JOSH KAMSTRA

Josh Kamstra

About Dr. Joshua Ng-Kamstra

Joshua Ng-Kamstra is a surgical resident at the University of Toronto and a former Paul Farmer Global Surgery Fellow at Harvard Medical School. He obtained his medical degree from McGill University in 2012, and started  training in General Surgery at the University of Toronto the same year. He holds a Master of Public Health Degree with a focus in Quantitative Methods from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He joined the research team of the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery in 2014, publishing manuscripts on access to emergency surgical services in India and on the diversity of nongovernmental organizations delivering surgical services worldwide. He also co-authored a roadmap for high-income country institutions seeking to contribute to movement for global surgical equity. In 2015, he coordinated a team of researchers gathering data on country-level essential surgical indicators, leading to the inclusion of surgical data within the World Bank’s data repository. He is currently in his final year of surgical residency, and will start a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine in July 2018. His research interests include health disparities, determinants of surgical outcomes, and expanding global capacity for the delivery of critical care.