Dr Michael Anderson

Medical Director, Inner City Health Associates, Canada

Dr. Michael Anderson is part of the urban Indigenous community in Tkaronto/Toronto. He is
Mohawk (Bear Clan) and mixed European ancestry with family roots in Tyendinaga Mohawk
Territory. He practices surgical oncology and palliative care medicine. He serves as the Strategic
Lead for the Indigenous Health Program at the University Health Network and is also the
Medical Director at Inner City Health Associates (Toronto), an agency providing healthcare to
vulnerable and unhoused people in Toronto. He is a senior researcher at the Waakebiness
Institute for Indigenous Health in the Dalla Lana School of Public Health (U of T) and a UHN
Wilson Centre Scholar. He previously served as an Indigenous Cancer Lead and a Surgical
Oncology Lead at Cancer Care Ontario.