Gabor Maté is a retired physician with 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience. He worked for over a decade in Vancouver's Downtown East Side treating patients with addiction and mental illness. Maté has written four books translated into 27 languages, focusing on addiction, trauma, childhood development, and the relationship between stress and illness. His work includes In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction, When the Body Says No, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, and The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. He has received the Order of Canada and is affiliated with Upaya Zen Center.