Gabor Maté
Dr. Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician born in Budapest in 1944 and a Holocaust survivor whose family members perished in Auschwitz.
He emigrated to Canada in 1957, eventually pursuing medicine after teaching English.
Maté practiced family medicine in East Vancouver for over twenty years and coordinated palliative care at Vancouver Hospital.
He currently serves as staff physician at Portland Hotel, working with patients facing addiction, mental illness, and HIV. Maté specializes in addiction treatment and advocates for understanding connections between mind and body health.
He's also known for his work on Attention Deficit Disorder and defended supervised injection sites.
