Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté is a Hungarian-born Canadian physician specializing in addiction treatment and mind-body health connections.

Born in 1944, he survived the Nazi genocide and immigrated to Canada in 1957.

After teaching English, he pursued medicine and ran a family practice in East Vancouver for over 20 years.

Maté also worked in palliative care and currently serves as a staff physician at the Portland Hotel, treating patients with mental illness, drug addiction, and HIV. He has written about his experiences with addicts and made headlines defending physicians working at Insite, a supervised safe injection site.

Maté's unique perspective on Attention Deficit Disorder and his belief in the mind-body health connection have gained him wide recognition.