Join a multi-chapter HIMSS Advocacy Education event featuring author @DrGaborMate & #TheMythofNormal discussing social determinants of health. This multi-chapter collaboration is sponsored by #HIMSSSoCal, #ColoradoHIMSS #HIMSSOR, #HIMSSWA and #GAHIMSS

Gabor Maté (pronounced GAH-bor MAH-tay) is a retired physician who, after 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience, worked for over a decade in Vancouver’s Downtown East Side with patients challenged by drug addiction and mental illness. The bestselling author of four books published in thirty languages, Gabor is an internationally renowned speaker highly sought after for his expertise on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship of stress and illness. His book on addiction received the Hubert Evans Prize for literary non-fiction. For his ground-breaking medical work and writing he has been awarded the Order of Canada, his country’s highest civilian distinction, and the Civic Merit Award from his hometown, Vancouver. His books include In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction; When the Body Says No; Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection; Scattered: How ADD Originates and What You Can Do About It; and (with Gordon Neufeld) Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers; the International Best-Seller, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. To learn more, join his e-news here: https://www.drgabormate.com.