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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

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

2009

2015

Graduated Medical school 

Published The Contemporary HIV Zeitgeist

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

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HEALING A CRISIS TAKES A COMMUNITY

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

I live and work on the unceded territory of the Laichwiltach people, the We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum and Kwaikah First Nations, for which I am truly grateful.

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I live and work on the unceded territory of the Laichwiltach people, the We Wai Kai, Wei Wai Kum and Kwaikah First Nations, for which I am truly grateful.

Copyright 2023 Marcus Greatheart MD MSW | Privacy Policy