• M.Sc., London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, 09/2004
• M.D., University of California at San Francisco, 2000

Selected Publications

• D Ozgediz, K Chu, N Ford, G Dubowitz, AG Bedada, G Azzie, JT Gerstle, R Riviello, “Surgery in Global Health Delivery” Mt. Sinai J Med 2011 78(3) 327-41. Kelly McQueen, Doruk Ozgediz, Robert Riviello, Renee Hsia, Sudha Jayaraman, Steven Sullivan, John Meara “Essential surgery: integral to the right to health’” Health and Human Rights Journal (2010) 12:1 137-152 S Luboga, M Galukande, J Mabweijano, D Ozgediz, S Jayaraman “Key aspects of health policy development to improve surgical services in Uganda” World Journal of Surgery (2010) 34:11 2511-17. S. Jayaraman, J. Mabweijano, M. Lipnick, N. Caldwell, J. Miyamoto, C. Mijumbi, R. Hsia, R. Dicker, D. Ozgediz “First things first: Effectiveness and Scalability of a Basic Prehospital Trauma Care Program for Lay First-Responders in Kampala, Uganda” PLOS One 2009 Sept 11: 4(9) e6955. D Ozgediz, M Cherian, D Jamison, K McQueen “The burden of surgical conditions and access to surgical care in low and middle income countries” Bulletin of the World Health Organization (2008) Aug 86(8) 646-7 Doruk Ozgediz, Moses Galukande, Jacqueline Mabweijano, et al. “The Neglect of the Global Surgical Workforce: Experience and Evidence from Uganda” World Journal of Surgery 2008 Jun 32(6) : 1208-15.