Gabor Maté is a medical doctor and author in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has worked in family practice, palliative medicine, and addiction medicine. Currently he is staff physician at a facility for drug addicted persons in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side, many of them with HIV. His special interest is impact of early childhood experience on lifelong emotional and  physical health. Dr. Maté has written four nationally bestselling books in Canada, most  recently In The Realm of  Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction.