D r. Gabor Maté, M.D. is a physician, author, seminar leader and public speaker. He is a former medical columnist for The Vancouver Sun and The Globe and Mail. His four books, are all Canadian bestsellers and his work has been translated into over sixteen languages on five continents. The most recently published, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction has been a #1 national bestseller and has been awarded the Hubert Evans prize for literary non-fiction. It is published in the U.S. in January, 2010. For twenty years Dr. Maté had a family practice, and for seven years was Medical Coordinator of the Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. For the past eleven years he has worked in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside with patients challenged by hard core drug addiction, mental illness and HIV. He has lectured at several universities and colleges in the U.S. and Canada and has addressed many groups of physicians and health care providers, educators, law professionals, psychologists, therapists, parents, and other members of the lay public.
In 2009 Dr. Maté was honoured with an Outstanding Alumnus Award from Palliative Care Unit at Vancouver Hospital. His next book, to be published in 2010, will be The Bully Syndrome: The Making and Unmaking of Bullies and Victims, co-written with developmental psychologist Dr. Gordon Neufeld.
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