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family doctor, social worker

a lifetime of social impact

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MEET DR. GREATHEART

Marcus Greatheart is a family physician, registered social worker, author and doctor-patient communication specialist who works with some of Canada’s most vulnerable populations.

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Treating the unseen

Healthcare equity, in scrubs and on the street

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1989

Dropped out of high school due to homophobia

I dropped out of high school due to relentless homophobic bullying. Started undergrad degree at 30, and MD at 40. So now it’s Dr. Faggot, thank you very much. https://t.co/uD5LmyGjLN
— Marcus Greatheart MD MSW (@DrMarcusG) December 17, 2018

1992

Coordinated Vancouver LGBTQ+ youth group

1993

Created program for queer youth sexual health education

1994

Co-founded Canada’s first youth-for-youth AIDS organization, Youthco

1997

Street outreach for HIV/AIDS prevention to high risk gay & bisexual men in sex work and public sex spaces

2007

Began UBC Masters of Social Work program

2009

Graduate research focused on barriers to healthcare for transgender patients

2011

Began McMaster Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine

2013

Published Transforming Practice: Life Stories of Transgender Men that Change How Health Providers Work

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2015

Graduated Medical school

Published The Contemporary HIV Zeitgeist

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2017

Completed medical residency at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver with focus on addiction and mental illness

2021

PHC Mission Awards

2022

Relocated to rural Vancouver Island with beekeeper husband

Providing primary care to patients experiencing homelessness with Street Medicine program

resources

Trans Care B.C. Primary Care Toolkit

FREE RESOURCE

Impacts of the Opioid Crisis on Elders

My Obese Gay Patient Just Told Me He Is A Bear

CASE STUDY

People who use drugs get cancer, too

FREE RESOURCE

Ninety Seconds

Burnout & Compassion Fatigue

TRANSFORMING PRACTICE

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How to Diagnose gender dysphoria

HEALING A CRISIS TAKES A COMMUNITY

YOU DON’T NEED TO GO TO MED SCHOOL TO HAVE AN IMPACT