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Doruk Ozgediz M.D., MSc
- Professor of Surgery
- Division of Pediatric Surgery
- Director, Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity
Contact Information
415-476-2538 Pediatric Surgery Office
415-476-9454 Institute for Global Health Sciences
doruk.ozgediz@ucsf.edu
415-476-9454 Institute for Global Health Sciences
doruk.ozgediz@ucsf.edu
Education
1991 - 1995 Harvard University, Cambridge BA Economics
1996 - 2000 University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco MD
2003 - 2004 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, M Sc. Public Health in Developing Countries
Residencies
- 2000 - 2001 University of California, San Francisco Internship General Surgery
- 2001 - 2006 University of California, San Francisco Residency General Surgery
- 2006 - 2007 University of California, San Francisco Chief Resident General Surgery
Clinical Expertise
- Congenital Anomalies
- Neonatal Surgery
- Pediatric Minimally Invasive Surgery
- Pediatric Surgical Oncology
- Pediatric Trauma
Research Interests
- Burden of Disease
- Economic Evaluation
- Epidemiology
- Global Surgery
- Health Disparities
- Health Equity
- Health Services
- Implementation Research
- Surgical Education
Foreign Languages Spoken
- English, Turkish, Spanish, Mandarin, French
Biography
Doruk Ozgediz M.D., MSc is Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF, Director of the UCSF Center for Global Surgery and Health Equity, and in the leadership team of the Institute for Global Health Sciences. He trained in medicine at UCSF and completed a general surgery residency at UCSF before pursuing a pediatric surgery fellowship at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto. Dr. Ozgediz also completed a Master's of Science in Public Health in Developing Countries at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dr. Ozgediz became involved in surgical collaborations in Uganda in 2003 and since then has been part of multiple collaborations to strengthen surgery and anesthesia care there and in the region, mostly through support of capacity-building initiatives.
He is a co-founder of the Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery (GPAS) collaboration, focused in Uganda, as well as the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS). He is also on the advisory board of KIDS OR, an international charity dedicated to strengthening surgery and perioperative care in low resource settings.
Dr. Ozgediz's research focuses on global equity in surgical services, and spans clinical surgery and outcomes, along with work on the burden of disease, barriers to care, and effectiveness of interventions to advance surgical care globally and integrate surgical services with public health. He came to UCSF from Yale, where he had directed global surgery programs. At UCSF he will also be associated with the HEAL initiative and fellowship focused on global health equity.
Research Overview
Dr. Ozgediz has focused on scholarship related to strengthening access to surgical care for vulnerable populations mostly in low-income countries. He has had a longstanding relationship with colleagues in Uganda since 2003 and spent 2007-2008 living and working there. His collaborative scholarly activity has characterized the burden of surgical disease, outcomes, workforce gaps, and access strategies tailored to the limited-resource setting. he has led multiple collaborative teams to develop training courses and curricula geared for the low resource setting.
Dr. Ozgediz has been a part of multiple groups advancing global surgery such as the Bellagio Essential Surgery Group and the Burden of Surgical Disease Working Group in 2008, that subsequently became the Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia Presence (ASAP), and through contributions to Disease Control Priorities third Edition. He also has worked closely with groups such as Global Partners in Anesthesia and Surgery (GPAS) and the Global Initiative for Children's Surgery (GICS) to evaluate interventions to strengthen surgical capacity in LMIC. He helped lead the Optimal Resources for Children's Surgery (ORECS) guidelines for children's surgery in LMIC and also works closely with the KIDS OR charity in implementation for children's surgery in LMIC and their Africa 2030 initiative.
Publications
MOST RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM A TOTAL OF 137
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- Tang Z, Kayondo D, Ullrich SJ, Namugga M, Muwanguzi P, Klazura G, Ozgediz D, Armstrong-Hough M. Clinical Practices Following Train-The-Trainer Trauma Course Completion in Uganda: A Parallel-Convergent Mixed-Methods Study. World J Surg. 2023 Mar 05. View in PubMed
- Kakembo N, Grabski DF, Situma M, Ajiko M, Kayima P, Nyeko D, Shikanda A, Okello I, Tumukunde J, Nabukenya M, Ogwang M, Kisa P, Muzira A, Ruzgar N, Fitzgerald TN, Sekabira J, Ozgediz D. Met and Unmet Need for Pediatric Surgical Access in Uganda: A Country-Wide Prospective Analysis. J Surg Res. 2023 Feb 02; 286:23-34. View in PubMed
- Kilyewala C, Ozgediz D. Inspirational Women in Surgery: Dr. Jane Fualal Odubu, Uganda. World J Surg. 2023 Jan; 47(1):37-39. View in PubMed
- Laverde R, Ozgediz D. Inspirational Women in Surgery: Professor Kokila Lakhoo, South Africa. World J Surg. 2022 12; 46(12):2848-2849. View in PubMed
- Elmaraghi S, Min Park K, Rashidian N, Yap A, Faktor K, Ozgediz D, Borgstein E, Bekele A, Alseidi A, Tefera G. Postgraduate Surgical Education in East, Central, and Southern Africa: A Needs Assessment Survey. J Am Coll Surg. 2023 02 01; 236(2):429-435. View in PubMed
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In the News
- UCSF General Surgery Residency Program - - October 16, 2020A recent study published in the British Journal of Surgery by Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH and a team of researchers at Lifebox, showed a dramatic reduction in the risk of surgical site infections (SSIs) after implementing Clean Cut, a quality improvement program that helps surgical teams address the causes of SSIs. The study, Outcomes Following Implementation of Clean Cut, an Adaptive, Multimodal Surgical Infection Prevention Program for Low Resource Settings: A Prospective Quality Improvement [...]
- UCSF General Surgery Residency Program - - August 18, 2020Nichole Starr, M.D., MPH, a general surgery research resident, was awarded an NIH Fogarty Global Health Scholars Fellowship for the 2020-21 year. Dr. Starr will spend her fellowship year at Addis Ababa University in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia under the mentorship of Milliard Derbew, M.D., Tom Weiser, M.D., MPH, Andi Tenner, M.D., MPH, and Doruk Ozgediz, M.D., MSc. Her research will focus on building and implementing trauma quality improvement programs in Ethiopian public hospitals. Dr. Starr's team [...]