Michaela Beder BA, MD, FRCPC

Biography

Dr. Michaela Beder is a psychiatrist at St. Michael's Hospital. Her work is focused on improving the system for, and providing care to, people who experience severe mental illness, homelessness, substance use, criminalization, and immigration related difficulties. She is the Mental Health Lead for Inner City Health Associates, and an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. She is the Equity and Social Justice Postgraduate Education Lead for the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Beder is also a community organizer working together with allies at Health Providers Against Poverty, the OHIP for All Campaign, Doctors for Defunding Police, and towards ending immigration detention.

About the Award

The Robert Sheppard Award for Health Equity and Social Justice was established in 2016 in honour of Dr. Robert Sheppard who served as Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medicine. Dr. Sheppard was deeply committed to volunteering initiatives in his community after retiring from medicine. This award recognizes the outstanding contributions of faculty members and postgraduate trainees in the development and/or implementation of activities, programs or research related to social justice and health equity in faculty development or postgraduate medical education.